Templo Mayor

Templo Mayor 2021-2022 Drawing. Archive project 2 Charcoal drawings, made in 2 cardboard boxes for archiving. Tlaloc, god of rain, and Huitzilopochtli, god of war, were the deities to whom the Templo Mayor (which was the centre of Mexica religious and political life in the heart of present-day Mexico City) was dedicated. The drawings areContinue reading Templo Mayor

Aura in flashback

Aura in flashback 2021 Mono channel video Aesthetic exercise. This reflection arose for new mechanisms that the laws against copyright cannot touch or reach. Essay about the evocative power of cinematographic memory; Hacking the filmmaker’s (and the viewer’s) gaze that confronts on a common screen in resistance to intellectual property policies. Film made with instructionsContinue reading Aura in flashback

Ouroboros

Ouroboros 2018 Ouroboros is a symbol that is represented with an animal (generally of form or proximity to a serpent) that engulfs its own tail. It symbolizes the eternal effort, eternal struggle or useless effort; the cyclical nature of things. The eternal return that begins again despite the actions to prevent it. From Nietzsche’s textsContinue reading Ouroboros

Imagination as an aesthetic resource in the age of Artificial Intelligence and the Post internet.

Imagination as an aesthetic resource in the age of Artificial Intelligence and the Post internet. Abstract. From an aesthetic exercise, Aura in flashback (2021) where I quoted sequences as text to stimulate the cinematographic memory file that we have ; I continue with the practice, but now towards the imaginative stimulus of the spectator. SimilarContinue reading Imagination as an aesthetic resource in the age of Artificial Intelligence and the Post internet.

An aesthetic proposal of appropriation or the hacked aura

An aesthetic proposal of appropriation or the hacked aura Analysis of the aesthetic exercise from the short film Aura in flashback, generated as a response to the reforms,  imposed in Mexico in 2020, about copyright and intellectual property. This analysis questions Walter Benjamin’s concept of Aura, applying it under McKenzie Warck’s postulates on hacktivism. ItContinue reading An aesthetic proposal of appropriation or the hacked aura

Coalescence

Coalescence 2010 Multimedia scene project in collaboration with Magdalena Martínez Franco Coalescence is a Performance – Multimedia Dance. Scenic project that includes a 3-sided structure. The structure is mobile and its dimensions are 2.50 meters high by 2.50 meters wide per side. The structure is composed of more than 400 magnifying glasses of plastic (eachContinue reading Coalescence

untitled, subtitled

untitled. subtitled 2015 Video installation with 2 screens. Facing each other holding a conversation. Reflecting as if they were self-aware. The dialogues are taken from several fiction films. The debate of both screens is about concepts of reality, fiction and the relationship of both as media frontiers. The observer is between both screens (as ifContinue reading untitled, subtitled

Sunday, July 29, 1923

Sunday, July 29, 1923 2017 Expanded jewelry project in collaboration with goldsmith Michaela González A case is a small box or wrap that is used to store things. It is generally used for small objects of a certain value.             This piece known as The Cosmic Star is a silverContinue reading Sunday, July 29, 1923

Apoptosis

Apoptosis 2019-2022 Interactive audiovisual installation Apoptosis is a pathway of cell auto destruction or programmed cell death, and it’s caused by the same organism. This happens when the cell is no longer needed or is damaged; we can say that the cell recognizes that «its time to die has come» and in this way stabilizesContinue reading Apoptosis