Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, curator María Luz Cárdenas provides a brief chronological overview of the work of Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales, placing Morales’s production in a timeframe that spans from 1988 to the mid-nineties. During that period, the [...]

In this text, Arlindo Machado analyzes the characteristics of the technological image, from the invention of photography to the computer and from Renaissance perspective to the synthesis of computer-generated images. Machado argues that in [...]

In this text, Arlindo Machado discusses the change in paradigm in cultural production due to the use of technology as an instrument in works of art. Images, sounds, objects, and events are now produced by means of automating algorithms of procedures [...]

In this essay, Arlindo Machado analyses the idea of technological “interactivity.” Quoting the art critic Raymond Williams, Machado states that it cannot be understood as a simple reaction, as a choice of options. He claims that it also implies [...]

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) [...]