Al GRANO: Framing Worlds is a composite gallery installation with individually installable artifacts that can be shown in various combinations. Three cognitive “chunks” explore different electronic technologies to address historical, cultural, scientific and geopolitical positions related to maize, a contested grain considered both food and cultural symbol in Mexico and a source of macro profits for multinational agribusiness.

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AL GRANO: Framing Worlds

AL GRANO: Framing Worlds (2015), installation composed of Vinyl Cutouts, 3D prints, and an interactive app displayed on iPad, Balance-Unbalance 2015, ASU Herberger Institute Night Gallery. (© Pat Badani)

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AL GRANO: Hack

AL GRANO: Hack (2013), detail of the installation, two glitch images on adhesive vinyl adhered to the wall, shown at the Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas, Festival de la Imagen 2014, Manizales, Colombia in 2014; and at ASU Herberger Institute NIGHT GALLERY, Tempe, Arizona, USA, in 2015. (© Pat Badani)

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AL GRANO: Crop-Cropping

AL GRANO: Crop-Cropping (2013). Screenshots captured on iPhone from the interactive app. composed of silhouettes in the shape of Maya glyphs representing codes related to maize culture. The silhouettes reveal ASCI and hexadecimal code hacked by the artist using texts from the cryptic 1949 novel “Men of Maize” by Latin American writer Miguel Angel Asturias. (© Pat Badani)

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