ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the work of Colombian creative multimedia artist Martha Patricia Nino, in particular her 2005 piece Demo Scape V 0.5. It examines how her resistant maps redraw the geographical boundaries of the Colombian nation, indicating how flows of capital, people's and conflicts traverse the borders of the state. The key location under scrutiny in this chapter, and with which Nino's work constantly engages, is the Colombian terrain and the shape of the nation as represented in conventional cartography. The work is a reflection about the way we build symbolic networks by receiving, distorting, transmitting, sharing and even ignoring information. It is a commentary about the immeasurability and mutability of concepts such as Democracy. Nino's refusal of the accepted conventions awakens us to these geopolitical interests: in this case, as we discover when we navigate and explore her map, these interests are those of multinational corporations and their incursions into Colombian terrain.
