Dialogue with digital creators of Mexico and Central America. Cyberculture, politics and intellectual property rights

• In Event: Disrupting Social and National Boundaries in the Digital Age II

Abstract

This paper is an effort to discuss Cyberculture in Latin America, by analyzing interviews of tactical media artist Fran Ilich from Mexico, Jose Montealegre who does art and creative experimentation from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, activist, blogger and illustrator Alberto Sanchez, artist and designer Darwin Andino from Nicaragua and Honduras and Johan Bonilla lawyer and writer from Nicaragua, I will try to find and articulate some of the tensions between global, regional and local context, authorship, ethics and social provocation. This paper is an exploration of their perceptions of the status of digital production, the possibilities of trends in the digital content creation as well as the positions of these digital creators towards intellectual property rights and digital freedom.
Keywords: Digital Cultural production, cyberculture, multimedia, Latin America, intellectual property rights, globalization, remix media, tactical media.

Author

• Emilia Yang