Try Me is an electronic t-shirt that tweets the meaning of hugs @bomboniahugs.
Hugs are a very popular gesture. We hug to say ‘Hi!’, we hug to mean ‘It's been nice to meet you’ and we also hug to express much more: ‘I’d really love to see you again’, ‘Mmmm you smell so good’ or ‘Who cares if tomorrow never comes’ and we can give those different meanings in a very subtle way just by holding the hug a little longer. Try Me measures that time, figures out the meaning of the hug and sends updates to my account in Twitter.
Try Me has been awarded the Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon at Maker Faire NYC 2010. It's been invited to the International Symposium of Wearable Computers in Seoul 2010, Tokyo University's MetaPerception Group / Ishikawa-Oku Lab and showcased at different venues in NYC like the Gizmodo Show '09, the ITP Spring Show '09, the Media Lounge Show '09, at the Saint Valentine's Chocolate and I in 2010 and at 3LD Art Space in 2011.
Special thanks to Rory Nugent, Rodrigo de Benito and Anaid Ortigosa.
Product: Video art Running time: 2’33”
63 Days Total is a video art piece that depicts my 63-days-quest for love.
Shot at dawn in my bedroom, and my first try at Davinci Resolve, 63 Days Total was entirely made by my broken heart.
Product: Interactive video installation.
Year: 2009.
BYOB stands for Bring Your Own Books and it is an installation where you bring your books and throw them against a wall to see the letters come out, splash and fall to the ground.
For some people it is a great release, for others it represents the transition from the physical book to the digital one. Other visitors just can't throw a book.
Shows: Studio IMC (NYC, 2009), Media Lounge (NYC, 2009) and Maker Faire NY (2010).
In collaboration with Alberto García-Saenz.
Product: Video Art Running time: 5mins
Bonjour Tribeca is a video art piece that depicts a slice of my life, waking up at my friend’s apartment in Tribeca, the most Parisienne neighborhood in Manhattan.
Product: Film photography.
GettyImages contributor.
I started this series in the 90's when the first Alien showed up in my life.
Prints for sale. Ask me about the pricing list, I'll be happy to serve you. Many more pics here.
Product: Video installation.
Year: 2009.
I Want You is an interactive video installation where images are projected onto a blob of smoke and vanish as a visitor gets too close.
I am a very impulsive person and move like a butterfly driven by desires. I wanted to leave the visitor facing that smoke to suggest a pause to re-evaluate the situation before next desire kicks in.
Special thanks to Kirsten Kay Thoen, Ben Barton, Gypsy, Raquel D. Cepero, Alessandra Zeca, Idoya Noain, Bárbara Celis, Angel Chevrest and Rodrigo de Benito.
Role: Founder.
Founded in 2011, OneByOne was an art gallery located in the foyer of my apartment in Alphabet City, Manhattan that gathered artists, geeks, nerds, designers, and collectors around the work of a group of artists interested in interactive design, installations, architecture, soft sculpture, site-specific art, video art, performances, photography, electronic garments, fragrances, critical design.
Artists: Amy Khosbhin, Celina Alvarado, Che-Wei Wang, Junko Shimizu, Janet Kim, Andrea Wolf, Taylor Levy, Erin Kelly, Kirsten Kay Thoen, James Daher, and film maker Benjamin Villeda.
Product: Facebook app.
Client: PNC Bank.
Year: 2012 & 2013
Role: Responsible of the conceptual IA documentation, flows, site maps, user scenarios, wireframes and functional specifications for mobile and desktop platforms.
Awards:
• Shorty Industry Awards finalist 2013.
Neighborhood Wishlist is an initiative to get people interested in their own neighborhoods through a Facebook contest and funded by PNC Bank. With the dynamics of a crowdfunding contest where the funds come from a bank.
The contest was repeated a year later with remarkable success for the community and the brand.
Product: TV documentary.
Client: TVE's Metrópolis (public tv).
Running time: 25 mins.
Year: 2011.
Role: Full production, from curating to editing.
