ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on a vibrant community of Latin American artists to investigate how, in their online works, they engage in re-imaginings of and representations of offline place. It examines the Latin American artists who develop cultural formats that give rise to new forms of local and regional place-based affiliations, and they interrogate some of the central place-based concerns of Latin American identity through their on and offline cultural practice. Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin America and the US are studied in detail in it, with one each from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, the US-Mexico border and the US. Defined as a 'emerging form of location awareness' net locality refers to the various technologies by which the internet merges with physical place, and geography becomes the organizational structure of the internet. Many such studies have shown that geographical place is highly significant in online culture and in online interaction.
