xREZ Lab Featured in North Texas Daily
xREZ Lab was recently featured in the NT Daily. You can read the article by following the link here.
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Project rePhoto : Documented Process
rePhoto Redesign Project The Existing App This project began as part of a joint effort to improve the user experience of the existing app. While the app was functioning properly, it was still lacking features that were present on the website. Features like adding new projects, project and subject management,... -
Physical Computing Bootcamp 2014
We hosted a physical computing workshop that combined Arduino and Pure Data as part of designing a two day creative coding and physical computing “bootcamp” style workshop. Stay tuned for more news about the new workshop for next semester! -
Tierra Firme a border project
Two border artists travel the Texas-Mexico frontier investigating ideas of place and identity through artistic engagement. Analise Minjarez and Sarita Westrup, two artists from the border towns of El Paso and McAllen, TX, our individual works adopt iconography and forms inspired by Mexican-American culture, southwest landscape, and... -
Laser Cutting Enamel – The Cuts
Thompson Enamel supplies 169 non-leaded enamels for metalsmiths and enamelists. I have created samples of 167 of them and ran each of them through the laser cutter to test which colors cut and to what degree do they cut. I am working with a student from the Material Science department... -
Cellular Automata & Music
My work this semester consisted in creating an acoustic musical work for Soprano and 7 Instruments (piccolo, alto flute, harp, piano, celesta, percussion, and violin), where the underlying logico-structural and pre-compositional work was rooted within Stephen Wolfram’s research in cellular automata as presented in his influential book “A New Kind... -
Final Process Post
Materials for final piece: Tracing paper, Surface hardener (Amazing Fa-bric), pigment ,acrylic paint, and LED lights. Tracing paper that has translucent, wispy and light feeling, almost as if it is not there connects to the size and weight of the screens we use today. So many screens are made for... -
NEA Grant Awarded to xREZ Lab for One Antarctic Night
We are thrilled to announce that xREZ lab has received a prestigious NEA art works grant for creation of the interactive artwork “Instrument: One Antarctic Night.” INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night is an interactive artwork created from 287‚800 images of the universe captured recently by a robotic telescope in Antarctica. Using this... -
Visualizing Reality
This project was a simple process of interacting with material, observing the changes and documenting the results. Photographing, copying and hand drawing approaches were all utilized to explore the potential of the image. The multiple documented layers blur the perceived reality of the image. I related this process to my conceptual exploration... -
Backroads – Process Post #3
The final stage of this semester I’ve spent my time finishing the video and audio of Backroads, finishing my artist framework map and creating a submission to a call for works for video art. My artistic framework map consists of 5 different topics involved in my life as an artist:... -
Process Post 3: Mazes + ROAM
Working Framework – The Map is the Territory I am also thrilled to have been selected as the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas annual CADD FUNd grant recipient for my mobile phone game ROAM. ROAM is a proposal for an interactive urban exploration and mapping game for smart phones that helps players... -
Process Post 2: Mazes / Disorientation
I am investigating disorientation and spatial cognition in order to understand the percpetual and embodied structures of perception involved in navigating space. I am experimenting with the possibilities for aesthetic experience through navigation, narrative cartography and controlled disorientation. Getting lost allows us to see our surrounding with fresh eyes, challenges us... -
Project rePhoto: The Next Generation
For this semester as part of my independent research, I am currently working on designing the next generation of the iOS rePhoto app. Here are some screenshots of my current process: -
Physicality of Dreams
During this independent/directed study on alternative print making techniques I will create a work titled “Physicality of Dreams”. There is much to be learned from the unconscious mind, the operations of the human brain while the body is at rest can at times reveal the most vulnerable information of the... -