Shot in the Fall of 2010 and premiered in Spain public network in March 2011, Jap_ON shows the multimedia art scene in Japan at the time: either with the use of very sophisticated media or not at all, they are all human centered.
Jap_ON features the work of Tatsuo Miyajima, Ryota Kuwakubo, Daito Manabe, Alvaro Cassinelli, Danielle Wilde MA(RCA), Tomoaki Yanagisawa MA(RCA), Alexander Reeder and Celina Alvarado.
Broadcasted in cult weekly show Metrópolis in March 2011, Jap_ON is dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011.
Special thanks to the Wang family.
Product: Video Art
Running time: 5 mins
Premiered: At the international streaming New York festival Under The Subway
Powerful daydreaming in a powerless day, Don’t You Want Me, Babe? is about those precious moments we just abandon ourselves to just feel. It could also be a mantra. Shot in Tribeca on a very hot day.
Product: Online game.
Client: PNC Bank.
Role: Responsible of the final architecture and user experience.
Year: 2011
Awards:
• Cannes Cyberlions shortlist, 2012.
• Site Of The Day (12/23/11) at the Favorite Website Awards (FWA).
This is an online game to find out the difference of the cost of living on a given year based on 12 elements of a popular Christmas carol.
Product: App for mobile, tablet and desktop platforms.
Client: Sirius XM.
Year: 2014.
Role: Provide direction and leadership to a team of two UX designers to produce a compelling and user-driven notifications feature for the app across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms.
Product: Interactive web-based installation.
Year: 2009.
URL: https://twitter.com/confessionbot
Shows: ITP Winter Show 2009.
21st Century Confession Booth is a service for anyone to anonymously unload the burden of a sin or secret.
Confessions could be dropped off by entering them on the web at confessionbot.com, by calling 718-406-0483, or by finding one of our public confession microphones. Messages were anonymously transcribed and posted to our Confession Booth account on Twitter.
Behind the scenes, the phone system is using quicktate.com’s API to transcribe speech to text and a custom PHP script to deliver the confession to Twitter.
– Who do you have a crush on?
– Did you lie today?
– Who do you secretly hate?
– What’s the dirtiest thing you’ve ever done?
Specially interesting is the random inaccuracy of some transcriptions, giving a poetic flavor to possibly boring confessions.
In collaboration with Che-Wei Wang.
Running time: 5 mins.
Japanone is my first cut on Japan. Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Mihayima, Kobe, Setouichi. People, people, people everywhere, trains, food, kids, shinkansen, umbrellas. Shot with Lumix LX3 and Harinezumi2.
Special thanks to the Wang family.
Product: TV documentary.
Client: TVE's Metrópolis (public tv).
Running time: 25 mins.
Year: 2009.
Role: Full production, from curating to editing.
Nerd Art is a 25 mins documentary that depicts nine art projects from the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the prestigious New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, for Spain's public Televisión Española weekly art magazine Metropolis (La 2). Artists: Tom Gerhardt, Taylor Levy, Alexander Reeder, Celina Alvarado, Che-Wei Wang, Elim Cheng, Marios Diamantis, Ithai Benjamin and Amy Khosbhin.
Product: Interactive to enhance visitor's experience.
Client: Design Museum of London
Year: 2014.
Role: Design an interactive to enhance visitor's experience. The proposal consists on a series of kiosks to be placed in the lobby with a custom application where visitors can log in to customize their exploration of the museum collection and can be shared with friends and/or copied to user's devices for later use.
Role: Fragrance designer and installation maker.
~ miss me ~ is inspired by the infamous Whale 52, that sings at the frequency of around 52 hertz, while all the other whales communicate using frequencies that range between 15 and 25. Whale 52, first traced in 1994 by US submarines, known as the loneliest whale, is believed to be the only one of his species.
~ miss me ~ is the fragrance of the journey from an exceptional loneliness to a magnificent freedom. Panty-less and meticulously handcrafted, Miss Me is an exclusive dark and serene bouquet with a final pinch in the soul created in the Summer-y nights of New York City, 2012.
