JOURNAL ARTICLE

Rematerialization: Anticolonial Collective Memory through Latinx Digital Art.

  • Published In: Feminist Media Histories, 2024, v. 10, n. 4. P. 10 1 of 3

  • Database: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ruíz, Diana Flores 3 of 3

Abstract

In this essay, I examine memory optimization as both a fundamental component of digital operations and a feminist form of cultural resistance to digital colonialism through a multimedia installation by the Latinx artist collective Cog•nate Collective. Through close reading, I demonstrate how their 2021 installation And will be again...transforms the work of memory optimization through an ecofeminist countermapping of the US-Mexico border and its histories of data extraction through dispossession. I analyze the various components of the multimedia installation, including the collaborative process of Indigenous language translations of an eponymous passage by Gloria Anzaldúa. I frame my analysis through a sociotechnical reclamation of the computer science term rematerialization. In doing so, I reorient the term rematerialization to showcase how Latinx artists recompute historical data of the US-Mexico borderlands to produce anticolonial collective memories as spiritual technologies of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Feminist Media Histories. 2024/10, Vol. 10, Issue 4, p10
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2373-7492
  • DOI:10.1525/fmh.2024.10.4.10
  • Accession Number:180249129
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