Partnership and Curation for Digital Exhibition Being asked to participate as a curator at this exhibition has been an honor and a pleasure for me. This project challenged me as a designer; bringing out my practice as an ethnomusicologist, and applying it toward the use of immersive technology for understanding. In 1970, futurist Alvin Toffler […]
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VirtuosoXR is a music education platform that uses spatial computing and ethnomusicological methods for learning context and performance. Performing music is one the greatest joys in the world, but many people do not have access to great musical education or encounter a frustrating learning process that leads them to eventually give up. By augmenting makeshift […]
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July 4, 2019 Thank you to Champion City (Client) for inviting us out to South Central Los Angeles for a day of fun playing Oculus Quest with approximately 120 participants. Throughout the day we demonstrated Beat Saber, Tilt Brush, and 360º VR films such as Laventille! A musical journey to the rhythm of Trinidad and […]
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The use of masks and disguises for entertainment and identity is not new. In fact, some of the oldest relics of self expression date back 9,000 years ago. Fast forward to the spatial computing age where we have augmented reality filters through platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, and you begin to see that this impulse […]
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My work takes me to communities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a technologist and coach for young entrepreneurs. These experiences have allowed me to share the gifts I’ve had the privilege to receive through an amazing journey of learning and self actualization as an immigrant in the United States. Most recently I was […]
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