Machinic Configurations in Latin American Contemporary Art: Uselessness, Inefficiency and New Ontologies of Artwork-Machines
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2025 |
| Beschreibung: | Introduction: Drawing on contributions from the Philosophy of technology and the ontological turn, this paper examines various machine configurations developed within the field of contemporary Latin American art. Objective: The study analyzes, from formal, technical, material, and conceptual perspectives, a selection of artworks that subvert the behavior of the modern machine, established since the Industrial Revolution as a productive, efficient, and utilitarian artifact. Methods: The analysis adopted a qualitative methodology based on bibliographic survey, theoretical systematization, critical inquiry of the works, and fieldwork with an ethnographic approach consisting of semi-structured interviews with the artists and direct observations. Results: Two lines of production are identified: artworks that constitute useless machines and artifacts that establish a new ontology of machine devoted to non-instituted purposes. Conclusions: Both lines displace the anthropocentric primacy and advocate for the ontological equality of machines, which assume active roles in a network of dynamic relations with human and non-human agencies. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Sprache: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/951 |
| Online Zugang: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rescena/article/view/951 |
| Stichwort: | artifact contemporaneity ontological turn artistic practices technology artefacto contemporaneidad giro ontológico prácticas artísticas tecnología |