In Chilean transition to democracy, video cameras, formerly used by artists in their quest for social and political denunciation, have been taken by a new generation of audiovisual artists, mostly trained in colleges. Influenced by conceptualist trends, they develop a common rhetoric, different from previous generation because of their experimentation of technical possibilities that this format can provide. Within this generation Guillermo Cifuentes appears as a somewhat diffuse figure, who suddenly died in 2007, not well known by public audience. This paper aims to list Cifuentes' works in video format and identify its characteristic features. W estate that, as he developed a particular language, he is an important author in Chilean art video.
Keywords:
Guillermo Cifuentes, video art, experimental video, Chile
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Arata de Nordenflycht, R., Cabrera Figueroa, N., & Donoso Knaudt, C. (2010). Guillermo Cifuentes’ Video-Art: Language of Rootlessness. Comunicación Y Medios, (22), Pág. 91 – 120. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i22.25869
