Week 9 Deus Ex Machina

     This article highlights that there can be no easy "return" or recovery" from our ancestral pact even if we try to reproduce the traditions and carry them on or by using new technologies where our identity is present. A form of art is Cyber Art where it is simultaneously mixing both tradition and technology. This form of art mixes the old with the new. In the art exhibition, of Tradition Meets Technology, Cyber Art, in the Changing Gallery of the museum’s Hispanic Heritage Wing consisted of four artists: Teresa Archuleta- Sagel, Elena Baca, Alma Lopez, and Marion C. Martinez. 

    To define Chicanafuturism is a cultural production that attends to the transformation of a culture because of the new and adapting technologies. These new everyday technologies allow for alternative or new narratives of the future, identity and redefine the human. Ramirez states that Chicanafuturism, “offers an ontological and epistemological alternative to that of the Englighment (or rational) subject” (158). Martinez works dips in the chicanafutruism form of narratives where the art works concerns the present and the future by mixing in new technologies. His not only includes the present and the future, but also science into the narratives of Hispanas. By strategically making art by integrating these aspects Martinez is challenging sexist, racist and classist stereotypes. He challenges the acceptance of not permitting space for Hispanas in the domain of science and technology. Martinez’s art powerfully demonstrates the need of change as it relates to technology and science because it can really help people for the better.