CLASSROOM MULTI-SENSORY PRACTICES
FOR COLLABORATIVE LIVEABLE WORLDS
Our communities and artistic spaces have the potential for creative collaborations to build on and strengthen grassroots social change. Through spaces of creative communion and dialogue, artists and communities can forge relationships central to transforming our world. By deepening, building, and reshaping our relationships to one another and to other elements of the natural world, art has the ability to create unpredictable social transformation.
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Our communities and artistic spaces have the potential for creative collaborations to build on and strengthen grassroots social change. Through spaces of creative communion and dialogue, artists and communities can forge relationships central to transforming our world. By deepening, building, and reshaping our relationships to one another and to other elements of the natural world, art has the ability to create unpredictable social transformation.
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2022- ongoing
sound studies,environmental humanities
sound studies,environmental humanities
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UNDERSTANDINGS OF UNCERTAINTY
Uncertainty is seen as a negative word, It should not. Uncertainty cannot be fully contained nor regulated. Dynamic engagements that take on everyday life unfold in an unpredictable way. As humans we shift in moods, aims, and levels of intimacy, without intentionally seeking these changes. Human creativity is marked by imagination and thinking of things that were not thought of before. Creative innovations that have come to define and revolutionize the world, from music to medicine, are often marked by surprise, spontaneity, and uncertainty. Creativity, by definition, defies expectations.
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Uncertainty is seen as a negative word, It should not. Uncertainty cannot be fully contained nor regulated. Dynamic engagements that take on everyday life unfold in an unpredictable way. As humans we shift in moods, aims, and levels of intimacy, without intentionally seeking these changes. Human creativity is marked by imagination and thinking of things that were not thought of before. Creative innovations that have come to define and revolutionize the world, from music to medicine, are often marked by surprise, spontaneity, and uncertainty. Creativity, by definition, defies expectations.
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2022- ongoing
design research,
digital humanities
design research,
digital humanities
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THE ART LAB FOR BIODIVERSITY CHRONOLOGIES
How might students participate at multiple scales with greater awareness of the biodiversity data’s latent anthropometric, spatial, dimensional, and relational capacities? In turn, how might students, and young people more effectively recognize, and experiment with, in translating and reproducing such experiences (including art, design, writing) into widely-accessible visualizations/multi-sensorial experiences at different scales and in multiple formats?
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How might students participate at multiple scales with greater awareness of the biodiversity data’s latent anthropometric, spatial, dimensional, and relational capacities? In turn, how might students, and young people more effectively recognize, and experiment with, in translating and reproducing such experiences (including art, design, writing) into widely-accessible visualizations/multi-sensorial experiences at different scales and in multiple formats?
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2022- ongoing
sound studies, environmental humanities
sound studies, environmental humanities
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I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHEN RESILIENCE ENDS:
EXPANDED ECOLOGIES OF COLLABORATIVE SURVIVAL
In an effort to bolster counterhegemonic technologies and reflect on collaborative survival to alter the status quo by looking beyond ecologies where resilience is a mere complaint of the unbearable heaviness of systemic subjugations: When does resilience end when we are depleted?
Expanded Ecologies of Collaborative Survival explores the generation of community relations from a queer ecologies perspective where art is the medium between extractivism, affections, and technology.
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EXPANDED ECOLOGIES OF COLLABORATIVE SURVIVAL
In an effort to bolster counterhegemonic technologies and reflect on collaborative survival to alter the status quo by looking beyond ecologies where resilience is a mere complaint of the unbearable heaviness of systemic subjugations: When does resilience end when we are depleted?
Expanded Ecologies of Collaborative Survival explores the generation of community relations from a queer ecologies perspective where art is the medium between extractivism, affections, and technology.
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2023- ongoing
sound studies, environmental humanities
sound studies, environmental humanities
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MY BODY DOES NOT RUN ON GREGORIAN TIME
My expansive project called “My Body Does Not Run on Gregorian Time“ in which I explore the technoecologies of the body, meaning the changes in labor are inseparable from transformations in the material, ecological health, cognitive, and affective body, thus bringing a new understanding of ecological systems. How the labor machine and its constant demands and changes in the search for ultimate productivity, and unbounded efficiency, are also constantly redefining our bodies, healthcare, illness, impairment, and disabilities within the complexities of history, time, temporalities, and futurities.
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My expansive project called “My Body Does Not Run on Gregorian Time“ in which I explore the technoecologies of the body, meaning the changes in labor are inseparable from transformations in the material, ecological health, cognitive, and affective body, thus bringing a new understanding of ecological systems. How the labor machine and its constant demands and changes in the search for ultimate productivity, and unbounded efficiency, are also constantly redefining our bodies, healthcare, illness, impairment, and disabilities within the complexities of history, time, temporalities, and futurities.
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2022- ongoing
accessibility studies, sound studies
accessibility studies, sound studies
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JUN 2021
sound studies, political ecology, design research, environmental humanities
sound studies, political ecology, design research, environmental humanities
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LISTENING TO THE CITY
FROM WITHIN:
DATAFICATION AND THE SENSORIAL IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE MAKING
How can I begin to understand the growing multi-database platforms embedded in cities that are ever-changing culturally, politically, and physically? And how might I experience the possibility of ‘openness’ and fluidity of the networked city while making this knowledge accessible to all levels of an inquiring society?
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FROM WITHIN:
DATAFICATION AND THE SENSORIAL IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE MAKING
How can I begin to understand the growing multi-database platforms embedded in cities that are ever-changing culturally, politically, and physically? And how might I experience the possibility of ‘openness’ and fluidity of the networked city while making this knowledge accessible to all levels of an inquiring society?
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2020- 2021
sound studies
sound studies
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EMBODYING ABUNDANCE:
THE WATER SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENTS IN MEXICO MAP A NEW WORLD BEYOND THE SCARCITY
The histories of drought, are histories of dispossession
The primacy of vision in Mexican media makes little room for disbelief as every channel shows the same images of draught over and over again. This imminent drought the news anchors have warned us about for years is a reality now as an aerial photograph shows an emptied dam. Until recent years, in the public, colonial imaginaries of Nuevo Leon, a Mexican state widely known as one of the richest and most in denial of indigenous struggles, the shortage of water appeared a distant scenario, a fabulation about other places in Mexico. However, in capitalism, privilege does not exclude the possibility of a constant sense of scarcity— and water is a permeable entity surging across memories, time, and histories of scarcity.
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THE WATER SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENTS IN MEXICO MAP A NEW WORLD BEYOND THE SCARCITY
The histories of drought, are histories of dispossession
The primacy of vision in Mexican media makes little room for disbelief as every channel shows the same images of draught over and over again. This imminent drought the news anchors have warned us about for years is a reality now as an aerial photograph shows an emptied dam. Until recent years, in the public, colonial imaginaries of Nuevo Leon, a Mexican state widely known as one of the richest and most in denial of indigenous struggles, the shortage of water appeared a distant scenario, a fabulation about other places in Mexico. However, in capitalism, privilege does not exclude the possibility of a constant sense of scarcity— and water is a permeable entity surging across memories, time, and histories of scarcity.
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2022