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*Guión criptográfico* / *Cryptographic script* is a web-based software that encrypts text written in its terminal and generates abstract compositions using popular encyption algorithms and protocols that are commonly found in the building blocks of cryptocurrency blockchain networks.

In the video, Cabret encrypts phrases that echo current concerns on his native Puerto Rico, such as "vengo de una isla que esta en subasta / I come from an island thats at auction", into code that generates a moving composition. Using the same algorithms that enable things like cryptocurrency mining, this software reflects on the current influx of rich mainlanders into Puerto Rico seeking tax haven status for their crypto fortunes. 

Thanks to open source projects [Crypto.js](https://github.com/brix/crypto-js) and [Chroma.js](https://gka.github.io/chroma.js/)

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*Guión* is an ongoing series of browser experiments used to teach procedural language and logic. They combine five basic web concepts: browser event listening (hovers, clicks), introduction to Document Object Model (DOM), a programming interface for HTML and XML documents, realtime alteration of that DOM, browser clock (timeouts, intervals) and loops. 

The idea is to make patterns and animation effects using exclusively character swapping and native javascript code. The page is divided into hundreds of tiny squares where each square is listening to its own ‘hover’ and 'click' events.  When the user hovers (with the cursor) over the squares, animation loops are triggered and the html document is manipulated by characters quickly changing on each of the squares.  The ‘firework’ pattern triggered by clicking is created by mapping the moving shape in the screen; often mathematical equations are used for more complex patterns like this one.  This shape is a recursive loop which infinitely calls upon itself to be re-executed on the new position in the screen.


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*Maquina que aprende mi trazo* "Machine that learn my gesture" is a machine learning project that attemps to teach software how to immitate or extend the artist's drawing gesture. 


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*Origin, Origen* is a data visualization algorithmic graphic that produces thousands of cubes that appear from the center point on the screen.  *Origen* refers to a starting point a beginning of a story, the truth.  In 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by María, the worst most destructive hurricane in the island's history.  At the moment this work was created it was estimated that over 3,000 people lost their lives because of this natural disaster. But later after many studies and investigations this number was increased to over 4,000. This work attempts to put in perspective this quantity.  Each cube represents a person lost.

Music by [Maximilian Julía](https://www.maximilianjulia.com)


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Concieved in 2017, [About-Work.net](https://about-work.net) is an ongoing collaboration between Ricardo Cabret and Maximilian Juliá. The original goal was to initiate a dialogue about accessibility in the context of art fairs, galleries, and cultural institutions.

The first work created was this video piece titled December (seen on the right column).  A few months after Hurricane María; artist and collaborator [Maximilian Juliá](https://diariosdelfango.com), had to leave Puerto Rico because of the conditions on the island. He ended up with friends isolated in Vermont where he shot all of the footage. While he was there, we swapped pictures and messages and through that interchange, the first body of work was created. The video shows Maximilian's video photography of a heavy winter in Vermont and overlayed is a screen recording of the coding work done to create the platform *about-work.net*

Since then, *About-Work.net* has evolved into a platform that produces a variety of projects grounded in web, new media and other more traditional presentations. The latest project, *Nada Tropical*, unites multidisciplinary artists from Latin America and the Caribbean in an exhibition presented in Barcelona.

Early 2021, *About-Work.net* will launch a series of collaborations of web-based projects.

You can look at past projects here:
[https://ww.about-work.net](https://www.about-work.net)


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*Migrant Imaginary* is a project made by artist [Layqa Nuna Yawar](https://layqa.info/) and myself for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. It consisted of educational code and mural painting workshops that led to the design of a mural based on the dreams and visions that immigrant youth have for the city. The project also exists as an online archive where these ideas and reside along with code written by the participants during workshops that also focused on technology and web creation as a metaphor for building identity. 

You can check out the online archive at:
[https://migrantimaginary.info/](https://migranimaginary.info "migrant imaginary")

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Breath is an algorithmic generated graphic that tries to imitate the rhythm of human breathing when in distress. The oscillating rhythm is based on the mathematical curve, sinusoid, while the randomness of the oscillation comes by varying the length of the pieces in the algorithm. The bigger the pieces, the more processing power the computer needs to render it, ultimately causing syncopation on the sine wave. Ultimately the pieces become too large and the program begins to fail ending its operation.

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A conversation between Scarpa's asymmetric sequence, found in most of his architectural works and asymmetry produced by the interaction of an algorithm governed by the trigonometric laws of sine and cosine.


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In this algorithmic generated graphic a simple square slowly vanishes while a K-means Clustering algorithm groups pieces based on their initial random location and then expands their position infinitely into space.


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During the summer of 2019, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló had nearly 900 pages of homophobic, sexist, and other pejorative messages on the application “Telegram” exposed in a security leak. The messages, shared between Rosselló and his inner circle of government officials insulted “women, gay people, moked everyday Puerto Ricans, even vicitms of Hurricane Maria”. That same summer Puerto Ricans marched and protested for eight days in what is still known as the largest protests in Puerto Rican history ultimately forcing Ricardo Rosselló to resign his position as governor of the island.  

*Para Ricky, For Ricky* is a script that scrapes twitter messages that are related to these protests via hashtags and organizes them into random phrases that call out Ricardo Rosselló's immoral behavior and injustices. Some of these sentences also talk about the reasons for the calling of his resignation as governor of Puerto Rico. This script was projected on Calle Fortaleza, the street where the governor's house is
located in San Juan, during the last days of protest. 

You can check out the code for an offline version of the project here:
[https://github.com/rcabret/para-ricky](https://github.com/rcabret/para-ricky)


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