Throwing a Stone in the Techno-Artistic Pond (or Some Notes on the Dialogue Between Art, Technology and Living Matters in Latin America)

Abstract

This paper argues that paradigms rooted in Western epistemologies of control, extraction and anthropocentrism fail to address Latin America's socio-environmental complexities and cultural pluralities. Analysing contemporary techno-artistic practices, this approach offers a decolonial critique of dominant frameworks and proposes methodologies that reorient art, life and technology towards reciprocity, hybridity and situated knowledge. Focusing on Latin American artists who transcend bioart's conventional boundaries, the paper highlights practices resisting lab-centric reductionism and engaging with living systems as co-creative partners, destabilising the nature-technology binary and forging new analytical categories grounded in decolonial thought.