The DLAC Network has recently undergone an expansion. This post is part of a series in which new DLAC members introduce themselves and their research interests in digital culture. This time it is Edward King, Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol. A strong interest in Latin American digital cultures has … Continue reading
The DLAC Network has recently undergone an expansion. This post is part of a series of posts in which new DLAC members introduce themselves and their research interests in digital culture. First up is Rachel Randall (currently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Portuguese and Spanish, Oxford; taking up Lecturership in Hispanic Media and Digital Cultures … Continue reading
Blog Post: DLAC Activities and Events in Argentina As part of a HEIF-funded project on Latin American Art and Museum Policy, Claire Taylor and Ailsa Peate will be holding a week-long series of events in Argentina at the end of November. On Monday 27 November, they will undertake a visit to the Museo de las … Continue reading
We’re pleased to share the news that the DLAC Network is growing! We have recently invited several new colleagues to join us (the original members: Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman and Tori Holmes) in thinking about the cultural dimensions of new media in Latin America. The new members will be introduced in a series of short … Continue reading
Tori Holmes has recently published a new article on the Brazilian webdocumentary project Domínio Público, which portrays urban transformations in Rio de Janeiro in the run-up to the city’s hosting of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, with a particular focus on the impact in Rio’s favelas. The article, with the title ‘Giving visibility … Continue reading
On 22 June 2017, Claire, Thea and Tori participated in a workshop on ‘Mapping Multilingualism and Digital Culture‘ at Kings College London, organised by Language Acts, one of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) projects. In the morning, Claire gave a keynote talk on ‘Digital Culture and Re-thinking Modern Languages’, and Tori participated in a … Continue reading
The DLAC YouTube channel is now live! The channel, which can be found here, is comprised of a variety of videos, which we will be expanding on in the future. Recordings included to this point are a video which features Argentinian digital artist Marina Zerbarini talking about her 2003 online interactive work Tejido … Continue reading
An article by Claire has recently been published in the journal Comparative Critical Studies. The article appears in a special issue of the journal, guest-edited by Emanuela Patti. The special issue focuses on narrative experimentation across languages, and includes phenomenon such as avant-garde and postmodern experiments with novelistic form, graphic novels, hypertext fiction, game literature, … Continue reading
Claire’s project on Latin(o) American Digital Art has been featured on the LSE’s Impact Blog. The LSE Impact Blog is a hub for researchers, administrative staff, librarians, students, think tanks, government, and anyone else interested in maximising the impact of academic work in the social sciences and other disciplines. It aims to encourage debate, share best … Continue reading
A case study on Marina’s digital artwork, Tejido de memoria has now been added to the Resources section of the FIHRM (Federation of International Human Rights Museums) website. Claire and her Research Assistant, Ailsa, were invited by National Museums Liverpool (NML), who created and run the website, to rejuvenate its Resources section as part of … Continue reading
On Friday 24 February staff at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds celebrated their second Sadler Seminar in the ‘Remapping World Cinemas in a Digital Age’ series. The event was entitled ‘Can the Subaltern Speak Online? The Potential of Audio-visual Media for Advocacy and Resistance on the Internet’ … Continue reading
The policy document written after Claire’s successful Latin(o) American Digital Art exhibition at FACT Liverpool in 2014 has been translated into Spanish and distributed among Latin American institutions. In October 2016, Claire was awarded Impact Acceleration funding from the University of Liverpool to carry out work on the project Latin American Art and Museum Policy, … Continue reading
Claire and Thea are pleased to announce the publication in Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11.1, of an article that they have co-authored entitled ‘Where’s the ML in DH? And Where’s the DH in ML? The Relationship between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities, and an Argument for a Critical DHML’. The full article is available here. The … Continue reading
Tori has recently published a chapter on ‘Ethical Dilemmas in Studying Blogging by Favela Residents in Brazil’ in a collection on Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan), edited by Shalini Puri and Debra A. Castillo. The book is available in print and ebook formats. The publisher’s … Continue reading
Thea, Tori and Claire have contributed to a collaboratively-authored article that has just been published on Modern Languages Open – a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience. Entitled ‘Modern Languages and the Digital: The Shape of the Discipline’, the article is the result … Continue reading
A recent article by Claire has come out in a special issue of the journal Revista Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada. Guest edited by Teresa López-Pellisa and Ana Casas, the special issue is dedicated to the topic of ‘Narrativas transmedia, hipermedia e intermedia: teoría y crítica’. After an introduction … Continue reading
Claire and Thea are pleased to announce that their 2013 book, Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production has just been released in paperback and is available to order direct from the publisher. An ebook is also available. Reviews of the book have described it as ‘a superb resource for scholars interested in Latin(o) American … Continue reading
Claire, Thea and Jordana have all had work published in the new special issue of the online art journal Interartive dedicated to art and new media in Latin America. Claire and Jordana’s piece is entitled ‘Latin(o) American Digital Art: Some Observations on Exhibition Spaces, Social Media, and Europe-Latin(o) American Collaborations’ and stems from their work … Continue reading
Thea Pitman has published a chapter entitled ‘Mestizaje and Cyborgism on Either Side of the Line’ in the Cambridge Companion to Latina/a Literature (CUP 2016), edited by John Morán González. The chapter looks at the body politics of the proliferation of mestiza/o cyborgs in Latino cultural production from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, … Continue reading
