Migrant Image

Abstract

The spread of cell phones equipped with digital cameras has meant a radical change in the way social movements are experienced. Cameras no longer only record, but also participate and transform the experience. The resulting images are available to everyone in the virtual spaces generated on the Internet. The intrinsic relationship between image and memory is now a function whose interpretation is more than ever polysemic and subject to permanent re-reading. At the heart of the matter, it is digital technology the one that has come to alter the content of images and our relationship with them. Certain videos produced during the social uprisings in Chile in 2019-2020, show a re-reading of recent national history. By projecting their interpretation of the past to the present they re- signify the developing social movement.