Arte y Diseño Discursos de la Identidad Cultural en América Latina

Abstract

Research Project 11.3 reflects on artistic and design practices as representations of the cultural identity of the community from which they emerge. This theme leads to problematize the dominant modernist discourse, which gave representations of "the Latin American" characteristics that have remained pigeonholed in the magical, surreal or fantastic, rejecting those manifestations that, based on their diverse and differential expressions with the European canons in its modern conception. The aesthetic production and creation of culture in our territory provides valuable inputs for the people to recognize their identity, consolidate their memory and contribute their sensitive intelligence to questions about who are Latin Americans in this millennial transition, what is our place in the world and how we will continue to face the dizzying globalization, increasingly accelerated by telematics, cybernetics and computing.