I am a new-media artist exploring physical materials, computation, and sequential storytelling. My practice broadly investigates human-machine co-creation, moving beyond simple automation to collaboration with robotic arms, pen plotters, and computational knitting systems. My work has been featured in Machine Arts magazine, where I advocate for hardware as a computational medium. In 2023 I received the Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award and have since maintained an active practice, exploring responsive and intimate interactions with machines. Currently, I am a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute where my work aims to lower technical barriers in digital fabrication, positioning the machine not as a tool for optimization, but as an active agent in the construction of meaningful artwork. I am also passionate about the preservation and study of comic books, having co-organized a symposium commemorating 100 Years of Colombian comics in 2023 and contributed to digital humanities projects such as the Latin American Comics Archive (LACA).
Affiliation
https://art.cmu.edu/people/angelica-bonilla-fominaya/