Alberto López Cuenca
Biographic Data
| ID | 888713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto López Cuenca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto López |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuenca |
| SIGNATURE | CUENCA A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2478-9416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
El asalto televisivo a la historia del arte. Modos de ver en la disputa por la propiedad intelectual de las imágenes del arte
Este artículo parte de la escasa recepción crítica en castellano de la serie documental y el libro Ways of Seeing (WoS, 1972) y se aparta de las interpretaciones preponderantes anglosajonas para argumentar que su relevancia no se debería tanto a su temática como a haber retado la propiedad de las obras de arte y la autoridad académica mediante el asalto audiovisual al canon artístico. A diferencia de otras propuestas, WoS no habría recurrido a la…
Disruptive culture: Violence and cultural self-management in Tijuana, 2001–2017
Entre la revolución y la institución: La Escuela Popular de Arte en Puebla, 1973-1974
Este artículo tiene por objetivo reconstruir someramente y problematizar críticamente la Escuela Popular de Arte (EPA), una efímera y poco estudiada iniciativa de pedagogía artística desarrollada en Puebla a inicios de la década de 1970. Mediante revisión bibliográfica, hemerográfica y entrevistas a actores directos, emplazaremos la epa, por una parte, en las disputas de distintos movimientos de izquierda por el control de la Universidad Autónoma…
Towards a posthumanistic knowledge production. Multimedia artistic research during the rise of neoliberalism in Mexico
Although for the government officials who inaugurated the state-run Centro Multimedia (CMM) in 1994 in Mexico City it had less to do with artistic experimentation than with the promotion of a neoliberal agenda of national modernization and competitiveness, CMM has come to embody a reformulation in artistic research and education via new media. Focusing on one specific form of knowledge production that CMM promoted – the Biomediations Festival and…
Disentir del interfaz: Crítica y escritura en la era de la autorreferencialidad digital
Este artículo presenta una indagación sobre el estatuto actual de la escritura y la crítica en las mediaciones digitales contemporáneas a partir del trabajo e-valencia.org del artista Daniel García Andújar. Su argumento se desarrolla a partir de las consideraciones de Tiziana Terranova (2004), Scott Lash (2002) y Bernard Stiegler (1994/2002, 2010), entre otros, para dilucidar el papel del interfaz y la indeterminación tecnológica en la tarea de l…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Prácticas culturales colaborativas y sociabilidad débil. Una caracterización a partir de experiencias autogestivas en Tijuana y Monterrey, México
Although research on collaborative artistic projects and practices tend to emphasize the social ties and even the production of communities that they enact, normally, this very research does not pay attention to the singularity of the forms of sociality produced. This article engages in a double task –namely, a theoretical definition and an analytical application– derived from the fieldwork undertaken in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Monterre…
Trashing Scale: Distributed Agency, the Afterlife of Commodities and Animism in Contemporary Art
This article provides a conceptual and historical approach to frame the recurrent use of animism in contemporary art and theory. It calls attention to the ‘anthropological turn’ that took place in the 1980–1990s that characterised objects and artworks as agents, and revise the notion of the ‘socialist object’ to define the kind of agency commodities have achieved in late capitalism. It argues that the current interest in new forms of agency can b…
Desmayo de la representación y tránsito entre escalas en el Chile (post)dictatorial en nostalgia de la luz y el colectivo de acciones de arte
Este artículo indaga en las transiciones entre escalas como estrategia artística durante el período dictatorial y postdictatorial en Chile. Se presenta el documental Nostalgia de la luz (2010), de Patricio Guzmán, y el trabajo del Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (1979-1985) como estrategias de replanteamiento tanto de las posibilidades de la imaginación política como de la agencia política del arte a través de los efectos escalares y las bifurcacio…
Beyond Rebellion of the Net: Infrastructural Commoning as Critical Cultural Literacy
This article offers a critical interpretation of the recent cultural and political history of artistic engagements with digital technologies in contemporary Mexico, considering some of them in relation to changing notions of cultural literacy under neoliberal globalization. While educational social research in Latin America has its own critical traditions for studying literacy as a social practice embedded in power relations, art theory and criti…
The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories
If an observer sees a flashed (briefly presented) object that is aligned with a moving target, the perceived position of the flashed object usually lags the perceived position of the moving target. This has been referred to as the flash-lag effect, and the flash-lag effect has been suggested to reflect how an observer compensates for delays in perception that are due to neural processing times and is thus able to interact with dynamic stimuli in …
Artistic Labour, Enclosure and the New Economy
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Beyond Rebellion of the Net: Infrastructural Commoning as Critical Cultural Literacy
This article offers a critical interpretation of the recent cultural and political history of artistic engagements with digital technologies in contemporary Mexico, considering some of them in relation to changing notions of cultural literacy under neoliberal globalization. While educational social research in Latin America has its own critical traditions for studying literacy as a social practice embedded in power relations, art theory and criti…
Artistic Labour, Enclosure and the New Economy
