Highliht | Since 2017
Electrotextil Prehispanic Computer
“This project, by revitalizing these historically oppressed cultural technologies, challenges the dominant narratives imposed by colonialism. It brings to the present questions and uncertainties about our past, while opening up possibilities for more inclusive, fair, and sustainable technological imaginaries through Latin American artistic speculation.”
Highliht | Since 2018
A Healing Ritual Through Metal and Ice
“A massive formation of rock, metal and a diversity of minerals, operating as a high reception device, has been receiving and sending signals of distress. The Andean antenna, the antenna that I am as an electromagnetic body and the synthesizer I hold in my hands, have been intercepting a lament comming from the core of the Earth. An ancient response its being sent from a faraway distance beyond Neptune’s orbit…“
2014
Wearable Antenna
“It is necessary that all figural structures be understood as emitting and receiving a beam of directed waves that propagates from one tower to another through clouds and mist; the whole is beautiful in relation to this invisible, insensitive and real, current transmission… This type of beauty is as abstract as that of a geometric construction, and the function of the technical object needs to be understood so that its structure, and the relationship of this structure with the world, are correctly imagined and aesthetically perceived.”
Gilbert Simondon
2020
Electronic Dress
“Heroína is a dance performance that showcases an interactive dress with textile electronics, designed to respond to environmental stimuli and body movements. Through the female body, Heroína expands the possibilities of human interaction with the environment, suggesting the superhuman qualities of a superheroine. The piece reflects on the integration of gadgets and technological prosthetics that merge human anatomy with the machine.”
