Media:
Formats:
Roles:
Tools:
Context:
A listening calendar that propose a time effort to listen more to others. Every day a sentence with a new question.
I was commissioned to make the creative direction, graphic design and print production.
(More pictures to come) (English version in progress)
Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
<3
As part of the ongoing project Envision Change, Creative Media for Social Change commissioned me to create a publication to wrap up a year of processes with the community. We wrote, designed, and printed a map-like publication that gathers pictures, thoughts, and actions that inhabitants experienced.
Studies of color and digital painting at home.
Impact Mapping of creative Interventions it’s an interactive PDF that shares alternatives to impact measuring on research studies beyond quantitative results.
(Work-in-progress)
Knowledge Landscape was created by Saskia de Wildt, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, as part of their PhD dissertation: “Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement”.
My role was to set up an infrastructure where Saskia could transform a complex research process into a simple interface that could tell a story. After conversing and exploring possibilities, I set up a Wiki media instance and developed a website that translated the interconnected storyline into a choose-your-own-adventure type of interface. The idea is that the project could organically grow and the interface would do as well.
Poster designed for Juan Francisco Rodríguez film called Parientes del valle luminoso.
The typography I used for the title is the same used in the short, it was made by Francisco scratching directly on the film with a needle .
Graphic and layout design for the PDF publication Samen duurzaan op weg part Creative media for social change activities.
The Doubt Times is a newspaper publication in the format of table placemat that trigger questions about disinformation.
In collaboration with Creative Media for Social change.
Layout design and illustrations for the PHD Thesis publication The Urge to Splurge: Understanding the effects of media cues on impulse buying urges and behavior written by Anne Moes
Playful website to explore the question, where is the sky?
Project made in the context of Declarations
Playing with every english propositions such as “on”, “above”, “around”, “below”, we created a metaphor playground, a narrative website that unfold the question in a surrealist and playful manner.
Full description here plus other tools and processes from that week.
Creative Coding Ecologies is a work-in-process mapping project made by CCU aiming to connect the creative Coding community around the world. We are offering a way to explore and investigate, and also add yourself as an entity by answering the following survey. The next iteration of the project will focus their attention on relation-ability visualization.
Update 2025: The survey and website are down for the moment.
Website design and Coding in collaboration with Niels Janssen for the project De Kapitalisten by Het Nut in the Netherlands. The process was really quick and aimed to produce a website that could fund extra capital for a theatre play. The design emulates a spreadsheet where you could count and add money to it. So far, more than 1800 people have donated. Scroll it down!
This project brought together artists, scientists and citizens to converse and create artworks reflecting on different questions. The output was an exhibition, multiple conversations and this printed book.
Floating Words is a collection of works, part of an ongoing process to explore asemic writing. Words exist as a graphic intention. There is no clarity. Doesn’t my activate upon reading them? Do they just exist to my eyes?
All the stamped designs on the garments were hand cut and pressed by me using leftover material from Diantres, a screen printing and design studio from Bogota, Colombia. I’m grateful for your generosity and love.
The text “They Dream” was written by Nicolás Castro.
All the drawings are part of an ongoing practice to communicate beyond meaning and sense.
All of the garments are single pieces and the ones marked with a ↺ were found in second-hand shops.
🌱 Self-hosted
Series of sketches and website e-commerce project to test Shopify headless Webapp.
The shop doesn’t exist because I don’t know if I want to pay 20 euros per month to Shopify services.
Layout design for the Master’s Thesis publication The ice was blue and the Ice was thick written by Lea Novi.
This was made in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella.
We de try is a publication about listening made in collaboration with the writer Esther Kamara.
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
attempt is an independent publishing project founded by me and Maria Paris. Attempt is an intuitive platform for visual and written language in which we work in close collaboration with artists, writers and designers. Each publication has its own physicalities, paces and form of distribution as our main goal is to move away from the idea of a single and definite end product as the holder of value, thinking on the act of publishing to be elastic, revisited, and ever changing.
This gallery of images is a collection of graphics from the process.
Website design and coding for the online art exhibition “borrar con el dedo lo que se hace con otro” by Rastro. “Erasing with one finger what is done with another” is a Rastro curatorship that questions the possible materializations that digital repetition makes possible. In the contemporary world where our existence is projected as connected fragments and which is built from small corporeal repetitions, it is necessary to dwell on those daily automatisms that cross us unnoticed like the inertia of a global wave.”
