The Andean Information Age — Oscar Santillán and Alessandra Troncone

here are so many things that can be exalted in the name of modern science, but perhaps many more continue to be shadowed in its name. It is precisely this type of Western science that artist Oscar Santillán intends to counterbalance, using his idea of Antimundo (“Anti-world”) wherein "[s]cience, fiction, and indigenous terraforming articulate together a matrix.” According to his website, Antimundo is “a way of identifying or generating realities that do not fit in our current world,” “a critical set of tools for spotting the edges of the world” that (2021), a publication created by Santillán and the art historian and curator Alessandra Troncone, with support of the Organizzazione Internazionale Italo-Latino Americana.