Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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 [...]

Gilbertto Prado outlines a chronological summary of events, from the 1970s to the early 1990s, that used telecommunications and telematics (data transmission networks) for artistic exchanges, including Brazilian initiatives during that period. He [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

In this text, São Paulo-based author and artist Gilbertto Prado reports on a project of art-related websites that engage, among other concepts, “space,” “architecture of construction,” “navigational structure,” “aesthetic composition [...]

In this essay, Carlos Fadon Vicente explores the concepts of “interactivity” and “telepresence” in the work of art, tracing back the etymology of the two terms to religious rites. In the author’s view, “telepresence” entails symbolic [...]

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) [...]

In this groundbreaking essay, Julio Plaza provides the reader with an overview of what was at the time, the very recent “video text” technology featured in a special section of the seventeenth São Paulo Biennial, a section that Plaza curated. He [...]

In this essay, Professor Walter Zanini discusses the impact caused by the use of computers and digital images, noting the profound changes in the creation and perception of “artistic events” that this new tool designed for creativity and [...]