Dear reader It is a letter and a micro web application made in Flask to gather questions. It was written in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella. It is inspired by the performance World Question Center made by James Lee Byars in 1969. The first intention of this app was to feed the “Rumination Sessions” of the living glossary project where questions are cards that initiate reflection. Currently, this letter is a living publication that slowly gathers questions from practitioners and readers.
In the back-end it uses Flask, a lightweight web application framework that uses python language and Jinja templates for processing and rendering the webpage. It stores information in a JSON file. Due to its light weight, It can be run on any server. This one is running on my home server.
Looking to expand the possibilities of “connecting” as part of the Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice, I created a role-like game that would reflect and expand the glossary itself by proposing different approaches to it.
The different characters would perform for different perspectives on the connections among:
The liminal, the weaver, the summoner, the otherness, the inner space.
What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
The Digesting Care publication was developed for the EU Commission project Taking Care by Museum Volkenkunde in the Netherlands. It is a static website written by a Python script that takes the content written in markdown and makes it HTML using Pandoc. The website interface filters the content based on a question generated by a small set of parameters. These are defined by us digesting the concepts and unsolved topics of the conference. The website was developed by experimenting with the idea of resilient web design and web-to-print techniques. We printed an edition of 120 copies of 50 different publications.
Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice is an ongoing and ever-changing attempt to introduce a diffractive methodology inside publishing practices, understanding publishing as the mere act of making public. It is organized as a container of words that are never fully defined, only annotated. Words become tools, concepts, resources, and shapes with properties that enhance new possibilities. In this glossary, they don’t close the publishing scenario to territory arts or design. Instead, they are porous and permeable to other spheres of action.
The glossary is seen as mutable, and the current state results from collective workshops where participants are invited to think and converse around its words and annotations. During the workshop, diffraction performs a conscious interconnection of practices beyond reflection.
From the technical side there is source pad were all annotations take place in a markdown format which is processed by a Python script that writes it as a website using Pandoc and then Js.
The living glossary environment tool is a web app tool to make living glossaries from a text file or a Pad (with API KEY). It allows the creation of a static website that uses the idea of a glossary as a layering of annotations rather than a closed list of words and definitions.
On the website you can make a selection of different options regarding the glossary environment you would like to make and it generates a zip file with all the necessary tools to make a living glossary.
This project was developed in parallel with the living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice. In this case, the tool is an attempt to share processes with others.
(Currently Not Online)
Poster design, cover and cassette for Por la inflamada esfera.
*The footnote sentence is taken from the album’s entry on Bandcamp.
This was a beautiful project to make. I wish more of this could come.
Website design and Coding for Rastro, a studio of creation, research and artistic production. For this project in collaboration with Maria we design a space that show case their present and future projects. We developed this project under the umbrella of our publishing project called attempt
Temporary garden is a home small server to host personal and collective projects.
I developed and maintained it myself at home. It currently runs Raspian OS and Nginx as the web server.
I’m planning to move this to the actual index of the directory. No extra design needed. Maybe the intent manifesto on top.
The whole is a partial-topological space build by 14 micro non-games. They intersect, meet, and gather together. Click on the different situations, play using the arrow keys and leave the door open for new unexpected situations. This project was part of the Issue 14.
walkie talkie is a collective publication launched last July in Rotterdam for the grad show of experimental publishing. We, as the graphic design team, design a protocol/system to gather all the submissions from participants. We designed, printed and gave a small booklet that explains carefully the rules they needed to follow in order to write their text and easily adjust them in the overall design made by us.
🌱 Self-hosted (at xpub hub)
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
About the right to life. Atata is a website created for the project Wor(l)ds for the future, the special issue 13 of the course experimental publishing. It takes as its main axis Natalia Chavez Lopez’s essay on the word ATATA and proposes a visual intervention on the text with the interest of making its meaning of interdependence explicit.
Being Atata, the awareness of the relationship between beings as an act of reciprocity, the direct intervention on the text was made on the grammatical connectors to make evident the relation between words. For this, using the Python library NLTK, all conjunctions were changed by bidirectional arrows that visually emphasize the connection.
