Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital (Nov 2016)
Las escrituras alegóricas del software: colapso estético, rearticulación ética, desde el espacio mexicano
Abstract
The convergence between new technologies and creation methods has provided the emergence of textualities linked to the reading on the screen and the digital environment. For their part, Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place point out that these formats have contributed to the impulse of conceptual writings, not only in an aesthetic sense, but also as a reply against the institutional and political control. Likewise, software, as a materiality, not as a simple tool, builds allegoric writing forms, where its own action dynamics and protocols are at the service of concepts. In this paper, we analyse these types of post-conceptual writings produced in the Spanish letters, as well as the use of creative strategies and programmes that show a new logic in the publication and circulation of the art object. Finally, we will focus our interest in the Mexican environment for its inherent aesthetic assertion to the critical proposal of the system.
