Outsource Me! is an ironic subversion of the practice of outsourcing, which consists on the hiring of foreign low-wage workers by employers from developed countries.
My proposal was to temporarily upset that power relationship. I chose my own employer, within the context of an agreement established by myself, to develop a piece of software art as an outsourced worker. At the same time, I was outsourcing myself the task of thinking of an idea for the piece.

This work waves an ever changing drawing with text taken from two widely different sources: random fragments from The Quixote and the world news of the day according to the BBC. As they tangle into each other, though, they become indistinguishable. Letters migrate between them to show the simple fact that, in spite of all their distances, they are made of the same stuff. The foundations of our culture, the accounts of the world we live in: all is language. Click on any text line to see its source.

Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.

Intimidad is a digital image work representing the entire folder tree of my computer's hard drive, as it was the night of April 15th, 2005. It was registered in 198 screen captures which, at the standard PC monitor resolution of 96 dots per inch, represent a tree 32 meters high. This is my personal tree in a global forest of information. My daily activity feeds it even when I don't notice it, and it has probably grown much taller since I made this full shot of a moment in its usually hidden life.

Geopolio is a project developed in collaboration with m7red (Mauricio Corbalan | Pio Torroja). This is just a prototype which will eventually develop into a collaborative discussion system specially suited for geopolitics or other subjects with a geographical dimension. Posts are associated to locations on a map, and relations among them are graphically represented by a net of lines. Thus, a graphic conversation system.

Biots are simple autonomous agents that move according to relational rules. This is a project for a systematic exploration of such rules. This idea as such was never accomplished, but this work gave way to numerous other developments, such as ‘Dreamlines’, that is based on the same principles: a population of simple automata that presents a not-so-simple emergent behavior.

This program takes a poem, or any text, and makes a random audiovisual experience out of it. It is an automatic poem reader, that literally processes words and makes something different out of them: a language, chaos or order, in which clear understanding and communication do not matter any more.

This is a paint program with a will of its own. The user has a strokes palette and several control tools. When drawing, though, the strokes move around the screen by themselves, and eventually disappear. The outcome is a painting in movement, that results from the interaction between user and machine. It is a game of forms and colors, that discloses it’s possibilities with playing and experimentation.

My first Flash work. It’s a pretty abstract animated short movie. Don’t look for a history or a meaning because, to my knowledge, there are none. The idea was to play with simple forms and sounds to represent scenes with a minimum of elements.