In the essay, “¡Printing the Revolution!” by Claudia Zapata, the author and historian depicts the way that Chicanx art and artivism develops from 1965 to now (focused until 2019), through technology. Zapata describes artists and their artwork, like Barbara Carrasco’s artwork on Times Square, Alma Lopez’s “controversial” take on La Virgen de Guadalupe, or introducing artivists like Julio Salgado.
I consider myself a big online art supporter- still supporting artists who display their work in person- because they tend to conquer a very big platform, that can be extremely negative or overwhelmingly positive. However, artists who take on digital media to depict their work and message, to eventually become physical work is not something I have previously considered. For example, Rupert Garcia created the Obama from Douglass print, which is digital work, curated to eventually become physical, poster-like work. It seems so obvious that digital work is created for physical form, but in the day of media we live in, it seems like it is only created for digital platforms. Of course, in a time prior to social media, digital media was a transmitter to create bigger work that is easily accessible to print with high quality, such as protest posters.
I enjoyed the way Zapata split up the ‘Web’ sections into 2 different parts: one which focuses on art that was digitally created and consumed physically, with artwork that was also consumed by the media, whereas the second section focuses on digital platform artwork and artivism. I was a little knowledgeable in the second section of the web, but I was very blind in knowing artists that take on big social problems, especially minority and discriminatory problems. I believe this essay was very informative, eye-opening, and will allow me to reflect on what I do know and learn about artists and artivism in the future.
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