The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories
If an observer sees a flashed (briefly presented) object that is aligned with a moving target, the perceived position of the flashed object usually lags the perceived position of the moving target. This has been referred to as the flash-lag effect, and the flash-lag effect has been suggested to reflect how an observer compensates for delays in perception that are due to neural processing times and is thus able to interact with dynamic stimuli in …
Beyond Rebellion of the Net: Infrastructural Commoning as Critical Cultural Literacy
This article offers a critical interpretation of the recent cultural and political history of artistic engagements with digital technologies in contemporary Mexico, considering some of them in relation to changing notions of cultural literacy under neoliberal globalization. While educational social research in Latin America has its own critical traditions for studying literacy as a social practice embedded in power relations, art theory and criti…
Prácticas culturales colaborativas y sociabilidad débil. Una caracterización a partir de experiencias autogestivas en Tijuana y Monterrey, México
Although research on collaborative artistic projects and practices tend to emphasize the social ties and even the production of communities that they enact, normally, this very research does not pay attention to the singularity of the forms of sociality produced. This article engages in a double task –namely, a theoretical definition and an analytical application– derived from the fieldwork undertaken in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Monterre…
Trashing Scale: Distributed Agency, the Afterlife of Commodities and Animism in Contemporary Art
This article provides a conceptual and historical approach to frame the recurrent use of animism in contemporary art and theory. It calls attention to the ‘anthropological turn’ that took place in the 1980–1990s that characterised objects and artworks as agents, and revise the notion of the ‘socialist object’ to define the kind of agency commodities have achieved in late capitalism. It argues that the current interest in new forms of agency can b…
Desmayo de la representación y tránsito entre escalas en el Chile (post)dictatorial en nostalgia de la luz y el colectivo de acciones de arte
Este artículo indaga en las transiciones entre escalas como estrategia artística durante el período dictatorial y postdictatorial en Chile. Se presenta el documental Nostalgia de la luz (2010), de Patricio Guzmán, y el trabajo del Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (1979-1985) como estrategias de replanteamiento tanto de las posibilidades de la imaginación política como de la agencia política del arte a través de los efectos escalares y las bifurcacio…
Disentir del interfaz: Crítica y escritura en la era de la autorreferencialidad digital
Este artículo presenta una indagación sobre el estatuto actual de la escritura y la crítica en las mediaciones digitales contemporáneas a partir del trabajo e-valencia.org del artista Daniel García Andújar. Su argumento se desarrolla a partir de las consideraciones de Tiziana Terranova (2004), Scott Lash (2002) y Bernard Stiegler (1994/2002, 2010), entre otros, para dilucidar el papel del interfaz y la indeterminación tecnológica en la tarea de l…
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey
It is frequently claimed that cultural agents are necessary to sustain and strengthen the social fabric, to guarantee economic growth and social development and to consolidate knowledge economies based on innovation. These arguments tend to avoid inquiring what kind of sociality these cultural actors are enacting. To address this point, we researched three Mexican midsize cities: Puebla, Tijuana, and Monterrey, between 1984 and 2017. Sociality pr…
Building the city through culture: Puebla's cultural urban assemblage (1987-2017)
This article analyses the creation of a cultural urban assemblage in Puebla, Mexico, between 1987 and 2017. For three decades, Puebla city officials have relied on different understandings of culture to justify and implement public policies aimed at stimulating economic development and urban reorganization. New museums, parks, bike paths, multimedia projections and web applications have been created to encourage tourism and attract investment. We…
Disruptive culture: Violence and cultural self-management in Tijuana, 2001–2017
Entre la revolución y la institución: La Escuela Popular de Arte en Puebla, 1973-1974
Este artículo tiene por objetivo reconstruir someramente y problematizar críticamente la Escuela Popular de Arte (EPA), una efímera y poco estudiada iniciativa de pedagogía artística desarrollada en Puebla a inicios de la década de 1970. Mediante revisión bibliográfica, hemerográfica y entrevistas a actores directos, emplazaremos la epa, por una parte, en las disputas de distintos movimientos de izquierda por el control de la Universidad Autónoma…
Towards a posthumanistic knowledge production. Multimedia artistic research during the rise of neoliberalism in Mexico
Although for the government officials who inaugurated the state-run Centro Multimedia (CMM) in 1994 in Mexico City it had less to do with artistic experimentation than with the promotion of a neoliberal agenda of national modernization and competitiveness, CMM has come to embody a reformulation in artistic research and education via new media. Focusing on one specific form of knowledge production that CMM promoted – the Biomediations Festival and…
El asalto televisivo a la historia del arte. Modos de ver en la disputa por la propiedad intelectual de las imágenes del arte
Este artículo parte de la escasa recepción crítica en castellano de la serie documental y el libro Ways of Seeing (WoS, 1972) y se aparta de las interpretaciones preponderantes anglosajonas para argumentar que su relevancia no se debería tanto a su temática como a haber retado la propiedad de las obras de arte y la autoridad académica mediante el asalto audiovisual al canon artístico. A diferencia de otras propuestas, WoS no habría recurrido a la…
Art (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (3 works)