“Was Part of the Media Arts History Swept Under the Carpet? (Latin America’s Lost Ark)” presented by Farra
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- Archiving Digital Heritage Panel
Presentation Title:
- Was Part of the Media Arts History Swept Under the Carpet? (Latin America’s Lost Ark)
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Keywords: Latin America, Archiving, Electronic Art Preservation, Electroacoustic Music History, Cultural Decentralization
Who tells history? We can find multiple versions of electronic art history, most of them with subtle differences, but it has been unusual -until recently- to find references pointing to countries out of a small group from Europe and North America. Several projects have been developed to change that situation. The Latin American Electro-acoustic Music Collection, hosted by The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, represents an example of the relevant role that the archiving of electronic artworks and public access to them could have in forming another perspective about (electronic arts) history.
