Collaborations
Exotico Noreste Collective
A collective of artists from Monterrey, Mexico operating internationally from 1996 – 2003.
Exotico Noreste worked on projects from alternative spaces to showcase the work, to taking over a department store surveillance video system to project videos and animations to the shoppers. We exhibited in Monterrey, Italy and in Argentina.
Floating Lab Collective
Founded in 2007, the Floating Lab Collective is a large evolving collective of artists based in Fairfax, VA. The collective continues today in partnership with George Mason University Provisions Library.
Icebox Collective
Ongoing collaboration with an art collective of artists located in the Washington, DC metro area.
I’ve contributed to all three iterations of the transformative Nomadic House Project, where we’ve used the universal symbol of home to reflect on the concept of home, shelter and displacement. Each iteration has focused on a different challenge and or aproach of crrent events using the steel framework of the house as the one continuous element.
Exotico Noreste Collective
A collective of artists from Monterrey, Mexico operating internationally from 1996 – 2003.
Exotico Noreste worked on projects from alternative spaces to showcase the work, to taking over a department store surveillance video system to project videos and animations to the shoppers. We exhibited in Monterrey, Italy and in Argentina.
Floating Lab Collective
Founded in 2007, the Floating Lab Collective is a large evolving collective of artists based in Fairfax, VA. The collective continues today in partnership with George Mason University Provisions Library.
With the Floating Lab Collective, I took part in performance work that tackled governmental issues across borders, including the Protesting on Demand project at the TransitioMX Digital Arts Festival that connected protests at the White House and Mexico City’s Zocalo Plaza through a live feed showed live a the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum in downtown Mexico City.
Icebox Collective
Ongoing collaboration with an art collective of artists located in the Washington, DC metro area.
I’ve contributed to all three iterations of the transformative Nomadic House Project, where we’ve used the universal symbol of home to reflect on the concept of home, shelter and displacement. Each iteration has focused on a different challenge and or aproach of crrent events using the steel framework of the house as the one continuous element.
Exotico Noreste Collective
A collective of artists from Monterrey, Mexico operating internationally from 1996 – 2003.
Exotico Noreste worked on projects from alternative spaces to showcase the work, to taking over a department store surveillance video system to project videos and animations to the shoppers. We exhibited in Monterrey, Italy and in Argentina.
Floating Lab Collective
Founded in 2007, the Floating Lab Collective is a large evolving collective of artists based in Fairfax, VA. The collective continues today in partnership with George Mason University Provisions Library.
With the Floating Lab Collective, I took part in performance work that tackled governmental issues across borders, including the Protesting on Demand project at the TransitioMX Digital Arts Festival that connected protests at the White House and Mexico City’s Zocalo Plaza through a live feed showed live a the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum in downtown Mexico City.
Icebox Collective
Ongoing collaboration with an art collective of artists located in the Washington, DC metro area.
I’ve contributed to all three iterations of the transformative Nomadic House Project, where we’ve used the universal symbol of home to reflect on the concept of home, shelter and displacement. Each iteration has focused on a different challenge and or aproach of crrent events using the steel framework of the house as the one continuous element.
Exótico Noroeste Collective - Security, 2007
In the early 2000s, as surveillance technology rapidly evolved—years before the iPhone transformed our relationship with screens—Exotico Noreste Collective took on the systems designed to watch us.
The Liverpool Department Store surrendered their closed-circuit security monitors to art
We were excited to have convinced this high end department store to create performance art. Instead of grainy footage of shoppers and aisles, Liverpool‘s customers saw our video art through their tools of surveillance. The screens meant to enforce control became our canvases for creative expression.
My contribution, Clips and Caps, brought dynamic rhythm an explosive color to these utilitarian monitors. Working with composer Fernando Villalvazo on a custom score, we transformed surveillance screens into something alive – pulsing with energy that contrasted sharply with the static nature of security footage.
In the early 2000s, as surveillance technology rapidly evolved—years before the iPhone transformed our relationship with screens—Exotico Noreste Collective took on the systems designed to watch us. We convinced the high end Liverpool Department Store in Monterrey, Mexico to
surrender their closed-circuit security monitors to ART
Instead of grainy footage of shoppers and aisles, customers saw our video art through their tools of surveillance. The screens meant to enforce control became our canvases for creative expression.
My contribution, Clips and Caps, brought dynamic rhythm and explosive color to these utilitarian monitors. Working with composer Fernando Villalvazo on a custom score, we transformed surveillance screens into something alive—pulsing with energy that contrasted sharply with the static nature of security footage.
In the early 2000s, as surveillance technology rapidly evolved—years before the iPhone transformed our relationship with screens—Exotico Noreste Collective took on the systems designed to watch us.
We convinced Liverpool Department Store in Monterrey, Mexico to surrender their closed-circuit security monitors to art.
Instead of grainy footage of shoppers and aisles, customers encountered our video artworks playing across the surveillance infrastructure. The screens meant to enforce control became canvases for creative expression.
My contribution, Clips and Caps, brought dynamic rhythm and explosive color to these utilitarian monitors. Working with composer Fernando Villalvazo on a custom score, we transformed surveillance screens into something alive—pulsing with energy that contrasted sharply with the static nature of security footage.
Floating Lab Collective - Transitio MX, 2007
With the Floating Lab Collective, I took part in performance work that tackled governmental issues across borders.
We created a binational performance for Transitio MX, simultaneously staged at the White House and Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza.
The project invited people on the street to deliver a three-minute protest on any pressing issues.
We also deployed a mobile protest cabin to various public spaces throughout the city, where individuals could record their thoughts on video in a private setting.
The simultaneous feed provided a telling insight into the cultural differences and priorities.
The live feeds from both locations were broadcast at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum, augmented by compiled video from spontaneous street protests.
This performance piece was a collaboration with the Floating Lab Collective in 2007 for the Transitio MX festival. The work, Protesting on Demand, was originally produced in DC and then was tailored for the Transitio MX International Electronic and Video Arts Festival 2: Nomadic Borders.
With the Floating Lab Collective, I took part in performance work that tackled governmental issues across borders.
We created a binational performance for Transitio MX, simultaneously staged at the White House and Mexico City’s Zócalo Plaza. The project invited people on the street to deliver a three-minute protest on any pressing issues.
We also deployed a mobile protest cabin to various public spaces throughout the city, where individuals could record their thoughts on video in a private setting. The simultaneous feed provided a telling insight into the cultural differences and priorities.
Live feeds from both locations were broadcast at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum, augmented by compiled video from spontaneous street protests.
This performance piece was a collaboration with the Floating Lab Collective in 2007 for the Transitio MX festival. The work, Protesting on Demand, was originally produced in DC and then was tailored for the Transitio MX International Electronic and Video Arts Festival 2: Nomadic Borders.
Icebox Collective - Nomadic House Project, 2017- present
The Platform, 2020
Acts of Forgetting & Remembering, 2021
Cloud(s), 2022
La Casa Benito, 2025
Each installation used the same foundation but took it somewhere new. One focused on displacement from war, another on immigration, and the last on diversity, democracy and human rights. As a collective, each artist brought their own viewpoint to these shared themes.
The installations worked together as a series, each addressing different aspects of what it means to have—or lose—a place to call home.