Claire has contributed two chapters to the book A History of Colombian Literature, edited by Raymond Leslie Williams and published with Cambridge University Press. The book explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial period to the present day, and begins with a comprehensive introduction by Williams that charts the development of … Continue reading
The DLAC network is pleased to announce that Claire Taylor is part of a team that has been awarded a grant from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) to undertake a scoping review on “Ways of Being in a Digital Age”. Led by Professor Simeon Yates of the Institute of Cultural Capital, the scoping … Continue reading
DLAC network is delighted to announce that the retrospective volume on Latin American new media arts, arising from the Cities in Dialogue exhibition, has now been published. The Cities in Dialogue exhibition was held in in FACT in conjunction with the Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014. The book covers the exhibition in detail, as well … Continue reading
DLAC network is pleased to announce that an edited volume containing a chapter by Claire has just been published. Entitled Poéticas y poesías digitales/electrónicas/tecnos/New-Media en América Latina: Definiciones y exploraciones , the book is edited by Luis Correa-Díaz (The University of Georgia) and Scott Weintraub (The University of New Hampshire). The twenty essays included in the volume analyze … Continue reading
Members of the DLAC network have contributed to a special issue of ÆREA. Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía – a journal dedicated to poetry in all its multiple forms. Entitled ‘Poesía Digital Latinoamericana’, the special issue was coordinated by Luis Correa Díaz of the University of Georgia, who has already collaborated with DLAC network on many previous … Continue reading
Thursday 5 May, University of Leeds This is a one-day event where we will spend the morning showcasing the work of Chilean-American multimedia artist Guillermo Bert and his Encoded Textiles project, in dialogue with Russian art curator Alisa Prudnikova. In the afternoon, we will follow up with a ‘netweaving’ workshop to identify ‘common threads’ linking … Continue reading
The 2016 Society for Latin American Studies conference and its specific focus on the theme of ‘building bridges’ and ‘respositioning the field’ provided a great opportunity for a panel on Latin American digital cultures on Friday last week. Although it was one of the very last panels of the conference, it was well attended and … Continue reading
Members of the DLAC network have put together a panel which will be presenting at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies 2016. Entitled ‘Latin American Digital Culture : Repositioning the Field’, the panel brings the perspectives of scholars and practitioners working within the realm of digital culture in a Latin American context. The … Continue reading
Thea Pitman’s article entitled ‘Hipertexto y biculturalidad en dos proyectos autobiográficos de las artistas latinas Lucia Grossberger Morales y Jacalyn Lopez Garcia’ has just been published in Revista Laboratorio, an online journal edited by the Escuela de Literatura Creativa at the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, and dedicated to experimental literature. Abstract: A number of critics … Continue reading
Carolina Brianezi-Melchior and Phoebe Cashman are currently undergraduate students in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. They have spent the past year studying in Uruguay and have developed a great interest in Latin American society and culture. Final year sees them embark on a research project entitled “Race and Gender … Continue reading
Claire Taylor will be appearing tomorrow on a Resonance FM radio programme, in their ‘Making Conversations’ series. Resonance FM is an arts radio project broadcasting to the South Bank and Bankside in London. Broadcast at 4pm, the programme focuses on the topic of ‘words: concrete poetry dialogues’, and brings together Claire along with scholar Stephen Bann, Hayle … Continue reading
Claire will be presenting the findings of her recent project on Latin(o) American Digital Art at the WiSPS 16th annual conference which will be held at the University of Warwick from 13-14 November. Claire will be speaking at a Digital Project Roundtable organized by Kirsty Hooper. The roundtable will both showcase projects and talk about processes, pitfalls, … Continue reading
A reminder to our readers that the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds will be holding its launch event on Wed 4, November, 2015, 3-5pm, Clothworkers North Cinema. This will be followed by a wine reception. Guest speakers include the digital artist María Mencía and the cybercultural critics David … Continue reading
Members of the DLAC Network – Tori Holmes, Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman – will all be participating in a Writing Sprint coordinated by Modern Languages Open to celebrate Academic Book Week. Focussed around the key topic of Modern Languages and the Digital, the Writing Sprint draws together experts in Modern Languages from around the UK and … Continue reading
A reminder to our readers that the Being Human Festival exhibition at Liverpool opens next week, in which Claire’s Latin American Digital Art project will be participating. As part of Being Human, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, the University of Liverpool is holding a series of events including an exhibition in the Gallery … Continue reading
Claire Taylor’s AHRC-funded Follow-On Project on Latin(o) American Digital Art has now come to an end, and has drawn up a Policy Document based on the findings of the project. The Policy Document that makes a series of observations and recommendations regarding the exhibition spaces for digital artwork, the uses of social media for curation … Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce that Claire’s Latin American Digital Art project will be participating in the series of events held in Liverpool as part of the Being Human Festival. Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, and is now in its second year. A series of events are taking place in … Continue reading
Claire Taylor recently appeared on a Resonance FM radio programme, in their ‘Making Conversations’ series. Resonance FM is an arts radio project broadcasting to the South Bank and Bankside in London. Broadcast on 29th September 2015 at 4pm, the programme was hosted by Andrew Prescott, Theme Leader Fellow in Digital Transformations for the Arts & Humanities Research … Continue reading
The Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds will be holding its launch event on Wed 4, November, 2015, 3-5pm, Clothworkers North Cinema. This will be followed by a wine reception. Guest speakers include the digital artist María Mencía and the cybercultural critics David Bell and Elena Trubina. All welcome.
