IAP at MIT CAVS   Cambridge, MA   January 2007

Retina Scan was developed during the On Blindness - The Seeing Project, a seminar headed by Elizabeth Goldring, senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies in MIT.

It is intended to create a 'degenerative interface', in which images cannot be seen in full, but only through small and moving fragments of unclear significance. Users are provided with the opportunity to 'scan' and move the visual fragments, in an attempt to combine all pieces into a single and a different visual experience.

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University of London Central Saint Martins   London   2006

 
New Hybrids is an experimental project that is inspired by recent technologies involving the process of hybridization, currently widespread in our society.

The work searches to create new realities derived from photographs of images found in our nearby environment (such as forests and trees). The original 'real' images are broken down into small units, reassembled, hybridized with photographs of the human eye (iris, optical lens, retina) and eventually these new hybrids are printed and realized into paintings.

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Finalist Artists   London   May 2006

 
The work developed for the Celeste Art Prize is based on the installation Getting Closer and Getting Further Away, which investigates ideas such as growth, expansion and infinity through a digital transformation process of images obtained from our nearby environment. Images are realized into a 'conversation' between photographic and scientific digital prints, acrylic painting, collages and their respective surfaces.

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Amnesty International Action Center   London   September 2005

 
Looking at Things responds to Amnesty International's specific call in June 2005 against a sentence of eye gouging to a young man from Iran. The work presents the viewer with an imaginative 'ocular globe' in order to encourage the debate around the potential role of our vision in sustaining the physical and humanitarian environment in which we live in. The 'ocular globe' is constructed by digital images of the artist's retina that were digitally 'broken' into small pieces (suggestive of a shredded eye) and were later assembled into a new image and a new reality to reflect upon.

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