Exótico Noroeste Collective

n 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

By placing video art within the actual surveillance apparatus of a commercial space, we didn't just comment on surveillance—we temporarily seized it, asking viewers to reconsider what these screens could show us about ourselves, our society, and the accelerating technological gaze.

TransitioMX - Floating Lab Collective Collaboration

The art piece shown in Transitio MX as a simultaneous performance at the White House in the US and the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City ran over a live feed at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum.

The show incorporated three-minute protests with participants from the street and tackled the many issues facing the U.S. and Mexican governments at the time.

we also edited a video with multimple protest that people made in a mobil cabin que took, around the city in public spaces where people can go iside and video tepe their thoughts in a private video.

This performance piece was a collaboration with the Floating Lab Collective in 2007 for the Transitio MX festival at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Museum in Mexico City. 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.

Bellas Artes in Mexico City Downtown

UNAM University, Mexico City

Nomadic House Project - Icebox Collective

I collaborated with the Icebox Collective on the Nomadic House during the pandemic as people's relationship to home was evolving significantly. We began to explore what home means during uncertain times. We started this series with one basic house structure and used it to create different installations about home, shelter, and displacement.

Cloud(s), 2022

Acts of Forgetting & Remembering, 2021

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.

The Platform, 2020

La Casa Benito, 2025

Transformer, The Nomadic House Project: Acts of Remembering and Forgetting (Satellite), 2022