Books – Tupacamauta

ARTEÔNICA: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin American Today, Exhibition Catalog

Posted on 2026-08-05

WINNER of the 2026 ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award! Learn more about the award HERE.

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MOLAA´s Exhibition Catalog book / Hardcover

Edited by Gabriela Urtiaga (MOLAA´s Chief Curator) with contributions by José-Carlos Mariátegui, Rodrigo Alonso, Claudia Giannetti, Patrick Frank, Tania Aedo Arankowsky, and David Maulén de los Reyes.

Product description

ARTEONICA is a Museum of Latin America´s catalog exhibition dedicated to explore the links between art, science and technology in Latin America from the 1960s to the present. This book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition at MOLAA, presents a comprehensive study about this little-known Latin American art movement, creating a dialogue between a group of “pioneers” artists from the 1960s and 1970s and the contemporary artists whose work responds to their legacy.

Artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru: Marcela Armas, Dora Bartilotti, Martha Boto, Teresa Burga, Tania Candiani, Rejane Cantoni, Analivia Cordeiro, Waldemar Cordeiro, Vitória Cribb, Patricia Domínguez, Juan Downey, Gyula Kosice, Francesco Mariotti, Marta Minujín, Lucía Monge, Leo Nuñez, Constanza Piña, Juan Salas Carreño, Mariano Sardón and Pola Weiss.

An outstanding group of writers offer diverse essays addressing key threads about the intersection of art, science and technology, enriching the historical legacy with compelling contemporary debates on participation, social engagement, Indigenous knowledge, living and autonomous systems, memory, and networks for global solidarity, leading to uncommon terrains giving rise to critical and dialogical perspectives.

Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Language ‏ : ‎ English-Spanish
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 248 pages fully illustrated
ISBN : ‎ 978-0-9801080-7-1
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 1.1 x 10.5 inches
Publication date: November 20th, 2024

El pensamiento es un jardín hibrido. El archivo Mariotti – Luy (1964-2024)

Posted on 2026-04-16

Co-edited with Miguel A. López in the framework of the exhibition of the same name, presented simultaneously at the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima MAC-Lima, this book is the first publication devoted entirely to the work of Francesco Mariotti and María Luy: six decades of artistic and cultural production traversing continents, languages, and disciplines.

One central challenge for this publication was one of scale. The Mariotti–Luy Archive, held on long-term loan at MALI since 2017, comprises more than fifteen linear meters of documentation —photographs, correspondence, sketches, posters, films, programmes, computational poems, manifestos— alongside an extensive body of works across widely varied media. Rather than attempting an exhaustive catalogue, we opted for a structure that functions as an invitation to explore this pluriverse: an extended curatorial essay, the product of more than a decade of joint research; a portfolio of works that also includes ephemeral projects documentation of significant historical value; a series of original essays —by Mijail Mitrovic, Almendra Otta, Giuliana Vidarte, Emilia Curatola, Rosalyn Chávarry, and a foundational text by Gustavo Buntinx three decades ago on the work of Mariotti—; a section of appendices gathering key documents, manifestos, and interviews; and a detailed chronology.

The recent passing of Francesco Mariotti during the editorial process transformed the character of the book, which became also a tribute. This publication only begins to reveal the richness of a practice that will continue to generate new readings and new wonder in the years to come.

The book can be ordered from MALI Shop

Digital Museum. Intelligences and Artifices

Posted on 2026-03-14

This bilingual edition explores the role of museums in the digital age, with a special focus on exploring and discussing digital practices and global perspectives; it also recognizes the rich history of art and technology in the region. The publication is structured in two main sections: «Future Technologies: Memory, Languages and Knowledges”, discussing indigenous knowledge systems and their relationship with new technologies; and, «The Museum as Laboratory: Technology, Data and New Artistic Practices”, exploring how museums can function as laboratories for knowledge and experimentation. Both topics aim at discussing not only the impact of digitalisation and technology in museums, but mostly, how the museum should be reconfigured for the 21st century challenges.

Museo Digital: inteligencias y artificios / Digital Museum. Intelligences and Artifices is published by Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with the support of Telefónica Movistar Foundation México.

Book edited by José-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru/UK).
Contributors include: Sara Diamond (Canada), Ulises Mejías (Mexico/USA), Roberto Zariquiey (Peru), Priscilla Molina Muñoz (Costa Rica), Fernanda Pita (Brazil), Yásnaya Elena Gil (Mexico), Bruno Moreschi (Brazil), Bernardo Fontes (Brazil), Luz María Bedoya (Peru), Juan Cortés (Colombia), and Luis Martínez-Uribe (Spain).

Available on open access in Spanish and English

This book emerged from the third edition of the International Digital Museum Conference, which I curated and brought together artists, researchers, and cultural managers to reimagine museums in the digital era.

Mariátegui, José-Carlos, ed. 2025. Digital Museum. Intelligences and Artifices. Edited by José-Carlos Mariátegui. Mexico: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo – MUAC, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM.

The Rafael Hastings Film Project

Posted on 2026-03-14

Rafael Hastings (1942–2020) was one of the most unclassifiable figures in Latin American experimental film and video art. Born in Lima, he studied in Brussels into the orbit of Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Béjart, and the experimental ferment of 1960s Europe — absorbing cinema, choreography, conceptual art, and countercultural politics before returning to Peru in the early 1970s with an ambition that defied any single medium.

This book revisits a dimension of his practice that has remained almost entirely invisible until now: his work in film and video. At its centre is El incondicionado desocultamiento (1974), a 35mm experimental film believed lost for nearly five decades and recently recovered from the archive of the Filmoteca Española in Madrid. Shot across weeks of travel along the Peruvian coast — through the desert of Paracas and the ancient ceremonial complex of Sechín — the film weaves together pre-Columbian archaeology, Oriental mysticism, and speculative fiction into four short films that meditate on disappearance, transcendence, and the deep time of culture.

Alongside the restored film, and a catalogue raisonné, this book publishes for the first time the complete Diario de filmación — Hastings’ handwritten production notebook and its transcriptions, filled with watercolours, technical calculations, collaged magazine clippings, and poetic instructions to himself — a document that reveals how he worked and thought as a filmmaker. The book includes original contributions by José-Carlos Mariátegui, Fietta Jarque, Natalia Rey de Castro, Jorge La Ferla and Luis Alvarado.

Mariátegui, José-Carlos, ed. 2025. El Incondicionado Desocultamiento. The Rafael Hastings Film Project. Edited by Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano ICPNA. Lima: ICPNA, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano.