EXHIBITION DESIGN & CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Generative Devastations | Exhibition | 2024
CHILE
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) generate devastating developments for our ways of making worlds and inhabiting the planet?
This question inspires Generative Devastations, a video installation that invites us to reflect on AI's simultaneously generative and devastating character. This technology is inseparable from the alteration of social and biophysical processes. Its production of vast material infrastructures (data centres, submarine cables, satellites, software, etc.) and unprecedented forms of extractivism. At the same time as it extracts resources and minerals from the Earth for its production (water, silicon, copper, rare earths, cobalt, etc.), its functioning requires the massive appropriation of data. AI draws on the resources of the earth's materiality and human interactions. It appropriates our desires and the vitality of our geological worlds to generate so-called generative intelligences.
In this work, minerals are the protagonists of a series of five audiovisual pieces made with AI. Each rock image enters a generative loop, where the AI tries to calculate the meanings of the image until it reaches its complete abstraction. The AI's efforts to configure plausible worlds not only collapse but also plunge us into inhuman landscapes, where the very idea of habitability is reduced to sterile abstractions.
The installation is a call to reflect on the logic and entanglements of AI in the context of ecological disasters and planetary limits. It opens a debate on the environmental threat to the natural resources required by this technology to produce the digital, as well as a silent extraction of human meaning through the expansion of machinic hallucinations.
RE-CREATING MEMORY: AN ENTROPIC READING OF THE CITY NOISE | Solo Exhibition | Cromwell Place, London | 2023
UNITED KINGDOM
Carola U Marín's multi-sensory exhibition is framed within a process of transition that has become the behavior of recent years in Chile. Acknowledging the historical and political variables that mark the passage of time and the social milestones that define contemporary daily life. It is a transition that helps us to understand reality, resonating with past times that remind us that in Latin America, processes derive from permanent chaos.
What is exhibited here is the result of making decisions that guide the will to connect the personal with the collective. Why do I manifest myself? Why do I register it? What do I do with this archive? Based on these questions, a method is proposed for understanding the time and space in which we find ourselves, where operations such as transforming the image into sound become tools for survival and reflection.
Curatorial Text by Daniel Aguayo Mozó
At Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London
In the context of the First Ibero-American Curated Moment Event organised by Cromwell Place
From: 3-8 October 2023
4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE, United Kingdom
A Statement of Dignity | ART-ACT Fest | 2023
SINGAPORE
‘A Statement of Dignity: The City as Text’ is a short film directed and created by me in collaboration with animator Marco Fuentes and sound by Amir Bech, presented at Art-Act Festival Singapore. The audiovisual piece is an invitation to walk the streets of Santiago during the crisis of 2019, scanning and decoding the messages on the walls as an echo of social demands. The messages are rescued from the walls, and translated into different languages, focusing on understanding public space as a living entity that responds and manifests itself to societal changes.
The festival is a platform for international collaboration where artists and designers from different disciplines come together. In a world of constant disruption, crisis, and conflict, art becomes a powerful tool to drive change. It gives a space to explore and discuss the problems that affect us as human beings and fosters the generation of innovative and revolutionary ideas.
Venues & Details of the screening
Ten Square (1 Short St, Singapur 188218) - 10th January 2023
Screen Size: 15x2 meters (3840x480 px)
Media Art Nexus MAN (50 Nanyang Ave, Singapur 639798) - 12th January 2023
Screen Size: 8x14.4 meters (2210x1440 px)
Tectonic Resonances | London Design Biennale | 2021
UNITED KINGDOM
‘Tectonic Resonances: From the user-centered design to a planet-oriented design’, was the Chilean pavilion that participated on the third edition of the LDB, responding to the international call made by its artistic director Es Devlin: Resonances.
The pavilion takes a close look at the natural sonic properties of the Andean rocks as a gateway into thinking about the geological and political forces in contemporary Design. The outcome presented is the staging of a primary and ancient action: hitting stones to create an expressive sound, not very different from what human beings would have been doing thousands of years ago at the beginning of the Anthropocene.
We use this simple action to connect with critical issues of contemporary design: the local and material consequences of extractivism in the global south, our fast and technological modes of life in the context of geological times, and the active power of non–human forces. We hope that promoting a tectonic thinking of contemporary design can contribute to a new radical ethic of coexistence. We invite the visitors of the Chilean Pavilion to interact with the rocks and engage with the stories displayed throughout the room.
