Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture: Location and Latin American Net Art [Hardcover]

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 Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, the US-Mexico border, and the US. Each chapter explores how each artist represents place in their works, and, in particular how traditional place-based affiliations, or notions of territorial identity, end up reproduced, re-affirmed, or even transformed online. At the same time, the book explores how these net.artists make use of new media technologies to express alternative viewpoints about the locations they represent, and use the internet as a space for the recuperation of cultural memory.

Preface: Negotiating Net Art Communities in Latin America  1. Introduction: Re-articulating Place: The Resistant Use of Technologies and the Tactics of Re-territorialization in Latin(o) American Net Art  2. Memoria Hist?rica de la Alameda: The Mapping Out of Resistant Memory Battles in Chile  3. Sites of Memory in Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina  4. Re-Mapping Montevideo: Affective Cartographies and Post-Digital Remixes in Brian Mackern's 34s56w.org  5. Questioning Democracy and Re-encoding the Map of Colombia: Martha Patricia Ni?os Demo Scape V 0.5  6. Monopolies and Maquiladoras: The Resistant Re-encoding of Gaming in Cocol3±