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Francisco Alarcon is an artist and engineer immersed in visual digital culture.

Photo Finish

PHOTO FINISH explores the impact of technological progress, in concrete AI, and its influence on visual culture, featuring the horse as a central symbol. The artwork references its historical significance in the work of Eadweard Muybridge, where the horse served as an object for capturing the passage of time with photography and ultimately led to the development of motion pictures.

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SOLIDS

Metaverse/web3, 2022

Generative Architecture Project for the Metaverse.

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As the Metaverse is becoming more ubiquitous, we are seeing many different examples of virtual worlds emerging. Immersive virtual worlds are not something novel; however, blockchain technology adds a more tangible layer to our virtual experience, which extends the material world.

In this context of expansion into the Metasphere, Architecture is needed to shape the habitat of the Virtual Realm. This is where SOLIDS was born, as an essential response to the needs for buildings in the established and upcoming Digital Environments.

Infinites AI+IRL

web3, 2021

Infinites AI+IRL is a body of work of unique artworks generated at the time of the minting in the Ethereum blockchain. At the time of its creation, Infinites AI+IRL were done on Ethereum, but now, they are stored on-chain on Bitcoin using the Ordinals protocol.

Infinites AI
Infinites IRL

Infinites was created with the idea of overlapping the work of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), with an on-chain Generative operation. The intersection of the two processes is resolved in an engaging simulation diluting an AI-generated image into a digital canvas.

https://www.infinites.ai/

Ocean Amplification

Ocean Amplification is a video montage that offers visualizations and simulations of ocean waves, waves whose heights are growing in some parts of the Southern Hemisphere owing to the effects of climate change, which include intensified storms and latitudinal shifts in wind patterns.

In collaboration with Stefan Helmreich.

Ars Electronica Garden of … Knowledge for Humanity
CURATORIAL A(I)GENTS metaLAB (at) HARVARD

Ocean Amplification, 2020

With Stefan Helmreich
Digital Video 9:29

Ocean Amplification is a video montage that offers visualizations and simulations of ocean waves, waves whose heights are growing in some parts of the Southern Hemisphere owing to the effects of climate change, which include intensified storms and latitudinal shifts in wind patterns. Developed by cultural anthropologist Stefan Helmreich and artist Francisco Alarcon, the video frames increasing wave heights in the Oceanic South as avatars of changing human-inhuman political ecologies.

https://strelkamag.com/en/article/ocean-amplification-rising-waves-and-north-south-asymmetries

04052020_CCMCFDrev6 , 2020
Installation. Custom Software, Video, Sound, IGTV and your mobile device

On view on IGTV during lockdown due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak link︎

Rough Surface I

Rough Surface, 2019
Software, Custom Built Computer, and TV Screen

Other projects

Crashing the High Dynamic Range (Back to the Truman Show), 2019, Custom Hardware, Video Loop
Crashing the High Dynamic Range (Back to the Truman Show), 2019, detail from MICROLOGIES. Exhibition Curated by DXIX, Los Angeles in collaboration with Scharaun, Berlin. ︎ See pdf

20191006_WoodonWood.nc, 2019, Carved Wood Panel, 50x40cm
20191006_AlsoWoodonWood.nc, 2019, Acrylic Spray Paint on Carved Wood Panel,50x40cm
20191007_WoodonWood.nc, 2019, Carved Wood Panel, 50x40cm

The Last Wave, 2019
Aluminum, 18x44in

Rough Surface II, 2019
Installation, Boston University

La Piscina de Barragan (Casa Prieto. Ciudad de Mexico), 2019
Inkjet ink on Photographic Paper, 44x64 in
La Piscina de Barragan (Casa Prieto. Ciudad de Mexico)
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Immersion, 2019
Video Installation, ArtLab, Harvard University, MA

BOSS Wave, 2019
High-density polyethylene, 24x12x4in

Crispy Hard Crispy Fat,

is a project that expands theoretical research on the technical specificity of post-photographic image production into the art studio practice, more precisely into “painting culture”. It questions artistic research practice, the art object, and institutions, in dialog with science and technology.