I’m Bianca, a Mexican-American artist–designer and educator from Detroit and Los Angeles. My
practice involves working in a transdisciplinary manner to
re-interpret colonial histories and marginalized identity through
investigations on digitization and language. In
tandem, I design books, exhibition identities, and websites with
collaborators in the social, arts, and culture sectors.
As an educator, I am actively developing decolonial pedagogical
frameworks that center transformative learning as a way towards
collective liberation.
On the tangible side, here is a class publication containing student work
that explores
color relativity through subtractive and additive color processes (a'la Albers). We took a visit to Haas
Special Collections to view the
Interaction of Color--and expanded on Albers' assignments to incorporate screens (RGB) and
printers (CMYK) in
addition to cut-paper. While at Haas we also viewed the Munsell color wheel, and Pantone swatch books.
The book was distributed to students in the course but is also aimed at being a
teaching tool for faculty looking to incorporate Albers into their courses. Please write to me if you'd like
a copy!
6.18.24
New identity and website for
Latinx Coalition
Chats, a Latinx architecture conference organized by Liz Galvez (Office
for Example & UC Berkeley) and José Ibarra (University of
Colorado Denver). Conference took place on May 30–31 in New York
City. Website was launched in March.
1.14.24
Launched a new portfolio site for José Ibarra this week. View it
here:
joseibarra.com
Background color change at different scales
11.15.23
Made with a custom program I wrote in Python. It's a fairly simple
set of instructions that tells the computer how to modify an image
and stitch it back together into a gif.
Papa Bel como Monarca––Llendo/Viniendo
11.14.23
Recent video work for the wonderful José Ibarra and his amazing
project
Table Manners
over at the University of Colorado Denver Department of Architecture
and Planning. Videos 2 and 3 were made collaboratively with Jessica
Flemming––I drove to her apartment in New York with my camera,
tripod, greenscreen (poster), and a grocery bag full of disposable
plateware which we used for filming multiple stop-motion vignettes.
Collaboration with Jessica Flemming
Collaboration with Jessica Flemming
4.21.23
A bit late on this update, BUGWORLD opens on Monday, 4/24! Very
happy to be in the company of Hiba Ali, Grayson Earle, Eileen Tjan,
and Kira Xonorika. Looking forward to sharing a new video i've been
working on. I also wanted to express my gratitude to Olivia Alonso
Gough, the brilliant curator and person who invited me to
participate.
1.8.23
This March I'll be showing a new video and interactive work for
Bug World (New Art City) (Organized by Olivia Alonso
Gough).
9.20.22
Developed a new undergraduate course called
always coming home–which I am co-facilitating this semester
at the University of Connecticut—where I am currently a Visiting
Assistant Professor of Design.
Take a look