The intention was that the reader recognizes a visual linker and modifies their reading experience through the navigation of a text that needs to be discovered by clicking on the arrows.
Poster design and titles for Francisco and Jasmin short film
Template design for Louisas project Climbing the firewall.
Text taken from Louisa’s Website
EARTHRISE × Zhouwéi Network is a location-based game I co-created and produced as part of my residency at Roodkapje in 2021. As an extension of my research into geocaching as a game tool, I set up a collaboration between MaMA and Roodkapje, inviting the research duo Liminal Vision to co-imagine this hybrid format in relation to their work Zhouwéi Network. In this inspiring effort, we opened up portals in different locations in Rotterdam, where stories from characters of Zhouwéi Network could be found, iterating life in the future on the various locations based on three potential future societies. For this project, I imagined an alphabet in which symbols correspond to syllables, which can be read by players into code words, using an in-game dictionary. The alphabet was designed by Camilo Garcia Aycardi, based on the aesthetics of the three different societies of Zhouwéi Network.
Pictures taken from the projects page.
Elephant Trails is an app to explore the city and leave traces for thought and mindful encounters. Urban walks for curious minds.
Visual system, graphic design and publication design for Ether-axis project and the exhibition From Then to Here by Erik Peters.
EtherAxis is the result of an ongoing collaboration between me (Camilo García A.), Emilia Tapprest, Erik Peters, Federico Poni, Louisa Teichmann & Victor Evink, as part of the Hamburger Community of Live & Art trajectory of Roodkapje. With the participation of Queer Arcana as performers.
Exhibition Pictures taken from Erik Peters.
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Process of transformation of the Ether Axis board to the Scent of Time symbolic space.
Luzblanca.delay is a project I did a while ago. Well, two years ago now. I didn’t finish it. But I wrote a lot about it. I was thinking about time, productivity, and I wanted to draw.
Funnily enough, it was the project where I started flirting with web pages. But the funny thing is, I haven’t finished it yet. I started with React. Obviously, nothing came of it.
I have 40 drawings.
(Work-in-progress?)
Sketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
One time, I was trying to read and I arrived here.
Exploration with RISO colors, magic and reading while traveling in the train.
Colors that are stones, stones that are the source of the words
Website made in Collaboration with Jacopo Lega for Radio Implicances Archive part of the Special Issue 13 in Xpub. Artisan, quick and dirty one.
Incense clock design for the film Scent of Time, inspired by the fifth worlds developed in the project Ether Axis. This iteration in design is made to be drawing as a single line.
Collaboration with Guillotina for crop top design.
This book is a collaboration with my beloved Avital Barkai for her web project Writing Cure. It is sticky to read, full of details and as a book got a nice feeling to the touch.
Every second page you can open it as a poster that interpreted an interface of the website.
We have some last copies available.
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
Studies of color and painting.
These are a bit old. It gives me shivers to think about the square format now. Fuck instagram.
Personal exploration about distance, time, silence and love.
About time, scrolling, clocks and solar circumferences.
More than 500,000,000 objects inhabit the solar system; planets are only the 8 largest after the sun. This zine is an 8-page journey through space bodies that coexist with the largest objects.
A circle is a dot that in its prolongation returns to itself.
About reflection and distribution of critical thought.
T-shirt Illustration design for Colo Coffee in Colombia.
Pattern design for the flower shop Diflora in Bogotá.
Long sleeve design silk-printed by Diantres in Bogotá, Colombia.
(*)
No matter the nature of the thing, the possible jump between its particles creates its life.
Time for them always dilates, expands and become transparent. The appearance of the thing does not lie on its life meaning.
The jump is the indeterminate synthesis of the in-between: the invisible and subtle space of energy.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
Website coding for my brother Guillotina. Simple self-hosted solution written by hand.
Lights, rocks, stems, tension, space and composition.
Once I made sketches for a full series of these prints, I think one day I’ll make it happen.
“morph” is a visual sequence where Scorpio, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and Pluto are astrological triggers for questions about control, trust, detachment, and levity. Using the idea of a loop, this publication is presented as an infinite trace of personal transformation and reflection.
when air hopes for water,
it becomes scorpion to swim,
fully sunk, air forgets how to breathe,
sometimes dies,
sometimes lives,
it shines,
they drown,
both morph.
