Projects
Heart
In June 2021, I created and programmed a sensor that allows me to send and share my heartbeats in real time in the form of an electrocardiogram, by sending the signal to the blockchain as an NFT using three electrodes attached to my chest.
This idea was born in April 2021 with the intention of turning the signal of life into a work of art. The project consists of three parts: my heartbeats as the transmitting part, the sensor as the channel, and the NFT owner as the receiver.
The sensor captures my heartbeats using three electrodes and sends them via Wi-Fi to the blockchain. Only the NFT owner has access to see my heartbeats in real time.
This also allows me to publish recordings of heartbeats and perform live shows where I transmit my heartbeats during different acts such as hugs, reactions or impulses.
Heart Clock
100 Hand Veins
This project, started in December 2021, consists of collecting 100 veins soldered with brass wire and silver solder customized to the real size of the veins in the hands of 100 different people, one per- son born for each year between 1922 and 2021.
Each vein has its own shape and is formed when we are in our mo- thers’ womb and lasts a lifetime. It is a drawing that accompanies us, which is ephemeral and temporal, and therefore also ages and evolves.
This registry aims to show the veins of a person from one year, two, three, up to one hundred, and give new meaning to what veins are. To give the importance that a part of the body that often goes unnoticed deserves.
Sonochromatic Piano
The Sonochromatic Piano is a piece that involves electrifying a piano, whether it be an upright or a grand piano, in order to light up bulbs of different colors relative to the note being played. It follows a mathematically and physically established scale that relates the frequencies of sound to the frequencies of color.
Thus, having dismantled the piano and electrified it note by note, each key lights up a bulb. For example, the C# lights up the blue bulb while the F notes light up the red bulbs.
It's a work that allows you to not only hear the music, but also see it. It could be said that with this piano, the music is seen before it is heard since light travels faster than sound.
It was exhibited at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest for two months and is currently permanently exhibited at the Cervan- tes Institute in the same city.
I developed this project based on my previous project of heart- beats. In addition to sending my heartbeats to the blockchain, I also wirelessly send them to this clock, so that each beat advances the clock and you can see the second hand moving to the rhythm of my heart.
When my heart beats faster, the clock moves faster, and when my heart beats slower, the clock moves slower.
This project addresses themes such as the passage of time, the time of life, and the life of time, anachronism, and in some ways, it recalls Memento Mori, but through technology and using the energy of my own body.
The Clock was exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Art & Industries during the months of March and April 2022.
The Sense of Time is a cybernetic device that allows perceiving the passing of time through small vibrations emitted every X minutes. It consists of a processor and a vibrating chip placed in a brass casing handcrafted and welded to “wings” as conductors of the vibration that comes from the center. It can be programmed to vibrate every desired number of minutes so that when the person wears this device and perceives this pattern for a prolonged period of time, they get used to this rhythm.
For example, if it is programmed to vibrate every 5 minutes, and after some time the frequency is suddenly changed to 8 minutes, the sensation of the passage of time is lengthened, and time seems to go slower. Conversely, if it is changed to vibrate every 3 minutes, the perception of time passing speeds up. It is designed to be worn on the back.
The story behind this project is to control the perception of time, and in the future, I will publish an NFT of the permission to change the frequency of the vibrations so that someone else can control without my consent how fast or slow I should feel the passage of time.
The Sense of Time
2021 - Current
2022-Current
2021-2023
2022-Current Feat. Neil Harbisson
2022 - Current
Heartbeats (NFTs)
2021 - Current
Since I was young, I have always had a great interest and admiration for heartbeats. Initially, it was my fascination with anatomy, but ultimately it was my great-grandfather who inspired me with a poetry book he published titled “Latidos,” -Heartbeats in spanish- where he explained that the written verses were the beats of his feelings. From there, three years ago, I had the idea to externalize my own heartbeats, but instead of doing it through poetry, I wanted to do it through technology, creating a kind of technological poetry.
Heartbeats accompany us throughout our lives. They represent our constant vitality, from our time in the mother’s womb until the last second of life. However, they are an involuntary phenomenon conditioned by our physical and emotional state. Heartbeats reveal our thoughts, actions, and emotions, reflecting our overall state. As I explored this constant phenomenon, I began to look for ways to express art through my own heartbeats, in addition to constantly sending them in real-time as NFTs.
My goal with this project is to create art that gives the importance that heartbeats deserve, creating an aesthetic, methodical, and formal format that records and preserves this intangible and essential part of our bodies while creating a new type of digital art linked and conditioned by the human body.
88 Lifes-220V-16A-50Hz
2024
This is an interactive installation inspired by my personal interests to narrate a story born from my curiosity to experiment with objects and my fascination with concepts such as the passage of time, anachronism, the documentation and immortalization of objects, as well as self-referentiality.
The installation features an upright acoustic piano that activates twelve objects using 220 volts of power through 88 small switches placed beneath each key and interconnected by octaves, similar to the Sonochromatic Piano. Each octave contains twelve notes, and each note triggers a different object, so every key controls an object when played on the piano.
I experiment and explore technology as a medium to present a narrative—a work of art that combines art, design, and craftsmanship. I developed a switch system that allows the twelve objects to function through the piano, using the keyboard both as a switch and as a means to compose with twelve new sounds, creating an installation that is both intriguing and eccentric. The morphology of this installation is reminiscent of Dadaist ready-mades, but its functionality is more closely related to the works of Cabosanroque, with a purpose similar to John Cage’s concept of prepared piano or the ideas presented by Carles Santos and Lolo & Sosaku.
Time moving foward or backwards?
2021
This project was born out of my curiosity to explore the passage of time. I bought a wall clock and decided to modify its mechanism, altering its interior so that the hands would start moving backward, as if time itself were reversing. I also altered the paper that marks the hours, reversing it and cutting it to size, then pasting it over the original paper. What’s interesting about this clock is that, although it seems to defy the rules of time, it keeps working, only in the opposite direction, raising the question: does time really always move forward?
The magic happens when this clock is faced toward a mirror. In the reflection, everything seems to return to normal: the hands move forward, and the time it shows is correct. The mirror becomes a sort of portal between two realities—one where time flows backward, and another where it follows its usual course. This visual play leads me to question whether time is something absolute or simply a construct that depends on the perspective from which we observe it.
By inverting both the mechanism and the paper, as well as the signature on the glass, I wanted to emphasize the idea that our perception of time is not fixed, but malleable. This project, for me, is a way to reflect on how we experience the past and the future, and whether we are truly moving forward or repeating cycles. The inverted clock has become a metaphor for the fragility and subjectivity of time, which we can deconstruct and reconstruct depending on how we choose to view it.