This weeks reading titled Deus Ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist by Catherine S. Ramirez explained how Chicana art has advanced through time with the development of new technologies that contribute to the production of art. Traditional forms of art such as using iconic religious figures such as La Virgin de Guadalupe are given new life and conceptualized different using digital print making and computer softwares. Artist like Yolanda Lopez, Ester Hernandez, and Alma Lopez are great examples of the many artist who have used technology literally and artist like Marion C. Martinez have used it figuratively. The reading illustrates Martinez's work with the piece titled Orotario a la Virginsita (2000) which is cyber arte that is constructed from discarded circuit boards, discs, wires, and chips. This methods transform the piece from traditional to a fused concept of futuristic yet it encompasses art forms of the past. She challenges the nostalgia and romanticism vision of the "Land of Enchantment" by interrogating the lines of Chicana and Hispanic identity (Ramierez pg.147). Not only did her work encompassed transformative art methods but also it acknowledges how her home town of New Mexico has historically been a landfill for technological trash. Chicanafuturism is not at all the end all be all for old art methods and conceptualism, but rather a twist of both worlds for the generations of today who carry on Chicana/o/x art.
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