Editorial

Data artivism and feminicide

“…Latin America has been a laboratory for joining art and political practice since at least the late 1950s, when social movements generated public interventions and new forms of theater, from the Zapatistas' use of art and digital means (Berti, 2021) to recent forms of feminist artivism, such as the protest-performance "Un violador en tu camino" (a rapist in your path) by Chilean group Las Tesis (de Fina Gonzalez, 2021). Latin American feminist activists are also pioneering the use of data for activism against feminicide (D'Ignazio, 2024).…”

“…Artivism is a hybridization where art becomes a vehicle to communicate an energy towards change and transformation (Aladro-Vico et al, 2018). Artivism is fundamentally process-based and collaborative; it entails public locations and participatory reactions, and its aesthetic forms and relationality emphasize action (Berti, 2021). Like cyberactivism, artivism intends to activate consciences (Maldonado Zamudio, 2019), and its more contemporary forms have strong links to digital cultures (Raposo, 2015: 11).…”