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Abecedarios en Madrid
04 Nov 2025
"Decision Drawings" from a series of daily drawings I have been producing on and off over the past few years, often as a morning ritual.
The drawings consist of stamped ink on paper with the binary “SI/NO” (Spanish for “YES/NO”). The work is loosely based on cellular automata in computation, simple computer models that simulate complex systems using a grid of cells. Each cell in the grid follows a set of rules determined by its direct neighbors, and the automaton evolves in discrete steps as cells turn on and off, and from these simple local interactions, complex global patterns and behaviors emerge.
In this drawing series, I reproduce something akin to a cellular automata using stamps on paper, assigning a different set of rules to the YES and the NO stamps before beginning each drawing and allowing the set of rules to evolve as the drawing progresses and the two rule sets begin to interact.
As the drawing develops, I intuitively start to respond to the patterns that start to emerge, adjusting the rules slightly to reinforce or disrupt them. Each consecutive drawing usually begins as a variation on the rules from the previous day, creating a gradual evolution across the series.
Decision Drawings, 2024-Ongoing
Ink on paper
15 x 22 in. each
(38 x 56 cm)
11 Sep 2025
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10 Sep 2025
This recent silkscreen edition is currently available at Galeria Extra in Guatemala City. @la_extra____________
The print is one of many studies I produced during my last year studying architecture. I was interested in exploring different methods for trying to better understand the proportions in different plant species local to Guatemala. The original photograph is of a Tillandsia (air plant) species I grew up surrounded by, I wrote a script that analyzes the curves in the image and tries to locate the curves that start to approximate a perfect circle. Whenever a curve in the plant's structure approaches this, a spherical volume is created on the image plane. The resulting image is a render of this digital architecture that is produced on top of the original photograph.
The image is then printed using a five color screen printing technique, layers of paint are pushed through a dot matrix, creating a final print with a texture that closely resembles the texture of the air plant itself. Specifically, the small trichomes that allow the plant to live by absorbing moisture directly from the air.
Tillandsia (Tectorum x Palacea), Volume & Structure Study, 2023
5 color screenprint on coventry rag paper, Edition of 40
14 x 18 in.
(35.56 x 45.72 cm)
23 Aug 2025
After what feels like quite a long time without posting about anything on here consistently, I'm going to try to start posting more about my work soon...
Here's some excerpts of different diagrams/sections from my written thesis at MIT. All trying to describe different forms and processes as part of my practice. Including instability as form in a work of art, exhibitions as networks of interdependence, and the different roles that instructions, rule-based systems and contracts might take on when staging evolutionary processes as a guiding form in (formless?) works of art.
Excited to be diving deep back into some of these ideas soon... In the next couple of weeks I'll be trying to post photos from the past couple of years.
21 Aug 2025
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05 Oct 2024
Studio lately
05 Oct 2024
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29 Nov 2022
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25 Nov 2022
“When we attune ourselves to the multiple intelligences of nature, we recognize that the technology is already there. It’s just about a willingness to pay attention.” As a graduate student in the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program at MIT, Alejandro Medina has identified a simple formula for a lifetime’s work. The task is to attend, to attune, and to create.
The conundrum is how to shape the conditions that allow for that sustained attention. Reconfiguración, an exhibition of five new works produced by Medina during his first year of graduate study, carefully arranges the space of the Wiesner Student Art Gallery into a training ground for perception and imagination. While the title of the exhibition refers to the central work in the exhibition—a series of mobiles composed of fallen branches sourced from the MIT campus—it might equally refer to the synaptic repatterning that occurs when we are compelled to slow down, tune in, and observe what emerges. The exhibition encompasses media including sculpture, drawing, video, and immersive sound, and although the mood might be meditative, the stakes are high. Medina’s guiding preoccupation is the presence and threat of climate change; his work is motivated by the urgent need to rethink relationships between nature, technology, and science, making way for new paradigms of resilience and innovation.
Reconfiguración is currently on view at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery (MIT Building W20, 2nd floor) from September 9th to October 29th. Open everyday from 9am-9pm.
Text by Mathilda Bathurst for Arts at MIT
03 Oct 2022
Reconfiguración - opens next Friday at the Wiesner Gallery at MIT (with an opening reception on September 16th from 5-7 pm). Swing by if you're around!
"In Reconfiguración, Alejandro Medina presents five new works produced during his first year as a graduate student at MIT’s program in Art, Culture & Technology. The works were created
out of the specific context of being at MIT and are conceived using materials derived from the university’s setting — the scientific research paper becomes the form for a new series of drawings, branches collected throughout the university’s campus are re-engaged with gravity in new structural configurations, and cardboard/paper waste from the Media Lab’s facilities are brought back to life as a 20 foot mural. The work centers around the artist’s preoccupation with climate change, particularly the urgent need to rethink relationships between nature, technology and the sciences in order to build resilience against the challenges posed by the future." @actmit @artsatmit
01 Sep 2022
Extensión (2019) is largely inspired by the architect Antoni Gaudi, and his use of catenary curves and chain models as a pre-computational technique of designing and optimizing the structures for his buildings.
The installation is composed of branch segments and bamboo sticks. The bamboo is stuck through the pith of the branches creating a single interconnected network that can easily be constructed and edited without the need of any adhesives.
The network is hung to the ceiling of the space with monofilament anchors that are distributed on a predetermined grid . As the network is constructed, segments are added and subtracted until all of the monofilament anchors are perfectly straight (at 90 degrees). At this point none of the anchors are in tension (other than gravity) and the more complex network that is formed below the grid has reached a state of equilibrium.
In theory, similar to Gaudi’s models, this network could then be turned upside down and begin to describe the structure for a building.
29 May 2021
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