Latin American Cyberculture

Thea and Claire recently participated in a virtual seminar series, Literaturas Plurales, jointly organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. The seminar series took the form of three collaborative events linking up Mexico … Continue reading »

At the beginning of April, Tori attended part of the 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and ICTM-Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast, which focused on the theme ‘Ethnomusicology in the Digital Age‘. As the conference website put it, ‘Increasingly, digital technologies are mediating people’s engagement with music, posing new challenges to … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is delighted to announce that Claire and Thea’s latest book, Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production has recently come out. Published with Routledge, it focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is pleased to announce that Thea and Claire have been invited to speak at the forthcoming seminar series, Literaturas Plurales, jointly organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. The seminar series forms … Continue reading »

Latamcyber welcomes a new postgraduate student who is working with Claire at Liverpool on a Latin American cybercultural topic. Shona Luton is researching the use of YouTube by a social movement active in Mexico and the US. Shona writes: “The collaborative project on Latin American Cyberculture is the ideal umbrella for the research project that … Continue reading »

On Tuesday 18th December Claire held a telepresence event in conjunction with members of the Veterans in Practice group, based in Liverpool. The event involved hooking up with the Argentine net.artist Marina Zerbarini for a live video interview over the internet, as well as live blogging. Questions were put to Marina by various members of the … Continue reading »

Last month Thea gave a paper at the Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas symposium which was organised by Charlotte Gleghorn (Royal Holloway, University of London) as part of the Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging research project, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Americas. Held at the Senate … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is pleased to announce that Claire has just had an article published in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, volume 18:2 (2012). Entitled ’Monopolies and Maquiladoras: The Resistant Re-encoding of Gaming in Coco Fusco and Ricardo Domínguez’s Turista Fronterizo’ the article forms part of Claire’s on-going project on Latin(o) American net.art, and focuses in … Continue reading »

As part of her AHRC-funded project ‘Latin American Cultural Production Online, from 1990 to the Present’, Claire will be running two events in December in conjunction with Veterans in Practice and Tenantspin. Veterans in Practice is a Liverpool-based community group coordinated by Angharad Williams that meets weekly and works with digital artists to produce creative projects. The first event … Continue reading »

A few days ago Claire was invited to give a clase-conferencia at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Held on Friday 9 November, the class formed part of the course, ‘Literatura Latinoamericana Reciente’ run by Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez, Profesor Titular del Departamento de Literatura, for the undergraduate degree in Estudios Literarios at that university. The students had first read … Continue reading »

In August, Claire was interviewed by Jaime Alejandro Rodriguez for the Colombian radio programme Hologramas Sociales, a radio programme which aims to bring issues from the social sciences, in the broadest sense, to a general public. The interview formed part of the series Monográfico sobre Latinoamérica, which focuses on new forms of expression within Latin … Continue reading »

Over the summer, Claire participated in a taller in conjunction with colleagues at the Universidad de Tres de Febrero in Argentina, who are working on a net.art project entitled Radiografía del Net.Art en Latinoamérica. Vitalidad creativa en riesgo de Extinción. Participants in the taller included Diego Dalla Benetta, Liliana Koselevich, Alejandro Schianchi and Marina Zerbarini, plus Ignacio Nieto connecting up … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is pleased to share the news that Tori Holmes, who completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool at the end of 2011, has taken up a post as Lecturer in Brazilian Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, as of September 2012. Tori is looking forward to developing her research and teaching in this new … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is pleased to announce that Claire has recently been awarded a grant from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to complete her monograph on Latin(o) American net.art. Entitled ‘Latin American Cultural Production Online, from 1990 to the Present ‘, the grant provides Claire with research leave until 1 May 2013 to work on the … Continue reading »

Towards the end of last month, Claire gave a talk at the Open Seminar Series run by the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Held on Monday 21 May, Claire’s talk was entitled Mapping the Americas Online: Latin(o) American net.art and the Aesthetic Production of Space and focused on the ways in which … Continue reading »

Tori’s paper proposal, ‘Local content and ecologies of locality: Theoretical and empirical contributions from research into blogging in a Brazilian favela’, has recently been accepted for Internet Research 13.0: Technologies, the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, or AoIR. This year the event will take place in October at MediaCity:UK/University of Salford in … Continue reading »

Earlier this month, Claire attended the annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) at the University of Stirling. Whilst there was no panel on Latin American digital media specifically (unlike the panel organized by Latamcyber in 2008), there was a broader panel on Digital Hispanism, organized by Kirsty Hooper, which provided … Continue reading »

Latamcyber is delighted to announce that Aneta Krzemien, PhD student at the University of Liverpool, and speaker at our net.art workshop held in FACT last May, has received a commendation for her research. All doctoral students in their second year have to present their work at the annual University of Liverpool Poster Day, the most … Continue reading »

At the end of February, Claire was invited to give a talk at MEXSU, the Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration. The talk was entitled ‘Mapping the Americas Online: Latin(o) American net.art and the Aesthetic Production of Space’. Claire gave a snap-shot of her current project and forthcoming monograph on net.art, showcasing as examples the works of Brian Mackern, Coco Fusco … Continue reading »

The journal Hispanic Issues Online recently published a thematic edition on ‘Hybrid Storyspaces: Redefining the Critical Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Hispanic Literature’, edited by Debra Castillo and Christine Henseler. The collection is one outcome of a conference of the same name held at Cornell University in 2010, at which Latamcyber members presented papers. The journal … Continue reading »

We’re delighted to announce that Latamcyber member Tori Holmes was awarded her PhD by the University of Liverpool in November 2011 for a thesis entitled ‘Local content and embeddedness on the internet: Following the texts and practices of bloggers from a Brazilian favela’. The thesis is an interdisciplinary and ethnographically inspired exploration of how residents … Continue reading »

This site has been offline for a few months now, as we worked on transforming it from the conference blog for the International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies into an ongoing dynamic site for the Latamcyber project as a whole. We’re delighted to now be back with the new version of the site, and … Continue reading »