DigiSUR
About
DigiSUR is an interdisciplinary hub dedicated to the exploration, analysis, critique, and intervention of technologies and information in the Global South, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Our concern is toward the relations that constitute and are constituted in technological and sociotechnical assemblages. DigiSUR takes a critical stance toward techno-solutionist approaches and expands the very notion of “technology” to include diverse and alternative arrangements. This perspective allows us to engage with projects that explore non-digital innovations and local practices shaping everyday life across the Global South.
Organized around three key axes—Life, Design, and Imagination—DigiSUR provides a space for reflection, research, action, and speculation on technology in its broadest sense. Our work spans from the study of social media platforms, information infrastructures, digital art, and artificial intelligence to analyses of the social and environmental effects of technological adoption within communities.
Beyond mapping the complex landscapes of life with technologies in the Global South, we aim to intervene, reimagine, and create alternatives through creative projects and artistic expressions. We do so by drawing on rich and rigorous insights from a range of disciplines. Attentive to technology and society, design, and cultural institutions, DigiSUR distinguishes itself through its interdisciplinary and collaborative approach as well as its commitment to theoretical and methodological innovation.
DigiSUR Faculty Chairs
Edgar Gómez-Cruz
Associate Professor, School of Information
Interests: Digital culture, digital ethnography, visual culture, critical data studies, Latin America
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Iván Chaar López
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Interests: Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Science & Technology Studies; art and visual culture; borderlands, capital, history of technology (especially electronics and computing); imperial formations; Latina/o lifeworlds and knowledge production; media archaeology; racial formation
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Contact
Caroline Garriott, LLILAS Public Engagement Coordinator, caroline.garriott@austin.utexas.edu