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PUBLICATIONS
#1
MIT Reality Hack Art Grant
Awarded the MIT Reality Hack Art Grant to showcase my interactive installation Time Machines. I built gesture and MIDI-controlled visuals that explored urban machines, the history embedded in architecture, and generative systems. The project reflects on how technology and time shape the streets of New York as living timelines of progress and decay.
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#2
Featured on OpenArt
The Dance of Nature was featured on OpenArt for its integration of generative AI and storytelling. The film blends human direction with machine-assisted visuals to explore empathy, transformation, and motion. The recognition highlights my ongoing interest in how algorithms can extend creative expression while staying grounded in human emotion.
PUBLICATIONS
#3
Design, AI & Education Host
I hosted and curated Design, AI & Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College in collaboration with La Diseñería. The discussion brought together educators, artists, and technologists to reflect on how artificial intelligence is changing creative learning and how design can promote cultural understanding within emerging digital spaces.
PUBLICATIONS
#4
Featured Project on FLUX PCB
FLUX PCB spotlighted my Indigenous Storyteller project, a prototype that uses AI and geolocation to share regional oral histories. Built through physical computing and interaction design, the device connects technology with memory, allowing users to experience storytelling that is tied to both place and culture.
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#5
Featured on ElevenLabs
Featured on ElevenLabs for James, a virtual event moderator that answered audience questions in real time during a panel discussion at Columbia’s Teachers College. The project demonstrated how voice AI and dialogue systems can enhance accessibility, engagement, and participation in live hybrid events.
PUBLICATIONS
#6
Microsoft Garage Exhibit
My installation Artificial Us, created with Matías Piña, was exhibited at Microsoft Garage . The work combines fine-tuned image generation models, body-tracking, and generative systems to visualize the extractive cycle from the Global South that feeds modern generative models.
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#7
Google Creative Tech Fellow
As a Creative Technologist Fellow at Google Brand Studio, I collaborate on projects that merge storytelling, design, and engineering. My work focuses on transforming complex ideas into intuitive experiences that feel human and alive, applying the same experimental approach I bring to installations and interactive art.
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#8
Speaker at Creative Tech NY
I spoke at Creative Tech New York 2025, presenting Creative Strategies for Culturally Aware AI: Moving Beyond the Bias. The talk addressed responsible AI practice in design, exploring how curating local data and training inclusive models can challenge dominant narratives and foster more representative creative technologies.
PUBLICATIONS
#9
MIT MediaLab AI Film Hackathon Finalist
Created The Dance of Nature for the MIT AI Film Hackathon 2025, a short film blending AI-generated imagery with underwater cinematography. The piece portrays the beauty and fragility of marine ecosystems while reflecting on humanity’s role in disrupting nature’s rhythm. It was selected as a finalist for its poetic and visual storytelling.
MFA Design and Technology