~ miss me ~ is presented sprayed in fans. Fans are used individually and the scent would flow towards the user rather than the other way around, in a wrapping fashion that acts as a shield. As a Spaniard I am very familiar with the use of fans. For the presentation of the fragrance, I’ve made an installation with a video recording of the Mediterranean sea at night under the moonlight [the recording was made just across Dalí's house in Spain] and modified its saturation according to the frequency variations of the actual sings of Whale 52 so while we can’t hear it we would see the color of the reflexion of the moonlight change.
When a fan is picked up, the video of the ocean fades to a video of the shadow of a woman -myself- dancing in the daytime, as a ritual that expresses freedom and maximum joy.
Main ingredients: walk in the woods, leather, fig, pink peppercorn, jasmine and terrific enthusiasm.
Product: Desktop site.
Client: PNC Bank.
Year: 2013.
Role: Responsible of the conceptual IA documentation, site maps, user scenarios and wireframes.
Product: Massively multiplayer online game.
Client: Konami/4mm Games.
Year: 2011.
Role: Responsible of the conceptual IA documentation, site maps, user scenarios and wireframes.
DefJam Rapstar, is a hip-hop karaoke console game that turns into a highly challenging massively multiplayer online game.
In DefJam Rapstar users can upload a 30 second movie of their karaoke/performance from the console online and then battle other users world wide while building a reputation and ultimately, a career in the music industry.
As the UX lead designer I created, from scratch, the online navigation of the game, social interactions and thrilling championships that make this game a must have.
Product: Interactive web based storytelling app.
Year: 2009.
URL: icantstopthinkingofyoutoo.com
Fictional story told across 2 websites that redirect to one another every 5 seconds.
For one year Che-Wei Wang and I have been adding a sentence 'live' into these 2 websites. The numbers indicate the seconds left before the shift.
In collaboration with Che-Wei Wang.
Product: Desktop website.
Client: Lunesta (Novartis).
Year: 2012.
URL: projectluna.com
Role: Provided research, conceptual IA, wireframes and a cutting edge design to create an intimate mood in the user through a storytelling concept layout in parallax.
Product: Website for mobile and desktop.
Client: Outback Steakhouse restaurants.
Year: 2013.
Role: Responsible of the conceptual IA documentation, site maps, user scenarios, wireframes and functional specifications of the responsive experience for mobile and desktop platforms.
Product: Desktop and mobile websites.
Client: PNC Bank.
Year: 2013.
URL: https://www2.pnc.com/atlanta/
Role: Provided research, conceptual IA, wireframes and conducted immaculate functional specifications for developers with a responsive approach for mobile and desktop platforms in a single page layout experience.
Running time: 4 mins.
This movie is part of a site specific installation at the Hotel Victoria in Madrid, Spain (2006). The words come from a real letter of a breakup, recorded in Madrid. The hands from real lovers playing under the table, shot with the old night-shot feature of dv cameras at a bar in Brooklyn, NY.
Product: Interactive lighting installation.
Year: 2008.
Role: Concept, development and fabrication.
In Flower Garden, the intensity of the light bulbs, including the one on the little monitor, flickers in a very slow organic way when a visitor is at a certain distance apart, but as he/she gets closer, the flicker gets faster, the intensity gets brighter and a sound of girls giggling will happen.
Product: TV commercial.
Client: Festimad.
Year: 1999.
Role: Director and editor.
Running time: 5 mins.
My friends wonder where men are gone.
Running time: 4 mins.
Vinyl vs iPod is a statement on digital and analog music very clearly expressed by Hernandez Hernandez, recorded at a hotel room in Palm Springs in 2006 and uploaded to Youtube in the times when a file should not be larger than 5M. Oh là là...
Product: Mobile app.
Client: Lunesta (Novartis).
Year: 2012.
Role: Provided research, conceptual IA, wireframes.
Luna Tracker is an app that analyses your sleeping habits.
Designed for iOS and Android.
Product: TV commercial.
Client: Festimad.
Year: 1999.
Role: Director and editor.
Product: Desktop and mobile websites.
Client: Exelon (Novartis).
Year: 2012.
URL: caretocareprogram.com
Role: Provided research, conceptual IA, wireframes and functional specifications.