This notebook was made in collaboration with Alberto Miani and Daniela Rodriguez. A offset printed notebook with drawings of particles spreading all over. This object is part of a bigger collection of daily life objects made in collaboration with different artists. An astray, a table cloth and this one, a notebook.
A print made thinking about the possibility that the plants have to bend, connect, trespass and become other.
Natural Convergence: Vegetal Communities Workshop is a project that aims, using plants as a metaphor, to propose reflections on the relationship between human beings.
The workshop invites participants to observe plants, draw them and abstract them into vegetal communities on paper. It introduces the participant into allelopathy and permaculture: two practices where plant relationships are take in account.
Next to the workshop, an installation offers new plastic and spatial possibilities in terms of the relational concept of the project. How the whole is connected with the object, the viewer with the individual, and the participants with the plants. A whole built from the project’s transversal axis: being in relation to one another.
Glory desire was a collective project that, for a full month, aimed to activate the exhibition space El Chino Bogotano with a temporary installation and public activities that reflected on the idea of Glory.
We built a very typical waiting room in offices and health centers in Bogota with TV, coffee, a couple of showbiz magazines, a plant, dirty sofas and a not so clean floor.
Sobre tener como fin común el derecho a la vida
About having the right to life as a common goal
Over het als gemeenschappelijk doel hebben van het recht op leven
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Rather than communicate an objective relate or a story, Encounter seeks to propose several readings about the graphic information printed on paper speculating about three “levels” of communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic. The book use as resources: organic forms that are related; different dimensions of language; paper inserts, and a text that suggests poetic and conceptual connections between all the elements of the book.
Reflection on repetition, emergency exits, and our ability to question what we see.
The framed version has the mountain from the poster painted on the frame.
Cansado, sentado en un tren, miraba el sol e intentaba pensar en inglés.
I will be with the dawn wherever she is, daughter of the moon and a silent sun,
I will be there, watching on you, your intentions, your dreams.
Smile to the journey, the change and the rhythm of this river that pretends to be.
One of my first RISO prints.
Un paisaje, el horizonte y las piedras que siempre aparecen.
Quiero volver a pensar en afiches para el páramo por eso estoy poniendo este en este archivo.
Por ahora acá va uno que hice aprendiendo RISO, y esa foto que use me gusta mucho. La tomé en el Chingaza, y no la encuentro por ningún lado.
Passiflora is a city tour business based in Bogota, dedicated to curating exciting experiences within the city for foreigners. Their mission is centered around fostering direct connections with local economies while catering to a vibrant and diverse audience.
Logo and illustration design for Poeos, a floral essence project in Colombia.
First RISO print ever, printed at a workshop with RISO Colmillo in Bogotá.
Staring at the sun is a book project about gaze, sun, power and contemplation.
(*)
Staring at the sun,
give up to the light,
find the center,
the being
Screen printed cards to distribute on fairs.
The beginning of a series of illustrations about seeds and watchers.
It was just that: a beginning.
Cover and back cover for Tajalapiz publication. A sketchbook collection of Bogotá artists.
This brings me good memories.
Poster design for a Barber shop in Bogotá.
I found this image as some of the only left in this old hard drive I had during the last years of Bachelor. There is something I like about this drawing. Something about carving maybe. The poster itself is not great but the wood. I don’t know, I also lost a lot of other things I made on woodblock.
Poster design for a Frankenstein the movie, part of the publication “Afiches de Horror”.
The poster was printed in Offset using two inks.
I remember I enjoyed a lot drawing the title.
Illustrations for a Lighting company website.
Can not recall the company but I liked the result.
Illustrations I made thinking of playing cards and bugs structures. I remember back then I was inspired by this beautiful work of this old guy in Colombia that painted big colored bugs. He was like 85 back then, I wonder what is his name.
A listening calendar that propose a time effort to listen more to others. Every day a sentence with a new question.
I was commissioned to make the creative direction, graphic design and print production.
(More pictures to come) (English version in progress)
Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
<3
As part of the ongoing project Envision Change, Creative Media for Social Change commissioned me to create a publication to wrap up a year of processes with the community. We wrote, designed, and printed a map-like publication that gathers pictures, thoughts, and actions that inhabitants experienced.
