Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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, Julio Plaza draws a parallel between photography’s impact on nineteenth-century iconography and the current transformation with images that no longer depend on artisanal or mechanical systems, but rather on digital ones. Plaza senses [...]

In this essay, Eduardo Kac raises the possibility of a symbiosis between poetry and the visual arts, based on the use of new technologies in both of these art forms. He recounts the triumphs achieved by Concrete art when it presented the liberation [...]

In the 1980s, during the cultural and commercial phenomenon called the “return to painting,” according to the multimedia artist Mário Ramiro, tech-based art was one of the few kinds of art that was still inspired by a spirit of experimentation [...]