Google Variations are an open series of approximations to diverse aspects of Google. It is a collection of formal and conceptual micro-experiments, a fly-eyed view on an entity so pervasive that tends to become invisible, while it radically changes our everyday lives.
Doodl is a generative application that transforms photographs into drawings by means of a semi-autonomous process where you can control many variables – or just relax and watch it develop.
Wish Café is a device for the collective construction of a map of human desire. It is a social network where participants are defined by their wishes, and only by them.
An online database and virtual exhibition of Argentine artists, formed by the choices of the artists themselves. It features a dynamic Flash visualization of the network.
Fragments from The Quixote and the news of the day according to the BBC tangle into each other in a generative drawing that mixes them beyond recognition.
Biots are simple autonomous agents that move according to relational rules. These are drafts for the project of making a kind of zoo of autonomous agents or a virtual fauna of dots moving in space.
During year 2010 I had the stimulating pleasure of being interviewed two times for the wonderful online magazine Digimag. The interviewer was in both cases the architect, journalist, restless thinker and new friend Jeremy Levine.
Recientemente fui entrevistado en el contexto de dos interesantes iniciativas argentinas: por Victoria Messi para El pez eléctrico y por Lila Pagola para Proyecto Nómade.
On November 2009 I had the wonderful opportunity of taking part in Visualizar ’09, a workshop on data visualization organized in Madrid, Spain, by Medialab Prado.
Próximamente me voy a dar el gusto de dictar un taller sobre uno de mis temas favoritos. El título: "Sistemas generativos: cómo adiestrar a la computadora para que haga arte en lugar de uno".
Some time ago I was contacted by some students from the Architecture School at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in Santiago, Chile. They asked me for some generative images for the cover of a book they were about to publish.
A new generative experiment is just out of the oven. Here’s the recipe: a swarm of autonomous particles and some hidden attractors that exert different kinds of influence on them.
Durante la preparación del taller sobre Net Art que estoy dictando en el Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, confirmé una sospecha: los desarrollos teóricos sobre el tema son escasos y difíciles de encontrar.