Studies of color and digital painting at home.
Impact Mapping of creative Interventions it’s an interactive PDF that shares alternatives to impact measuring on research studies beyond quantitative results.
(Work-in-progress)
Knowledge Landscape was created by Saskia de Wildt, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, as part of their PhD dissertation: “Exploring Polar Bear Research as Ethical Space, Practice and Process of Engagement”.
My role was to set up an infrastructure where Saskia could transform a complex research process into a simple interface that could tell a story. After conversing and exploring possibilities, I set up a Wiki media instance and developed a website that translated the interconnected storyline into a choose-your-own-adventure type of interface. The idea is that the project could organically grow and the interface would do as well.
Poster designed for Juan Francisco Rodríguez film called Parientes del valle luminoso.
The typography I used for the title is the same used in the short, it was made by Francisco scratching directly on the film with a needle .
Graphic and layout design for the PDF publication Samen duurzaan op weg part Creative media for social change activities.
The Doubt Times is a newspaper publication in the format of table placemat that trigger questions about disinformation.
In collaboration with Creative Media for Social change.
Layout design and illustrations for the PHD Thesis publication The Urge to Splurge: Understanding the effects of media cues on impulse buying urges and behavior written by Anne Moes
Playful website to explore the question, where is the sky?
Project made in the context of Declarations
Playing with every english propositions such as “on”, “above”, “around”, “below”, we created a metaphor playground, a narrative website that unfold the question in a surrealist and playful manner.
Full description here plus other tools and processes from that week.
Creative Coding Ecologies is a work-in-process mapping project made by CCU aiming to connect the creative Coding community around the world. We are offering a way to explore and investigate, and also add yourself as an entity by answering the following survey. The next iteration of the project will focus their attention on relation-ability visualization.
Update 2025: The survey and website are down for the moment.
Website design and Coding in collaboration with Niels Janssen for the project De Kapitalisten by Het Nut in the Netherlands. The process was really quick and aimed to produce a website that could fund extra capital for a theatre play. The design emulates a spreadsheet where you could count and add money to it. So far, more than 1800 people have donated. Scroll it down!
This project brought together artists, scientists and citizens to converse and create artworks reflecting on different questions. The output was an exhibition, multiple conversations and this printed book.
Floating Words is a collection of works, part of an ongoing process to explore asemic writing. Words exist as a graphic intention. There is no clarity. Doesn’t my activate upon reading them? Do they just exist to my eyes?
All the stamped designs on the garments were hand cut and pressed by me using leftover material from Diantres, a screen printing and design studio from Bogota, Colombia. I’m grateful for your generosity and love.
The text “They Dream” was written by Nicolás Castro.
All the drawings are part of an ongoing practice to communicate beyond meaning and sense.
All of the garments are single pieces and the ones marked with a ↺ were found in second-hand shops.
🌱 Self-hosted
Series of sketches and website e-commerce project to test Shopify headless Webapp.
The shop doesn’t exist because I don’t know if I want to pay 20 euros per month to Shopify services.
Layout design for the Master’s Thesis publication The ice was blue and the Ice was thick written by Lea Novi.
This was made in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella.
We de try is a publication about listening made in collaboration with the writer Esther Kamara.
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
attempt is an independent publishing project founded by me and Maria Paris. Attempt is an intuitive platform for visual and written language in which we work in close collaboration with artists, writers and designers. Each publication has its own physicalities, paces and form of distribution as our main goal is to move away from the idea of a single and definite end product as the holder of value, thinking on the act of publishing to be elastic, revisited, and ever changing.
This gallery of images is a collection of graphics from the process.
Website design and coding for the online art exhibition “borrar con el dedo lo que se hace con otro” by Rastro. “Erasing with one finger what is done with another” is a Rastro curatorship that questions the possible materializations that digital repetition makes possible. In the contemporary world where our existence is projected as connected fragments and which is built from small corporeal repetitions, it is necessary to dwell on those daily automatisms that cross us unnoticed like the inertia of a global wave.”
