ABSTRACT
The introduction offers an overview of the historical and conceptual premises developed in the book and a preliminary argument in favor of its methodology. I narrate the origins of my research project, which started out as a mapping exercise inspired by the cartographic experiments described in the concluding chapter of Siegfried Zielinski’s Deep Time of the Media. Captivated by the shift in media archaeology, from the West to the East and from the North to the South, I asked myself what the place of Latin America in this reanimated cartography could be, bearing in mind that it seemed to be regarded as having no particular relevance in the foundational processes of contemporary media. I then decided to draft a map that would allow me to visualize relevant potential case studies in the history of media technology and art in Latin America. I soon found myself confronted by an eclectic collection of cases that suggested that this field of inquiry could be much more extensive and complex than anything I might have anticipated, which led me to articulate the key concepts and procedures required to take on the task.