Royal College of Art
UNITED KINGDOM
Grand Challenge | 2024 | 2025 | 2026
The RCA Grand Challenge is an interdisciplinary event that runs each year across the entire School of Design, including Design Products, Fashion, Innovation Design Engineering, Intelligent Mobility, Service Design and Textiles – leading industry partners, such as UNESCO, Logitech and CERN.
My role is to design the exhibition space for showcasing the shortlisted projects and to develop the graphic identity for each year, including the graphic design, production, and installation of the exhibition.
Terra Carta Design Lab | 2024
The Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Design Lab is a global competition, which invites students to design high-impact solutions that address the devastating damage caused to our planet. With partners institutions, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (UAE), National Institute of Design Ahmedabad (India) and Rhode Island School of Design (USA), the 2023/24 Design Lab expanded its reach to a global audience of design change-makers. His Majesty King Charles III, in his former role as HRH The Prince of Wales, launched the Terra Carta – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector – as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative.
My role was as the designer of the exhibition, carefully considered in every detail, with a natural forest as its centrepiece. This included developing the graphic identity, designing all project posters, creating the editorial layout of a printed booklet, and producing materials for social media distribution.
Across RCA | 2025 | 2026
AcrossRCA is an ambitious, interdisciplinary, College-wide unit that brings together students from all RCA MAs. Responding to urgent contemporary themes across four areas: Being Digital, Social Justice, Climate Crisis and Caring Society.
I'm responsible for curating the projects within the exhibition space and designing the display for each project. I also develop the graphic identity for each year, produce all graphic materials, and coordinate the installation and deinstallation of the exhibition.
RESEARCH-LED PROJECTS
Developed from independent investigations and translated into books, exhibitions, albums, digital platforms and other forms of visual communication.
The City as Text | Digital Memory Archive | 2020
CHILE
La Ciudad como Texto is the central project from which many others emerge, arising as a response to the urgency of preserving the memory of a particular moment in Chile, after the threat of censorship by the government in charge. On 18 October 2019, Chile experienced what was called the “Social Uprising”: one of the biggest political crises in its history, a mega-crisis.
This digital platform corresponds to a new type of memory archive that allows us to walk the streets of Santiago, tracing the writings on the walls, as an echo of social demands. The recording was made a few days before the government whitewashed and erased this historical moment.
2.4 km were recorded and 136 photographs were used to reconstruct the route from the epicentre of the demonstration to the government palace. At the same time, 50 people of different field of knowledge and ages were invited to write a short text, choosing a message, a graffiti, an image or a corner of the route. All texts are available on the website by clicking the *. Currently this platform has more than 70 collaborators and a team led and designed by me, including a photographer, web programmer, communication department, translators, lawyer, design assistant, among others.
As a follow-up to the digital platform that emerged in pandemic and is used by multiple universities and schools as study material, a print publication was designed. The first bilingual edition (SP-EN) was published in 2020, presenting the project, the design phases and the reconstruction of the route as a heritage archive. The second edition, which included new contributions and a whole graphic dictionary derived from the analysis of the walls, was launched in 2021. Both books are available for free download.
Exhibition at Graphic Days Torino | 2025
X Edition of the International Visual and Social Design Festival, Graphic Days. From the great icons that have made history to the most talented contemporary art directors, Graphic Days tells the story of visual communication in all its forms and its influences.
The festival structured through an exhibition path and a calendar full of events, talks, workshops, collaborative projects, performances, DJ sets, activities for schools and families, and a market dedicated to this year’s theme: Love, Now!
UNITED KINGDOM
Calling Lights | 2022
CALLING LIGHT: The Sound of an Awakening is a tribute to all the eyes unjustifiably lost due to the police shootings during the uprising in Chile, in 2019. This collaborative artistic exploration gives voice to blinded eyes. A statement is coded into morse – the most established military way of communication– and musicalized globally by musicians, creating an album entitled Sonic Pamphlet. As Dr. Sheena Calvert states:
"...it is a way to rethink our relationship/s to politics and power,
forming a new kind of ‘sonic revolution’. "
Just as the eyeball is surrounded by a three-layer wall fulfil different functions, this work is made up of three connected elements, but they can also be understood separately. [Video + Musical Album + Publication] By encoding a message and translated to be activated through sound, light and text, for an infinite resonance.