Dear reader It is a letter and a micro web application made in Flask to gather questions. It was written in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella. It is inspired by the performance World Question Center made by James Lee Byars in 1969. The first intention of this app was to feed the “Rumination Sessions” of the living glossary project where questions are cards that initiate reflection. Currently, this letter is a living publication that slowly gathers questions from practitioners and readers.
In the back-end it uses Flask, a lightweight web application framework that uses python language and Jinja templates for processing and rendering the webpage. It stores information in a JSON file. Due to its light weight, It can be run on any server. This one is running on my home server.
Looking to expand the possibilities of “connecting” as part of the Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice, I created a role-like game that would reflect and expand the glossary itself by proposing different approaches to it.
The different characters would perform for different perspectives on the connections among:
The liminal, the weaver, the summoner, the otherness, the inner space.
What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
The Digesting Care publication was developed for the EU Commission project Taking Care by Museum Volkenkunde in the Netherlands. It is a static website written by a Python script that takes the content written in markdown and makes it HTML using Pandoc. The website interface filters the content based on a question generated by a small set of parameters. These are defined by us digesting the concepts and unsolved topics of the conference. The website was developed by experimenting with the idea of resilient web design and web-to-print techniques. We printed an edition of 120 copies of 50 different publications.
Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice is an ongoing and ever-changing attempt to introduce a diffractive methodology inside publishing practices, understanding publishing as the mere act of making public. It is organized as a container of words that are never fully defined, only annotated. Words become tools, concepts, resources, and shapes with properties that enhance new possibilities. In this glossary, they don’t close the publishing scenario to territory arts or design. Instead, they are porous and permeable to other spheres of action.
The glossary is seen as mutable, and the current state results from collective workshops where participants are invited to think and converse around its words and annotations. During the workshop, diffraction performs a conscious interconnection of practices beyond reflection.
From the technical side there is source pad were all annotations take place in a markdown format which is processed by a Python script that writes it as a website using Pandoc and then Js.
The living glossary environment tool is a web app tool to make living glossaries from a text file or a Pad (with API KEY). It allows the creation of a static website that uses the idea of a glossary as a layering of annotations rather than a closed list of words and definitions.
On the website you can make a selection of different options regarding the glossary environment you would like to make and it generates a zip file with all the necessary tools to make a living glossary.
This project was developed in parallel with the living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice. In this case, the tool is an attempt to share processes with others.
(Currently Not Online)
Poster design, cover and cassette for Por la inflamada esfera.
*The footnote sentence is taken from the album’s entry on Bandcamp.
This was a beautiful project to make. I wish more of this could come.
Website design and Coding for Rastro, a studio of creation, research and artistic production. For this project in collaboration with Maria we design a space that show case their present and future projects. We developed this project under the umbrella of our publishing project called attempt
Temporary garden is a home small server to host personal and collective projects.
I developed and maintained it myself at home. It currently runs Raspian OS and Nginx as the web server.
I’m planning to move this to the actual index of the directory. No extra design needed. Maybe the intent manifesto on top.
The whole is a partial-topological space build by 14 micro non-games. They intersect, meet, and gather together. Click on the different situations, play using the arrow keys and leave the door open for new unexpected situations. This project was part of the Issue 14.
walkie talkie is a collective publication launched last July in Rotterdam for the grad show of experimental publishing. We, as the graphic design team, design a protocol/system to gather all the submissions from participants. We designed, printed and gave a small booklet that explains carefully the rules they needed to follow in order to write their text and easily adjust them in the overall design made by us.
🌱 Self-hosted (at xpub hub)
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
About the right to life. Atata is a website created for the project Wor(l)ds for the future, the special issue 13 of the course experimental publishing. It takes as its main axis Natalia Chavez Lopez’s essay on the word ATATA and proposes a visual intervention on the text with the interest of making its meaning of interdependence explicit.
Being Atata, the awareness of the relationship between beings as an act of reciprocity, the direct intervention on the text was made on the grammatical connectors to make evident the relation between words. For this, using the Python library NLTK, all conjunctions were changed by bidirectional arrows that visually emphasize the connection.
The intention was that the reader recognizes a visual linker and modifies their reading experience through the navigation of a text that needs to be discovered by clicking on the arrows.
Poster design and titles for Francisco and Jasmin short film
Template design for Louisas project Climbing the firewall.
