semipermeable [syringe]

2024, video, performance and installation, Spanish/English

This engagement with corporate generative AI exposes its constraints by probing its refusals to depict certain penetrabilities: the cell invaded by a virus, the US/Mexico border crossed, the mouth opened to a tongue, the skin pierced by a syringe. These omissions, shaped by the cultural and geopolitical biases embedded in prompts and datasets, generate distortions-feverish, sensorial images where love, sexuality, and the death drive converge. The imagery is further altered through custom computational tools for audiovisual signal processing.

excerpts

4K video, 20 minutes

2025
FIVIA - Festival International de Vidéo et Intelligence Artificielle / The City of Innovation and Knowledge, Laboratoire d’Études en Sciences des Arts, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Ripple Effect, group exhibition, curators: Eric Souther, Jacklyn Brickman / ArtPrize, Resonant Gallery, Western Michigan University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2024
32º MixBrasil - Festival for a Culture of Diversity: XR Exhibition, group exhibition, curator: André Fischer / MIS – Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, MixBrasil Cultural Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil

Entropies and Fabulations, group exhibition, curators: Lucas Bambozzi, Fernando Velásquez / MOLA – Art Science and Technology, Canteiro Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil

semipermeable [syringe]

Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil

PF casa de estudos, Curitiba, Brazil

audiovisual performance
processing performed in custom software

2024
Celebration of MixBrasil Queer Icon Bruce LaBruce - at Vermelho Gallery, performance program, curator: André Fischer / Vermelho Gallery, MixBrasil - Festival for a Culture of Diversity, São Paulo, Brazil

PF 10 ANOS, performance program / PF casa de estudos, Curitiba, Brazil Golden Saguaro – Multimedia Acts, performance program / Golden Saguaro, Tucson, Arizona

audiovisual performance
processing performed in custom software

2024
Celebration of MixBrasil Queer Icon Bruce LaBruce - at Vermelho Gallery, performance program, curator: André Fischer / Vermelho Gallery, MixBrasil - Festival for a Culture of Diversity, São Paulo, Brazil

PF 10 ANOS, performance program / PF casa de estudos, Curitiba, Brazil Golden Saguaro – Multimedia Acts, performance program / Golden Saguaro, Tucson, Arizona

Ponto de Fuga Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil

real-time generative video, 8K two-channel installation
processing automated in custom software

2024
Semipermeable, solo exhibition, curator: Fernando Velásquez / Ponto de Fuga Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil

funding, project semipermeable

Udall Center Faculty Fellowship 2025 / Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Udall Foundation, University of Arizona

Mellon-Fronteridades Faculty Fellowship 2024 / Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Arizona

Production Grant 2023 and Hispanic Serving Institution Seed Grant 2024 / Research, Innovation and Impact, Technology Research Initiative Fund, Improving Health Initiative, University of Arizona

laboratories/residencies

Visual Arts Residency 2024 / PF Casa de Estudos, Curitiba, Brazil

MOLA - Art, Science and Technology 2024, research laboratory / MOLA, Canteiro Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil

Media Arts Residency 2023 / IEA - Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art and Design, NYSCC Alfred University, New York