luis toledo

digital artist / PhD student(& software product manager & UX researcher & creative coder & game developer)

I like to experiment with digital technology, user interface aesthetics and playful interactions

artworks

alien machine for broken meditations

net.art piece based on the exploration of automation, interaction degrees and guided meditations
made during Karen Palacio's 2022 workshop "La construcción de sentidos en el arte computacional: composición de lenguajes creativos".

vainilla javascript + tonejs
check it out ↗️

beware the glitchy cloud

a p5.js sketch on a big screen
Programa la plaza, Glitches y modificaciones @ MMMAD, Madrid. 2021
source ↗️

soñé con helado

net.art piece based on oniric exercises
made during Arcangel Constantini's 2019 workshop: "Laboratorio de creatividad especulativa en prácticas artísticas sobre la percepción y atención plena"
MACO, Oaxaca. 2019
check it out ↗️

WIP.txt (collab)

an interactive installation about machine's automatic writing
in collaboration with Susana PG and Diego Navarro
PAM!2019 Valencia
Video + description ↗️

Itzalean (collab)

interactive installation on borders and fragility
in collaboration with Iosune Sarasate as a product of her artistic residency
Mediaestruch and l’Estruch Fàbrica de Creació, Catalonia. 2018
Video + description ↗️

Echo Chamber

interactive AI twitter bot installation
Ars Electronica Campus exhibition, Linz. 2017
Official exhibition page ↗️.
Analysis ↗️ and Q&A ↗️ by Mat Janson Blanchet

live @ pluton

Live audio and video distortion performance
Plutón, Valencia. 2016
Video ↗️

writings/research

Jugando a la interfaz

The user interface as a videogame mechanical and narrative resource
Master Thesis, 2019
PDF ↗️
itch.io ↗️ list of video games with relevant GUI

scientific publications

my orcid profile with the list of publications

others

my itch.io page with some games i made
a collection of interesting changelogs
a collection of games using the user interface for mechanics and/or narrative
soundcloud noise &|| ambient sound experiments
videos from past projects and prototypes
my old webpage abandoned at 2017

tools I made

ofxPresets

openFrameworks parameter interpolation + sequencer addon
Handy library to manage scenes and transitions in your oF
github repo ↗️

pikama

(Raspberry pi) Motion tracking library
OpenCV2 python osc/wss/rest + web api for media projects, raspberry pi oriented
github repo ↗️

bio

education

Master in visual arts and multimedia, Spain 2019. UPV ↗️
Erasmus staying at Interface Cultures Master program, Austria 2017. Kunstuniversität Linz ↗️
Engineer's Degree in Information Technology, Mexico 2005.

listener

workshop: La construcción de sentidos en el arte computacional: composición de lenguajes creativos by Karen Palacio, 2022 WIP ↗️
seminar: Post-web: de la utopía a la distopía by Victor Gabriel García Castañeda, 2021 CUNA ↗️
workshop: One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age by Olia Lialina, 2019 The Influencers ↗️

cv-luistoledo.pdf

contact

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