Text taken from Louisa’s Website
EARTHRISE × Zhouwéi Network is a location-based game I co-created and produced as part of my residency at Roodkapje in 2021. As an extension of my research into geocaching as a game tool, I set up a collaboration between MaMA and Roodkapje, inviting the research duo Liminal Vision to co-imagine this hybrid format in relation to their work Zhouwéi Network. In this inspiring effort, we opened up portals in different locations in Rotterdam, where stories from characters of Zhouwéi Network could be found, iterating life in the future on the various locations based on three potential future societies. For this project, I imagined an alphabet in which symbols correspond to syllables, which can be read by players into code words, using an in-game dictionary. The alphabet was designed by Camilo Garcia Aycardi, based on the aesthetics of the three different societies of Zhouwéi Network.
Pictures taken from the projects page.
Elephant Trails is an app to explore the city and leave traces for thought and mindful encounters. Urban walks for curious minds.
Visual system, graphic design and publication design for Ether-axis project and the exhibition From Then to Here by Erik Peters.
EtherAxis is the result of an ongoing collaboration between me (Camilo García A.), Emilia Tapprest, Erik Peters, Federico Poni, Louisa Teichmann & Victor Evink, as part of the Hamburger Community of Live & Art trajectory of Roodkapje. With the participation of Queer Arcana as performers.
Exhibition Pictures taken from Erik Peters.
{.mediumProcess of transformation of the Ether Axis board to the Scent of Time symbolic space.
Luzblanca.delay is a project I did a while ago. Well, two years ago now. I didn’t finish it. But I wrote a lot about it. I was thinking about time, productivity, and I wanted to draw.
Funnily enough, it was the project where I started flirting with web pages. But the funny thing is, I haven’t finished it yet. I started with React. Obviously, nothing came of it.
I have 40 drawings.
(Work-in-progress?)
Sketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
One time, I was trying to read and I arrived here.
Exploration with RISO colors, magic and reading while traveling in the train.
Colors that are stones, stones that are the source of the words
Website made in Collaboration with Jacopo Lega for Radio Implicances Archive part of the Special Issue 13 in Xpub. Artisan, quick and dirty one.
Incense clock design for the film Scent of Time, inspired by the fifth worlds developed in the project Ether Axis. This iteration in design is made to be drawing as a single line.
Collaboration with Guillotina for crop top design.
This book is a collaboration with my beloved Avital Barkai for her web project Writing Cure. It is sticky to read, full of details and as a book got a nice feeling to the touch.
Every second page you can open it as a poster that interpreted an interface of the website.
We have some last copies available.
Zine Camp is an annual two-day festival for DIY publishers of low-volume publications such as magazines, zines and booklets and visitors/interested in independent publishing, print and binding. The purpose of this festival is to offer a free platform for low-key publishers, creators and visitors to network with each other and provides an opportunity for low-volume publications from DIY publishers.
My roles here were visual identity design, web design and co-direction of the festival, both program and production.
Studies of color and painting.
These are a bit old. It gives me shivers to think about the square format now. Fuck instagram.
Contribution to the project Postal services initiated by Ana Maria Lozano and Sophia Prieto.
Pictures by Ana Maria.
Personal exploration about distance, time, silence and love.
About time, scrolling, clocks and solar circumferences.
More than 500,000,000 objects inhabit the solar system; planets are only the 8 largest after the sun. This zine is an 8-page journey through space bodies that coexist with the largest objects.
A circle is a dot that in its prolongation returns to itself.
About reflection and distribution of critical thought.
T-shirt Illustration design for Colo Coffee in Colombia.
Pattern design for the flower shop Diflora in Bogotá.
Long sleeve design silk-printed by Diantres in Bogotá, Colombia.
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No matter the nature of the thing, the possible jump between its particles creates its life.
Time for them always dilates, expands and become transparent. The appearance of the thing does not lie on its life meaning.
The jump is the indeterminate synthesis of the in-between: the invisible and subtle space of energy.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
Website coding for my brother Guillotina. Simple self-hosted solution written by hand.
Lights, rocks, stems, tension, space and composition.
Once I made sketches for a full series of these prints, I think one day I’ll make it happen.
