Fri 27 August 2010
10:00–12:00h
Orchesterzentrum|NRW, Dortmund

The Recent Histories of Electronic Culture in Latin America panel discusses the phenomena of media and technology in the 20th century.

1. 10:00h | Andres Burbano (co): Asuar Digital Analog Computer
2. 10:20h | Enrique Rivera (cl): Absolutum Obsoletum. If It Works It's Out of Date
3. 10:40h | Alejandro Duque (co): Maleficio. Rituals of the Illnatured
4. 11:00h | Lila Pagola (ar): From Free Software to Criticism on the Authorship Notion in Artistic Practices in Argentina
5. 11:20h | Simone Osthoff (br/us, Instituto Sergio Motta): Women, Art, and Technology in Brazil

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P43 Latin American Forum III: 
Recent Histories of Electronic Culture in Latin America (PDF, 265.24 KB)

Andres Burbano (co)

Asuar Digital Analog Computer

The paper focuses on the early development of COMDASUAR a digital and analog computer built by the composer and engineer José Vicente Asuar in Chile in 1978. This text is based on an on-line interview with Mr. Asuar in February of 2008. COMDASUAR is not only one of the first personal computers to work with sound but also a one of a kind personal computer

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Asuar Digital Analog Computer (PDF)

Andres Burbano, originally from Colombia, is Ph.D. Candidate in Media Arts and Technology from University of California Santa Barbara. Burbano explores the interactions of science, art and technology in various capacities: as researcher, as individual artist and in collaborations.

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Enrique Rivera (cl)

Absolutum Obsoletum. If It Works It's Out of Date

The lecture will review several historical landmarks in the history of technologies in Chile, cross-cutting the Cybersyn project, developed in Chile by the English cybernetician Stafford Beer for the government of President Salvador Allende, and the current methodologies and dynamics in Chile around the topics related with digital culture, e-government, autonomy and decentralisation.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Absolutum Obsoletum. If It Works It's Out of Date (PDF)

Enrique Rivera (1977) is a media artist and researcher from Chile, Director of Plataforma Cultura Digital, an art, science and technology lab from Santiago. His research labor focuses on the history of media art in South America and the implications of digital culture in developing countries.

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Alejandro Duque (co)

Maleficio. Rituals of the Illnatured

A short text on what could be one of the many other meanings of the so called lo-tech (concerning the South of America).

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Maleficio. Rituals of the Illnatured (PDF)

Alejandro Duque is a Colombian artist based in Switzerland and Ph.D. candidate at EGS. Passion drives Alejandro towards the attempt to interface place across all types of vectors and network protocols. While becoming the test ground.
Further Information: egs researcher at locusonus)

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Lila Pagola (ar)

From Free Software to Criticism on the Authorship Notion in Artistic Practices in Argentina

The model of production, circulation and reception promoted and put into practice by the free software movement, has evoked manifold responses among artists, since they are both creators of programs and users of digital tools. From a proto-copyleft background, to the interactions of FLOSS community with artists, this analysis intends to point out some interpretative keys about artistic practices linked with free software and culture, in a wide socio-cultural context including artistic practices within the art institution, but also those happening in the sphere of daily communication.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | From Free Software to Criticism on the Authorship Notion in Artistic Practices in Argentina (PDF)

Lila Pagola lives and works in Argentina. Educated in visual arts, she began experimenting with computer graphics and interactive design in the 90s. Her recent research focus on relationship between free software/culture and art, as a critical and interdisciplinary approach to artistic production.

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Simone Osthoff (br/us, Instituto Sergio Motta)

Women, Art, and Technology in Brazil

This paper examines pioneer accomplishments and contemporary works by Brazilian women media artists since the early 1960s ranging from electro-acoustic music to neon light, holography, cinema, experimental film, video, photography, multimedia performances and installations, virtual worlds, and Web-based cultural activism. While discussing the controversial issue of gender in Brazil, the paper weaves social, aesthetic, and epistemological concerns.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Women, Art, and Technology in Brazil (PDF)

Simone Osthoff, Associate Professor in the School of Visual Arts, Penn State University, focuses her research on new media art and historiography. She is the author of Performing the Archive: The Transformation of the Archive in Contemporary Art From Repository of Documents to Art Medium, 2009.

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