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 anthology presents the first results of the research undertaken by the Núcleo de Tecnologia da Imagem at the EC-UFRJ (Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), as well as that by the Centre for Advanced Inquiry at the [...]

In this 1998 text, the São Paulo writer and artist Gilbertto Prado observes that art experimentation has been multiplying incessantly during the 1980s and 1990s. He points out the artistic use of various new ways of producing, distributing and [...]

The artist Suzete Venturelli discusses the different typologies of electronic art designed to create virtual environments that generate multi-sensory experiences. In her opinion, this new horizon in the field of artistic creativity radically [...]

Sociologist André Lemos analyzes cyberculture and artistic production that makes use of electronic and digital media. Art always expresses the imaginary of its time, subsequently postmodern art differs from high modernism insofar as it opts for [...]

This text is an interview by Simone Osthoff with artist Eduardo Kac on his work Rara Avis exhibitedat the first Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) in 1996. Kac points out the important role that new technologies play in the visual [...]

In this text, artist Eduardo Kac discusses the origin and role of “robotics” in contemporary art, which he argues must be considered in relation to video, performance, telecommunications art, and interactive installations. Though the first robots [...]

In this text, Gilbertto Prado discusses the impact that internet-based interactive devices have had on artistic creation, dwelling in particular on action art projects on the web that enable and seek the direct engagement of interested individuals. [...]

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In this 1983 essay, published in a book in 2006, Arlindo Machado describes videotext. Videotext preceded the Internet and, for the first time, “connectivity” and “interactivity” were available on public networks. The first [...]

In this text, critic Walter Zanini provides a context for the emergence of art influenced by electronic communication technologies in Brazil. He traces the origins of this sort of art to 1968, when painter and theorist Waldemar Cordeiro, in [...]

In this essay, São Paulo-based poet Augusto de Campos describes the diverse graphic elements—from the movable types and artisanal resources of conventional typography he used in 1953 to the Intergraph, a high-resolution graphic computer he used in [...]

In this text, artist Eduardo Kac discusses the emergence of digital art, which he considers at the margins of, or beyond, the models for production and reflection operative in conventional art. He asserts that art structured around technology and [...]

Waldemar Cordeiro considers how art envisioned as information is conveyed in the mass media. Cordeiro acknowledges that art has become less traditional; its scale has changed and it has moved beyond the context of galleries to enter the urban and [...]

The author— Waldemar Cordeiro, a pioneer in the use of computers as a vehicle for artistic expression—provides a brief history of computer generated art in Brazil and around the world. He compares aspects of new technologies to the challenges of [...]

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 [...]

The artist Rosa Irigoyen, who was born in Cuba and lives in Puerto Rico, calls digital technology an excellent resource for innovation in contemporary art. The use of technology is hardly without precedent in the history of art; in the seventeenth [...]