Portfolio

Selected Works

Corrina Espinosa

Autonomous

Soup new media art

Manifest Dystopia

Manifest Dystopia is an augmented-reality (AR) exhibition spread out across the city of Denver, Colorado, as a series of 22 "Walkable Art Clusters" in popular art districts & neighborhoods like Sloan's Lake, RiNo, 16th Street Mall, Santa Fe Art District and MORE, as well as stand alone AR art on murals in between. Winner of Denver Westword's "Best Renegade Art Show" in 2023.

Fishbowl

A short animation made in Blender

Autonomous Boogie

Site specific, interactive installation for the Ephemeral exhibition at Art Gym Denver. Life sized puppets on a 20' wall activated by motion sensors. Featuring a live performance of human dancers interacting with paper dancers. 2017

Reverse Mermaid

This represents one of my numerous Augmented Reality Canvases—an image crafted in Photoshop complemented by a 3D animation produced in Blender. It's an integral part of a broader series I've been developing.

Programming, Learning to Curtsey

Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system.Thinking about gender roles and how it's so deeply integrated into culture. Little girls are programmed to curtsey like little robots.

Doubt's Echo Infinite Zoom Deforum

Commission made for Spectra Art Space's Fall 2023 immersive exhibition. Created with Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere & stable diffusion AI.

Inferno

Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system.Depicts a loose narative of the afterlife.

Doll House Dreams

Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system. Depicts a surreal dream of carnival proportions.

Trump Sickness

Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system. A nauseating commentary on the anxiety, stress and general malaise caused by the current political climate.

Subconscious Attic

Kinetic collage using a DC motor and custom lights. A girl appears to be ordinary, watching television, but there is something hidden deep inside of her subconscious.

Pinky

Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system. A depiction of angst, anxiety and that feeling of crawling in your skin. Inspired by Pink Floyd's "The Wall."

At the Swamp (Finger Puppet Theater)

Kinetic Collage with glove controller. Moving fingers in the gloves activate movement on this narrative of mythical swamp creatures.

Anxiety Box

Kinetic Collage. Viewer can control the speed of the motors and motion in accordance with their own anxiety.

A Kinetic Selfie

Immersive installation using a large DC motor powered mobile with transparent prints and projected vortex. Viewers are invited to step inside of my metaphoric head and take a look at the subconscious memories and concepts that drive me.

Souls in Jars

Projection Mapping. I went out into the creek one night and captured a variety of souls stuck between her and the afterworld. I keep them in jars.

Dream Ark

3D Collage. I captured some of my dreams and I keep them in tiny jars.

Free Poetry from the Universe

Performance Art. A variety of machines mix up words and phrases, and a claw machine randomly selects them to go into a blender, which whirrs them up onto a sticky sheet of clear paper to produce free poetry from the Universe. Viewers take home a unique poem that was serendipitously made for them. All words and phrases are harvested from science magazines and women's magazines, because that combination makes the best love poems.

A Temporal Paradox

Life-Sized Kinetic Collage. A time machine housed in a curio cabinet, with a high-power, plutonium-alternative cam system, making time travel possible! Unfortunately, the machine is stuck in a temporal paradox— no forward or backward motion, only the smearing hybridization of souls from various eras trapped in an infinite loop. Nevertheless, the machine works its magic— by the time you finish gazing into its windows, you will have traveled through time.

Walking Home

A mobile sculpture, artificial intelligence. What it feels like to live in a city, moving around frequently-- urban nomatic.

Ghost in Meat Skin Coat

Meat Puppet Theater, Kinetic Collage, back-lit with motor driven cam system. I am but a Ghost, with a meat-skin-coat and armature of bones. Activated by proximity sensor.

New Life with You

Back-lit, vinyl on acrylic. How it feels to start a new life with another person.

A Lady in Love

What I think it can feel like to be a lady in love.

Lady Like, People with Vaginas

A comedy about what it's like to be a lady... no men were harmed in the making of this film. (volume is neccessary, click to hear it.)

A Day in the Life of a Unicorn Herd

A documentary about the mysterious Unicorn.

Selected Student Works

Graceful Warrior

Small animated loop made in Blender.

Lego-safety pin record player

Using arduino, this Digital Art 2 student made a record player out of legos, a safety pin, an a microphone amplifyer system.

Dancing Anime Hologram

This Foundations 1 student used clear reflective plastic, an ipad and software to create a dancing anime hologram.

At the Seventh Seal

VR, A-Frame 3D Environment

Projection mapped building

This Digital Art 2 student projection mapped a building.

Self-Opening Sandal

For Wearable Technologies, this student used a servo motor and arduino to invent the self-opening sandal! It closes on it's own too!

Device to Assist Visually Impaired

For Wearable Technologies, this student created a device to help the seeing impaired. If you hold the glove out in front of you it will buzz when something is in the way within 4 feet.

A Wizard's Den

This Digital Art 2 student projection mapped a fire in the very cold parking lot to create a wizards living quarters and incorporated a short performance into his installation.

Magic Lapel Flower

An Engineering graduate student in my Wearable Technology class made a magic trick flower with a flexible sensor to activate it.

Lies Vs. Truths

Student in Digital Art 1 made a series of GIFs to hide the terrible truths in these iconic images, and then expose them.

Interactive Projection Installation

A student in Digital Art 2 used processing to create an installation that uses a camera to pick up the viewers in the room and convert it to a digital image that is projected onto the wall.

Interactive Sound Installation

Student turned the metal rails into a musical instrument using pick up mics and other electronics.

Daydream

Video and animation made using Premiere Pro and After Effects. Student replaced a character from the movie with himself using Green Screen Techniques.