Claudia E. Zapata's Chicanx Graphics in the Digital Age touches upon the usage of Chicanx art and graphics within the new digital age, now having a greater, expanded audience that helps further the Chicana/o Movement. Zapata further honors the usage of digital art techniques as a legit artistic expression that redefines a white-centered art world. Digital art and media becomes more easily accessible to many through the means of digital technology. Claudia Zapata goes on to state how an artist’s ability to work within digital programs is even further heightened through the tools available such as photography and computer applications. In fact, technological advancements have brought an unprecedented amount of diversity within digital media and is a reason why it is certainly being picked up by many Chicana/o artists. One piece that called out to me was the image found on the second page of the pdf file, with the words “Justice For Layleen Polanco” written above a drawn graphic of the passed Layleen Polanco. The image itself called out to me because I had recognized the name of the woman who had passed recently between these two years. I had come across her story over twitter at the beginning of the quarantine, and learned of her unfortunate passing. Twitter, having become more hypervigilant of police brutality cases due to the Black Lives Matter movement, highlighted the death of a Afro-Latino trans woman (Layleen Polanco) inside of a prison that was caused by a lack of medical attention and negligence. Digital art and works such as these propel movements and further bring attention to the names of those who have faced injustice, serving as a mean to educate and reach a greater audience.
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