Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Lucia Santaella discusses the psychic resistance and barriers that human beings create—at an individual or institutional and social level—against every technical innovation. In her opinion, in the Postmodern (and/or postindustrial, posthistoric) [...]

Lucia Santaella uses the pretext of a work by São Paulo artist José Wagner Garcia to write one of her first critical texts (1982) on the then new image-reproduction technology—holography. Santaella explains the physical phenomenon that creates [...]

In this text, researcher Lucia Santaella formulates a study that identifies and examines the changes in paradigm for the production, storage, exhibition, and reception of the image in different registers of the human psyche. She associates the [...]