Interactive Storyteller Towards Social Change
Golden Home is a collective storytelling project happening in Boston neighborhoods exploring how they are coping and experiencing the accelerated changes brought about by rapid development. The Project is pilot at Egleston Square and Hyde Square Jackson during summer 2018. The goal is to spark …
As part of the City of Boston’s Artist in Residency, at the Hyde Park Center for Youth and Family, I worked with community members and taught electronics and coding to create ownership and understand identity throughout technology. We created art and poetry using code and …
I led the students from Urbano Project through a creative data collection process that employed readily available tools such as cellphones to interview the Egleston Square business Community. From barbershops and accessories shops to restaurants and offices, the youth documented the impact of gentrification in …
The United States has a different meaning and feeling depending on your cultural background. Where are you in the world? As an immigrant, I have my definition. I wanted to expand on this simple question. Could you describe with one word the US? I used …
I started working with poppies a few years ago when I meet young people in the Boston area devastated by heroin. They didn’t know where it came from or even less the consequences on the environment in Colombia. Inspired by these facts, I grew poppy …
Documentary Website, Interactive Installations 2009/2010 ITP Spring Show New York University Close Up Installation Interactive installation and social research working with middle school kids from Santa Fe and New York. They learn interview skills to do interviews and work with the cameras to create a …
The term fractal was created by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975. He defined fractals as “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole”. Fractals have a small structure at a …
The stark black and white juxtaposition of the two elements is intended to highlight the glaring inconsistency between the United States’ promises of boundless opportunity and the stark realities many immigrants face. As raids, deportations, and detention centers grow dramatically in number along the increasingly …