Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This curatorial essay was written by the movie director and artist Juan Devis for the exhibition Net Art Colombia: es feo y no le gusta el Cursor [Net Art Colombia: It Is Ugly and Does Not Like the Cursor] (http://www.artenlared.org/index.htm) that [...]

This text is a record of the interview by journalist Beatriz Baltodano Esguerra of Colombian photographer Abdú Eljaiek, in which Eljaiek shares his thoughts on photography in Colombia. He begins by explaining his ideas on cinematography and [...]

This is the MEAT [the Spanish acronym for “electronic media and arts of the period”] report that was presented on December 5, 1997; it includes a description of the project, a proposal for a curriculum reform based on the electronic media and [...]

In June 2004, Alexandra Castellanos and Carolina Jaramillo—two students at the Universidad Javeriana’s School of Social Communication located in Bogotá—interviewed visual artist Carmen Gil Vrolijk as part of a degree project entitled “Arte [...]

The text “Meta-estéticas de disrupción” proposes an approach to the development of new social and power structures based on the dynamics of the production and distribution of knowledge worldwide. Its starting point is the proposal and [...]

The catalogue for the exhibition Video Arte explains aesthetic approaches linked to developing and consolidating a specific video-art language understood as a tool for creating art. This first exhibition came about based on research performed by the [...]

The synopsis and the annotations in English are coming soon.                                However, our bilingual readers can click on “Español” to access this information in Spanish [...]

The synopsis and the annotations in English are coming soon.                                However, our bilingual readers can click on “Español” to access this information in Spanish [...]

This is the report on the project Artelab: Laboratorios de Artes Electrónicas in which Colombian artist Juan Reyes attempts to create an inter-university space. The aim of the project, which was initially formulated in Bogotá, is to encourage the [...]

The composer and sound artist Juan Reyes seeks to contextualize and clarify a range of perceptions and problems concerning the use of the word “hacker,” tracing it back to its roots in Victorian England where it referred to a carpenter who used a [...]

This essay includes a chronological review of the emergence and development of electro-acoustic composition as an initial approach to the use of sound as an expressive visual art material in Colombia. Juan Reyes considers the European musical [...]

In this essay Juan Reyes expresses his opinion on what the contemporary artist “should be” in countries like Colombia, and on trans-disciplinary relationships as the basis for the development of knowledge. Throughout the essay, Reyes repeatedly [...]

In this article, the critic José Hernán Aguilar discusses an important date in Colombian history: April 9, 1948, the day when the political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán died, an event commonly referred to as El Bogotazo. Aguilar mentions the [...]

This article, which was published in the Revista Arte en Colombia [Art in Colombia Magazine] in 1981, discusses the Peruvian critic Juan Acha’s interest in the potential of video as an artistic medium. After reviewing video’s technical aspects, [...]

This text, “Software: ¿Arte?” [Software: Art?] is part of the book Hipercubo/ok/: arte, ciencia y tecnología en contextos próximos [Hypercube/ok/: Art, Science, and Technology in Neighboring Contexts] that was produced by Andrés Burbano and [...]

This text, “Arte y Diseño Multimedia: El cruce entre dos maneras de entender el mundo” [Multimedia Art and Design: The Intersection of Two Ways to Understand the World], is part of the compilation El Medio es el Diseño Audiovisual [The Medium [...]

The text “Traducción [ex machina]” addresses the relationship between automatic translation and artificial intelligence. It formulates a method for the collective construction of a global language for the sake of greater access to and the [...]