Dr. Yovanna Pineda is an associate professor in the UCF Department of History, specializing in the history of technology and economic history in Argentina. As a historian of industrial capitalism, Pineda works with material culture, ideas, and aesthetics of technology. She is author of Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890-1930 (Stanford, 2009). Her ongoing manuscript, Sensational Machines: Technē Culture in Argentina,Sensational Machines: Technē Culture in Argentina, examines the aesthetics of the design, maintenance, and repair of heavy machinery, such as harvesters and tractors. Drawing on ethnographic methods, archival sources, oral histories, rumor, social media, and material culture, this transdisciplinary work charts the genealogy of technological culture in Argentina. It analyzes the development of peoples’ emotional and sensory meanings of cutting-edge technology during the 20th century. Dr. Pineda also experiments with game design and film for use in her historical research and teaching. https://yovannapineda.com/.
She is co-editing a volume on aesthetics of technology in Latin America with Assistant Professor Diana Montaño (Washington University at St. Louis) and Independent Scholar Lucas Izquierdo. The volume focuses on Latin American technological aesthetics and design through an in-depth exploration of state modernization projects for the urban and rural environments and individual users who reimagined or reconfigured the aesthetics of technological devices as these were domesticated in their context of use. Expanding the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries scholars in the volume (1) explore how these imaginaries are/were informed and are informed by the politics of design and aesthetics (2) underline the way these imaginaries are not only textual but visual and aural, (3) and, how users altered and reinvented the aesthetics/design of technological devices to meet their cultural and personal values, needs and desires. The group will be meeting online during 2022-2023: https://chstm.org/content/aesthetic-and-design-latin-american-technology-0
Yovanna Pineda (2018). Los Contratistas, https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/646706700, Producer and director.
Yovanna Pineda (2022). Spaces of Design & Repair in Twentieth Century Argentine Factories, Histories of Maintenance and Repair Workshop. Université du Luxembourg, C2DH Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, https://repair.uni.lu/blog/spaces-of-design-repair-in-twentieth-century-argentine-factories/
Yovanna Pineda (2020). International and Local Collaboration in the Social Design of the Harvester in Argentina during the Long Twentieth Century (1900-2010). Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL, ISSN 2452-5162), April, 1(1): pp. 70-93.
Yovanna Pineda (2020). VR Middle Passage Experience: Its Significance in History and the BLM Movement of 2020. Original plan for Exhibit & Installation at the City Arts gallery in downtown Orlando, Florida, 16 July – August 15, 2020. Owed to COVID19, exhibit shown as a short film on website directed and produced by Yovanna Pineda, https://yovannapineda.com/virtual-reality/, Producer and director.
Yovanna Pineda (2020). Middle Passage Experience, 1780-1850 (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality) is an interactive VR/AR simulation of the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas. This collaborative project coordinated from 2017-2020 involved faculty and students from History, Africana Studies, Games and Interactive Media, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Computer Science. Website: https://yovannapineda.com/virtual-reality/, Creator and director.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
RESEARCH (SELECTED)
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20151 | LAH4738 | Modern Design in Latin America | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
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81637 | LAH4503 | History of South America | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | M,W 09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Unavailable |
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93300 | LAH4738 | Modern Design in Latin America | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
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51579 | LAH3130 | Latin American History Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | A | Unavailable | |
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11394 | LAH4512 | Modern Argentina | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | M,W 09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Unavailable |
This course examines the fascinating historical life of Argentina, the country and people. Once considered one of the wealthiest top ten nations in the world, it became a model of instability after the Second World War. (i.e., How do you keep functioning despite losing everything again and again?) This nation is constantly moving —the impact of modernization, urban design, immigration, export-led growth, debt, military coups, and industrialization—partially explain Argentina’s unique development across three centuries. Most recently in the 21st century, Argentine regions have effectively adapted to global socio-economic conditions that have devastated other global economies. Despite the global chaos, COVID19, its melting neighbor the Antarctic, and other global disasters, it remains a player in the global economy (G20 country) and a leader in populist and social welfare policies. |
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93523 | HIS4150 | History and Historians | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | M,W 09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Unavailable |
Nerd out on your favorite historical topic, and join the journey of understanding how to do professional, unbiased, rigorous research. | |||||
92233 | LAH4503 | History of South America | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | M,W 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Unavailable |
South America is among one of the most diverse, beautiful places on the planet. Come learn what makes its countries tick, understand its historical legacies and processes. |
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61899 | LAH3130 | Latin American History Ⅰ | Web-Based (W) | B | Unavailable | |
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Updated: Jun 28, 2022