Guadalajara
Art Lab
It is a space for creation and research for resident artists, where experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogue activate contemporary processes. It also serves as a meeting point between professors and residents, fostering exchanges, critical reflection, and collective production.
During their six-week residency, the Interspecifics collective developed Wave Reflector, an electromechanical piece that captures and reproduces the movement of brainwaves through an array of 64 ceramic oscillator channels housed in a semi-dome. The piece functions as a performative instrument, allowing for real-time awareness of the flow of energy in the brain using the principle of neural feedback. It also incorporates sound elements, continuously producing a series of semi-generative compositions by recording the collected data. The project was developed in collaboration with students and professors of the departments of Design, Biotechnology, and Mechatronics. The results were presented at a concert at the Hospicio Cabañas Museum.
Matrices, efluvios y deseos by Dulce Chacón was a six-week residency in which the artist worked in the Primavera Forest in collaboration with the Regenerative Design program and local elementary school children. Through activities designed to raise environmental awareness, native and medicinal plants were identified, promoting an appreciation of the transformative power of the arts. These plants were then represented in drawings created by the elementary school children and the artist.
Marcela Armas's project is an intercampus residency between Guadalajara and Querétaro, titled Espejo del Holobionte, an analogy between the health of the earth and the health of human beings. She uses chromatography and iridology to robotically print iris fragments onto clay. The artist has been working at the Tec de Monterrey's Experimental Agricultural Field (CAETEC), an agro-industrial laboratory located in Querétaro, collecting soil samples, which will be combined with iris scans of students to create the final piece.
Mobile Spaces
It is a project that commissions itinerant exhibition spaces to artists, designers and architects, with the aim of bringing arts and culture to the public space.
This is the first commission for a mobile gallery, created by artist and designer Norberto Miranda, based in Guadalajara and born in Mexico City. The Dome was installed on the esplanade of the library at the Monterrey Campus during the CUMULUS international conference on art and design research in 2024; at the plaza of the Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento in Guadalajara, with artwork by María José Arjona and an activation by the Colectivo Libre de Danzón, in December 2024; and near the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City during 2025, as part of the public program for the exhibition Intersecciones by Said Dokins, an artist-in-residence at the Querétaro Campus.
This mobile space emerged as a collaboration between multidisciplinary artist Liz Kueneke and Lucía Ortiz's studio. As part of her Tejido Urbano (Urban Weaving) project, Kueneke developed a series of embroidered maps, co-created with people from various public spaces in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. Through a list of questions about territory and care practices, people take a needle and thread, marking a symbol on the map to leave their response. Ortiz then used these textiles, alluding to the Mexican rebozo, to compose the structure of the mobile gallery.
