About Amplify DAI

Amplify DAI is an editorial platform for digital art and experimental electronic music, built around a curatorial perspective rooted in Buenos Aires and oriented toward a global conversation. We publish artist profiles, practical resources, and critical writing on the intersections of artificial intelligence, generative art, live coding, and sound synthesis.

History

Amplify DAI began in 2017 as an independent editorial initiative in Buenos Aires, developed out of ongoing documentation work around the Latin American digital arts and experimental electronic music scenes. In 2018, the project was formalised as a co-funded programme with the British Council and MUTEK — the Montréal-based festival of digital creativity and electronic music, with active editions in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Santiago, and Mexico City. Under that institutional structure, the platform ran until 2025, building over six years a network of artist profiles, cross-residency documentation, and trilingual editorial output across Spanish, English, and French.

When the institutional programme concluded in 2025, Valentina Rueda — who had collaborated with Amplify DAI since 2019 as curator and Latin American content coordinator — took the decision to continue the project independently. The name, editorial philosophy, and artist archive were preserved. The institutional dependency was not. The platform you are reading is that continuation: not a frozen archive but an active editorial project, still adding artists, updating profiles, and publishing new resources.

Editorial Approach

Our curation combines three axes: technical rigour, geographic representation, and a critical perspective on gender and access. We do not publish profiles because an artist has more followers or more awards — we publish profiles when the work has something to teach about how digital art practice is being constructed today. Consistency and specificity of practice matter more than stream counts or institutional validation.

Latin America is the geographic centre of our attention, without that implying exclusivity. The scene in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Santiago is in permanent conversation with Montréal, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. That conversation — its frictions, its exchanges, its visibility asymmetries — is what we are interested in documenting. We pay particular attention to the representation of women and non-binary artists in a field that has historically skewed in one direction.

The resources we publish in the resources section are aimed at artists working with tools like SuperCollider, Max/MSP, TouchDesigner, p5.js, and Eurorack modular synthesis. Every resource carries an explicit level indicator — beginner, intermediate, or advanced — because we do not want to waste anyone’s time with unnecessary introductions to what they already know.

The Team

Valentina Rueda is a digital art curator and cultural journalist based in Buenos Aires. She studied Graphic Design at FADU-UBA and completed a postgraduate specialisation in Digital Media at the Centro Metropolitano de Diseño (Buenos Aires). She has covered digital art and experimental electronic music festivals in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil since 2015, and has collaborated with Amplify DAI since its institutional phase. She edits the platform and writes artist profiles in Spanish.

Léa Tremblay is a cultural journalist based in Montréal. She studied Communication and Cultural Studies at Concordia University. Since 2016 she has covered MUTEK Montréal as journalist and critic, with a focus on live performance, generative systems, and AI-assisted composition. She contributes English and French content to Amplify DAI, with particular attention to North American electronic arts and its connections to Latin America.

For collaboration proposals, factual corrections, artist suggestions, or editorial enquiries: [email protected]. We respond to all messages, though not always quickly.