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

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