Acevedo·Logy

English Version

This space gathers texts originally written in Spanish. Here you can read my work translated into English, while still preserving the conceptual origin of the project: the language in which these ideas were first formed, before adaptation into another linguistic and cultural frame.

Who?

I am Sandra Acevedo, Licenciada in Art Theory and History from the Universidad de Chile. I research how technology operates as a political actor and how it influences culture as an epistemic epicenter of human expression.

Academic Research

Two texts, one structural question: who gets access, and on whose terms?

NLPgap Research

Research in progress NLP · Cultural Theory Article in development

Anglocentrism in large language models is not a minor technical oversight, it is a structural vector through which cultural biases from the Anglophone world are reproduced as if they were universal values. This research brings Latin American cultural theory into direct dialogue with NLP data curation, proposing a framework to build models that are not merely functional in Spanish, but culturally situated within it.

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Heritage, Identity, and History

Undergraduate thesis Universidad de Chile · 2006 NLPgap foundations

Thesis submitted for the degree of Licenciada en Teoría e Historia del Arte, co-authored with Isabel Ibáñez Figueroa, directed by María Eugenia Brito Astrosa. This work examined how Chilean cultural institutions mediate public access to artistic heritage, arguing that making art formally available, without teaching the codes needed to interpret it, reproduces exclusion rather than democratizing access. The structural question it posed in 2006 is the same question NLPgap poses today.

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Theoretical Essays

Speculative writing at the intersection of critical theory and AI

Cyborg-Phagia

Essay Anthropophagy · LLMs Decolonial theory

What happens when Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagic Manifesto, a decolonial metabolic machine from 1928 Brazil, is placed in dialogue with the operation of large language models? This essay proposes that using AI as a situated user is itself a cannibal practice: consuming the Anglocentric output of the model, metabolizing it, and redirecting it through the logic of a different cultural imaginary.

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