In my center, a cyborg seed is Roxana Barba’s new live interactive performance, exploring questions related to the future, divination, and transformation. Inspired by the Peruvian Pallar Moche — an ancestral black and white “oracle bean” — and the human body in the post-human age, this work deals with the organic, the algorithmic, and the divine. 

Immersed in five channels of video created with computer graphics, motion-capture performance, and AI-generated imagery and sound, two performers explore the cyborg seed-body, questioning how we define technology in relation to mortality and transcendence. Tickets are priced at $30/performance and include general museum admission. 

‍In my center, a cyborg seed is one of six 2022 Knight New Works and a recipient of a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts grant.

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Credits:

Performers: Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto

Music and sound: Carlos Dominiguez 

3D Animation: David Correa

Touch Designer animation: Antonia Hinestroza

Programmer: Rodrigo Arcaya 

Set design and construction: Claudio Marcotulli, Lili(ana) and Sterling Rock 

Original costume design: Lisu Vega 

Lighting Designer: Ana Maria Morales 

With funding support from Knight Foundation, NALAC Fund for the Arts. 

Special thanks to MadLabs, Miami Light Project, Koubek Center, Inkub8, Laundromat Art Space, Daniel Almeida, Juan Sanchez, Maritza Villavicencio, Julia Zurilla.