Colombian Audiovisual Memory in YouTube
Among all the metaphors that can be used to understand YouTube, I choose the one of an archive because it allows me to explore the relation between media and me...
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Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
Learning with Digital and Participatory Maps
In the digital era, maps are everywhere -from large-scale displays within galleries and museums, to mobile smartphone screens. Not only do maps allow us to navi...
El Viaje de Antonio / Antonio’s Journey
Life is a journey. No doubt. In both metaphorical and literal sense we cross time and space as we experience our lives. We move. Always move. For some people, s...
Informal Photo-Booths in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Regardless of the massive adoption of digital cameras and other mobile devices capable of recording images and of the massification of amateur photography, the ...
Latin American Cities and Film Travelogues From the 20th Century
Since the 19th century travelogues have been a popular media format. First as illustrated lectures accompanied with glass-lantern slides and moving images proje...
Mexico City as a Sensorial Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movable Urban Layers
More than eleven years took me to come back to Mexico City, Distrito Federal (DF). The return has surprised me as much as it happened the first time I landed in...