On Friday 25 September, Tori and Thea took part in a panel on ‘Digital Visibilities’ at the ‘Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies’ conference, held at Senate House in London. The conference was organised by Tori in collaboration with Sara Brandellero (Leiden) and Stephanie Dennison (Leeds), with support from the Institute of Latin American Studies. The purpose … Continue reading
The Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum which took place last Saturday and Sunday was a resounding success, with over 9,000 visitors to the exhibits over the course of the weekend. The weekend brought together academics, practitioners, designers, creative industries, curators, and more, who all presented their work in a variety of … Continue reading
A reminder to our readers that the Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum opens this coming Saturday! Claire Taylor’s Latin(o) American Digital Art Project will be participating in the event which runs from Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 September 2015 , 10.30 –17.00. The Latin(o) American Digital Art Project will be presenting This … Continue reading
The Latin(o) American Digital Art Project, led by Claire Taylor, welcomes this month Ailsa Peate to the research team. Ailsa is currently a doctoral student at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool, working under Claire’s supervision. Ailsa will be working as postgraduate Research Assistant for the Latin(o) American Digital Art … Continue reading
The eagle-eyed amongst our readers will have noticed that our research collaboration has undergone a name change and a re-vamp over the summer, with new images to match. Our old name, the Latin American Cyberculture Project, has been updated to the Digital Latin American Cultures Network, to reflect more accurately what we do. Our network … Continue reading
Tickets for the Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London are now available on Event Brite. Now in its fifth year, the V&A Digital Design Weekend brings together artists, designers, engineers and scientists celebrating the intersections of art, design and technology. The Latin(o) American Digital Art Project, led by Claire Taylor, are participating … Continue reading
On 1 August 2015 the Centre for World Cinemas, based in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, officially became the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures (CWCDC). The change in name marks both a logical development of the Centre’s interests given the increasingly digital nature of film production … Continue reading
Thea’s post on the poetics of ‘netweaving’ in digital art projects by Latina/o artists Lucia Grossberger Morales, Guillermo Bert and Monika Bravo has just been published in Mediático, an online media and film studies blog focusing on Latin American, Latina/o and Iberian media cultures. To read the full blog post click here.
We’re delighted to announce that Claire’s Latin(o) American Digital Art Project has been invited to participate in the Digital Design Weekend 2015, to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The culmination of the London Design Festival, the Digital Design Weekend is held from Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 September 2015 , 10.30 … Continue reading
Latamcyber is pleased to draw your attention to the recent review by Hilda Chacón of Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman’s recent book, Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production. Published in volume 49:1 of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, the review covers the various discourses that are dealt with in the book, as well as providing a … Continue reading
This month, Claire has joined the I Love EPoetry project as a contributor to their resources on electronic literature. Headed by Leonardo Flores, I Love EPoetry seeks to explore the poetics of language as deployed in digital media, particularly when it engages its media in artistic and literary ways. The project covers electronic literature of all … Continue reading
Our readers will have noticed that we’ve been blogging and tweeting energetically over this past year with all the latest news, events and activities from Claire’s AHRC-funded project on Latin(o) American Digital Art. The grant has just come to an end this month, but this doesn’t mean the end of the project. The good news … Continue reading
Thea’s article on the Latin American digital arts scene, inspired by her participation in the 2015 E-Poetry conference held in Buenos Aires last month, has been published this week in The Conversation. To read the full text, go to: https://theconversation.com/an-introduction-to-the-booming-world-of-latin-american-digital-arts-41933