Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America by Felipe Amin Filomeno (review)
In Chapter 3, on television, the author explores the use of television by both government and artists as a means to communicate messages to the masses. While the military was promoting its highly controlled image of a unified Brazil to televisions in even the most remote households, artists such as Sonia Andrade and Paulo Herkenhoff used the medium as a mechanism in their video art. Finally, in the chapter on maps, Shtromberg analyzes works that investigate spatial boundaries and cartography. In tracing the history of maps of Brazil back to the colonial period, the author underscores the negative effects of different governments’ exploitative interests on different populations and broader notions of territorial identity, and how artists working in the 1970s challenged those interests.