Prólogo

Abstract

It is proposed to reflect on artistic and design practices as cultural identity representations of the community from which they emerge. This theme leads to problematizing the dominant modernist discourse, which gave the representations of “the Latin American” characteristics that have remained encased in the magical, surreal or fantastic rejecting those manifestations that, from their diverse and differential expressions with the European canons In its modern conception. The production and aesthetic creation of culture in our territory provides valuable inputs for the people to recognize themselves in their identity, consolidate their memory and contribute their sensitive intelligence to questions about who we are Latin Americans in this millenary transition, what is our place in the world and how we will continue to face the vertiginous globalization, increasingly accelerated by telematics, cybernetics and computer science.