Revista Académica Estesis

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Authors: Santiago Martín de Salterain

In the present text I intend, combining certain conceptions of different thinkers, to propose that the so-called "new media art" can be understood (at least in part) as a special type of "detour". To be more specific, I would like to propose that artists who work with "technical devices" carry out "artistic deviations of information"

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Authors: Rubén Darío Yepes Muñoz

This article examines some of the aesthetic strategies through which the visual arts have approached violence in Colombia over the last two decades. The main argument is that these strategies are post-representational: the artists and works in question do not simply seek to represent or document violence and its victims; rather, they seek to inter-vene in the contexts of violence. The article examines the af-fective mediation of violence through the artworks in ques-tion, suggesting that this mediation is key to their agency

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Authors: Pablo Domínguez Galbraith

This article aims to articulate the conceptual notion of foren-sic aesthetics developed by Eyal Weizman, Thomas Keenan, and the Forensic Architecture Project, as well as by the work and perspective of forensic anthropology and the theoreti-cal, philosophical, and artistic framework and practices re-lated. It traces the evolution of the landscape of politics of disappearance in Latin America, and the recent history of its revival in Mexico. Moreover, the article analyses the case of Ayotzinapa, and how the Forensic Architecture Project intervenes with the development of the Ayotzinapa Plat-form and an exhibition in the Contemporary Universitary Art Museum (MUAC) at UNAM in Mexico City. Lastly, this work is inscribed in the horizon offorensic aesthetics that have been developed in Mexico in recent years