Analogous interconnections in Latin American digital art: a brief analysis of the computational artistic practice of Manuel Felguérez (Mexico) in relation to Waldemar Cordeiro (Brazil), 1969-1975

Abstract

This brief study seeks to exhibit the fundamental aesthetic interconnections between two Latin American artists that have not yet been studied together, applying a comparative analysis of the approach that both authors had in their experimental artistic practice with respect to the computational technology of their time, and through them, finding the main similarities that reside in the motivations, interventions and aesthetic resolutions of both pioneers in digital art. Works by Waldemar Cordeiro and Manuel Felguérez in their multiple formats and exhibitions will be used as resources. Also, some historical elements that were part of the trajectory of each author will be reviewed, thus allowing to identify coincident and determinant traits with respect to their plastic trajectory, and their premature approaches to informal creative systems and visual intervention with the computer, dependent on their interests in parallel with the machine, space and abstraction, in art and technology.