Series of 3 prints from live performance — select one from three variations. White frame with hanging hardware on back of frame.
“Dimensional Bodies, Drawing Air, Painting on Paper, Automated Version” (2024)
Live Performance, Computer, Arduino, Touch Designer, CNC Plotter, Photographic Developer, Brush, Photographic Black and White Paper
As a migrant artist weaving through different cultural and technological spaces, her work bridges the analog, the digital, and the organic by merging media such as alternative photography with live performance. Through direct engagement with cybernetics, she encourages a dynamic interplay between her presence and computational processes, interfacing directly with the machine via physical movement, personifying a concept called ‘the mestiza cyborg.’
This exploration materializes through a CNC plotter as a photo-developing machine. Her real-time hand movements are converted into XY coordinates and sent to an Arduino-controlled mechanism that dispenses photographic developer into a brush with a dripping system that pours the chemical onto light-sensitive paper. During her performance, she moves her hands in ways that reflect her memories—distant landscapes intertwined with the possibilities and limitations of her body, her site of resistance.
How do we translate the body as a site of existential and political emergence? The answer lies in an ongoing negotiation of social identities that are fluid, continuously shaped by lived experiences, enacting what Latinx philosopher Mariana Ortega describes as the “being-between-worlds”; a multiplicitous self that found a method of survival by navigating the different environments that art and technology provide—exploring telepresence by pushing the corporeal boundaries, rethinking the definition of a human who experiences marginalization in the 21st century.
Series of 3 prints from live performance — select one from three variations. White frame with hanging hardware on back of frame.
“Dimensional Bodies, Drawing Air, Painting on Paper, Automated Version” (2024)
Live Performance, Computer, Arduino, Touch Designer, CNC Plotter, Photographic Developer, Brush, Photographic Black and White Paper
As a migrant artist weaving through different cultural and technological spaces, her work bridges the analog, the digital, and the organic by merging media such as alternative photography with live performance. Through direct engagement with cybernetics, she encourages a dynamic interplay between her presence and computational processes, interfacing directly with the machine via physical movement, personifying a concept called ‘the mestiza cyborg.’
This exploration materializes through a CNC plotter as a photo-developing machine. Her real-time hand movements are converted into XY coordinates and sent to an Arduino-controlled mechanism that dispenses photographic developer into a brush with a dripping system that pours the chemical onto light-sensitive paper. During her performance, she moves her hands in ways that reflect her memories—distant landscapes intertwined with the possibilities and limitations of her body, her site of resistance.
How do we translate the body as a site of existential and political emergence? The answer lies in an ongoing negotiation of social identities that are fluid, continuously shaped by lived experiences, enacting what Latinx philosopher Mariana Ortega describes as the “being-between-worlds”; a multiplicitous self that found a method of survival by navigating the different environments that art and technology provide—exploring telepresence by pushing the corporeal boundaries, rethinking the definition of a human who experiences marginalization in the 21st century.
