Arteônica: Art, Science and Technology in Latin America Today. Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)

The exhibition explores the little-known Latin American art movement based on the relationship between art, science, and technology from the 1960s to the present.
Arteônica: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America Today takes as its starting point the contribution of Brazilian electronic art pioneer Waldemar Cordeiro (Italy, 1925–Brazil, 1973)—one of South America’s first computer artists—to exploring and analyzing the state of electronic and cybernetic arts over the past 60 years.
Latin American artists have never stopped working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, enriching the historical legacy with compelling contemporary debates on participation, social engagement, Indigenous knowledge, living and autonomous systems, memory, and networks for global solidarity.
Artists such as Marta Minujín (Argentina), Francesco Mariotti (Peru), Juan Downey (Chile), Gyula Kosice (Argentina), Martha Boto (Argentina), Pola Weiss (Mexico) and Teresa Burga (Peru) laid the foundations for a production inspired by the most innovative concepts of their time while immersing themselves in the results of international and local research, the ideas moving the world and those emerging from their regional environments.
The exhibition is presented as a matrix of knowledge and experimentation that explores the themes in a transversal way, not chronologically, but in dialogue with these interrelated thematic axes, where many of the artists could be part of each core in question from different perspectives. The project led by Gabriela Urtiaga is organized by MOLAA as part of the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
For more information and a list of artists, visit: 2024 ARTEONICA — MOLAA | Museum of Latin American Art