Bio

Sal is a Chicago-based creative technologist, artist, and performer whose practice examines the cultural and generational disconnection of being a fourth-generation Mexican-American, using emerging technologies, sound, and interactive media as conduits for reconnection with heritage and identity. His work spans creative computation, realtime software, motion capture, and generative sound. Rooted in a background in marching percussion, his earlier work paired motion capture with free-drumming to explore the tension between improvisation and rigid structure, a thread that still runs through how he approaches the body, rhythm, and technology.

 

Sal has recently been focusing his efforts on bringing the Chicago creative community together through organizing TouchDesigner Meetups, and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus.