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Author Taylor, Claire

Title Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture : Location and Latin American Net Art
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture.
Contents Re-articulating place: the resistant use of technologies and the tactics of re-territorialization in Latin(o) American net art -- Memoria história de la Alameda: the mapping out of memory battles in Chile -- Sites of memory in Women: memory of repression in Argentina -- Remapping Montevideo: affective cartographies and post-digital remixes in Brian Mackern's 34s56w.org -- Questioning democracy and re-encoding the map of Colombia: Martha Patricia Niño's Demo scape V 0.5 -- Monopolies and maquiladoras: the resistant re-encoding of gaming in Coco Fusco and Ricardo Domínguez's Turista fronterizo -- Re-signifying the border and the streets in Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga's Vagamundo: a migrant's tale -- Struggles over place: Latin(o) American net art as resistant praxis
Summary This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice. Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin America and within Latina/o communities in the US are studied in detail, with one each from Uru
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Subject Computer art -- Latin America
Art, Latin American -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Art, Latin American -- 21st century -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Art and the Internet -- Latin America
Place (Philosophy) in art.
Identity (Psychology) in art.
Art and the Internet
Art, Latin American -- Themes, motives
Computer art
Identity (Psychology) in art
Place (Philosophy) in art
Latin America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317912088
131791208X