Autopoiesis in contemporary Bio-Arts in Mexico and Colombia

Abstract

In Latin America, the convergence of art, technology, and activism, alongside the environmental impact of globalization, has led to works addressing ecological themes. While constituting a new focus of digital art practices in the region, these works are best understood as critiques of, and as interventions into, the politics of technology--specifically, of the corporate control of technology, and the conjunction of digital technologies and transnational capital that has reshaped social, political, and cultural discourses in the region (and, of course, globally).