“morph” is a visual sequence where Scorpio, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and Pluto are astrological triggers for questions about control, trust, detachment, and levity. Using the idea of a loop, this publication is presented as an infinite trace of personal transformation and reflection.
when air hopes for water,
it becomes scorpion to swim,
fully sunk, air forgets how to breathe,
sometimes dies,
sometimes lives,
it shines,
they drown,
both morph.This notebook was made in collaboration with Alberto Miani and Daniela Rodriguez. A offset printed notebook with drawings of particles spreading all over. This object is part of a bigger collection of daily life objects made in collaboration with different artists. An astray, a table cloth and this one, a notebook.
A print made thinking about the possibility that the plants have to bend, connect, trespass and become other.
Natural Convergence: Vegetal Communities Workshop is a project that aims, using plants as a metaphor, to propose reflections on the relationship between human beings.
The workshop invites participants to observe plants, draw them and abstract them into vegetal communities on paper. It introduces the participant into allelopathy and permaculture: two practices where plant relationships are take in account.
Next to the workshop, an installation offers new plastic and spatial possibilities in terms of the relational concept of the project. How the whole is connected with the object, the viewer with the individual, and the participants with the plants. A whole built from the project’s transversal axis: being in relation to one another.
Glory desire was a collective project that, for a full month, aimed to activate the exhibition space El Chino Bogotano with a temporary installation and public activities that reflected on the idea of Glory.
We built a very typical waiting room in offices and health centers in Bogota with TV, coffee, a couple of showbiz magazines, a plant, dirty sofas and a not so clean floor.
Sobre tener como fin común el derecho a la vida
About having the right to life as a common goal
Over het als gemeenschappelijk doel hebben van het recht op leven
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Rather than communicate an objective relate or a story, Encounter seeks to propose several readings about the graphic information printed on paper speculating about three “levels” of communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic. The book use as resources: organic forms that are related; different dimensions of language; paper inserts, and a text that suggests poetic and conceptual connections between all the elements of the book.
Reflection on repetition, emergency exits, and our ability to question what we see.
The framed version has the mountain from the poster painted on the frame.
Cansado, sentado en un tren, miraba el sol e intentaba pensar en inglés.
I will be with the dawn wherever she is, daughter of the moon and a silent sun,
I will be there, watching on you, your intentions, your dreams.
Smile to the journey, the change and the rhythm of this river that pretends to be.
One of my first RISO prints.
Un paisaje, el horizonte y las piedras que siempre aparecen.
Quiero volver a pensar en afiches para el páramo por eso estoy poniendo este en este archivo.
Por ahora acá va uno que hice aprendiendo RISO, y esa foto que use me gusta mucho. La tomé en el Chingaza, y no la encuentro por ningún lado.
Passiflora is a city tour business based in Bogota, dedicated to curating exciting experiences within the city for foreigners. Their mission is centered around fostering direct connections with local economies while catering to a vibrant and diverse audience.
Logo and illustration design for Poeos, a floral essence project in Colombia.
First RISO print ever, printed at a workshop with RISO Colmillo in Bogotá.
Staring at the sun is a book project about gaze, sun, power and contemplation.
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Staring at the sun,
give up to the light,
find the center,
the being
Screen printed cards to distribute on fairs.
The beginning of a series of illustrations about seeds and watchers.
It was just that: a beginning.
Cover and back cover for Tajalapiz publication. A sketchbook collection of Bogotá artists.
This brings me good memories.
Poster design for a Barber shop in Bogotá.
I found this image as some of the only left in this old hard drive I had during the last years of Bachelor. There is something I like about this drawing. Something about carving maybe. The poster itself is not great but the wood. I don’t know, I also lost a lot of other things I made on woodblock.
Poster design for a Frankenstein the movie, part of the publication “Afiches de Horror”.
The poster was printed in Offset using two inks.
I remember I enjoyed a lot drawing the title.
Illustrations for a Lighting company website.
Can not recall the company but I liked the result.
Illustrations I made thinking of playing cards and bugs structures. I remember back then I was inspired by this beautiful work of this old guy in Colombia that painted big colored bugs. He was like 85 back then, I wonder what is his name.
This is another oldie I found and thought it would be nice to add to the archive.
Sticker design of the three piglets tale: House 1, house 2, house 3.
