Maria Fernandez history of digital art collection, 1967-1999.
Collection Number: 8243

María Fernández's research and teaching concern three areas and their intersections: the history and theory of digital and new media art, postcolonial and gender studies and Latin American art and architecture. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press 2014), for which she won the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. With Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright she edited Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices (Autonomedia, 2002). Recently she completed an edited volume titled, "Latin American Modernisms and Technology" which explores diverse engagements of Latin American intellectuals and artists with modern technologies, mechanical, electronic, digital and imaginary (forthcoming, Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities and Africa World Press). Her essays have appeared in multiple journals including Leonardo, Art Journal and Third Text as well as in edited collections.

This collection was assembled by Fernandez over the course of her teaching career and provides an informed snapshot of the history of digital art, from robotics and installation to video art and interactive screen arts. Students, researchers, and artists will have access to primary tapes and documentary videos (some of which have already been digitized) that will provide them with an overview of the history of digital art. Documentaries provide a snapshot of the history of digital art since the mid-1960s. Materials also provide access to the artists' creative and thought processes as well as to their finished products. The items in this collection are intended for use in the research and teaching of Digital Media Art at Cornell University. Selected titles are available for viewing online by the Cornell community.

Maria Fernandez history of digital art collection, #8243. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on our Reproductions and Permissions page.