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mery glez

I'm a video designer who studied Design in Milan, Italy not only give me the opportunity to study in one of the best European design schools, but it fed my desire to learn more about cultures other than my own and to work with various international artists and teachers.

My years pursuing a degree in Advertising and Public Relations in Bilbao and Bari and living in Edinburgh taught me about other languages, cultures and about who I was, maturing far from my family, my language and my country. I learnt to observe, discovering other colours, sensations, sounds, interests, and people. When I lacked words because of the limitations of language, images gave me a new way of communicating and expressing myself.
I was exchange student in the School of Visual Arts in New York, it was very stimulating for both my work and me.

The first aspect of my work that I would like to emphasize is my intent to materialize the image.
I design visual performances to engage the public in a joint experience between video, sound, light, form and new tecnologies. Using the technique of videomapping, I create visual shows manipulating lights and images on solid or architecture structures to understand the three-dimensional reality, suggestive perspectives and innovation spaces for interpretation.

I think this “interdisciplinary” experience in the Fab Lab Academy is what I need in this moment to grow up and create interactive video scenographies. I work with others disciplines of Visual Arts like programing, dance, theatre and sound design. The opportunity to attend the Fab Lab Academy, is important in this moment to learn how to learn. It would be very interesting to work with students and artist from around the world, grow up like video designer, mature my work on video scenographies, performance and installations and interact with different means of expression.

I have worked very hard and will continue to do so in order to achieve my goal and dream of becoming a great video designer.

1week//

Collaborative Technical Development, Documentation, and Project Management

• Welcome To Fab Lab BCN • 1st MIT lecture: Introduction about Fab Labs and Fab Network • assignment: plan and sketch a potential semester project//

• Intro and Tutorial to version control (Mecurial)
• Design and create a personal website/ portfolio to describe week by week your work and your final project

2week//
Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Modeling

• Intro to 2D and 3D design software // Illustrator & Cinema 4D

• Model (draw, render, animate, simulate, …)

• assignment: a possible final project, and post it on your class page

3week//
Comptuter-Controlled Cutting

• Design and create a project on the laser cutter and / or vinyl cutter

4week//
Electronics Production

• Each student will assemble their own fabbable in-system programmer (Fab ISP) for use in the class

• Learn to mill boards on the milling machine

• Practice surface mount soldering techniques

• Program AVR microcontrollers

5week//
Computer-Controlled Machining

• Learn to make something big out of wood on the Shopbot CNC router

6week//
Electronics Production

• Learn to modify one of our existing electronics “hello world” examples or create your own project

7week//
Molding, Casting and Composites

• Learn how to create detailed molds from machinable wax and make casts from them

• Create composite parts or structures

8week//
Embedded Programming

• Learn to program AVR micorcontrollers

9week//
3D Scanning and Printing

• Learn how to turn a physical object into code

• Then learn how to take that code and print it as a physical object

10week//
Input Devices

• Learn to make a circuit board with a input sensor (light, switches, temperature or ultrasonic, etc.)

11week//
Interface and Application Programming

• Learn to visualize the output of a sensor board (that you build in the previous input devices unit)

12week//
Output Devices

• Learn to control a output device (LED’s, speaker, video or motors)

13week//
Mechanical Design

• Assemble a the mechanical structure of a machine designed by a MIT graduate student

• Last year we made the MTM Snap-Lock milling machine

14week//
Embedded Networking and Communications

• Learn to make devices that talk to each other (serial bus, radio or infrared)

15week//
Machine Design

• Assemble a the electronics and program a machine designed by a MIT graduate student

• Last year we made the MTM Snap-Lock milling machine

16week//
Digital Fabrication Applications and Implications

• Learn about the broader applications of digital fabrication and what Neil Gershenfeld and his graduate students at MIT are currently working on

• Guest lectures from MIT grad students and other industry professionals

17week//
Digital Fabrication Project Development

• Using the skills you have learned, plan and document a final project that integrates at least two of the topics covered in the course

• Students work on their final projects

18week//
Invention, Intellectual Property, and Business Models

• Guest lectures from experts in the field

• Students work on their final projects

19week//
Final Project Presentations

• Labs around the world meet to present their final projects

Final Project

A potential final project could be:

IDEA// Using video mapping technique on a modular structures build portable video scenographies. I create visual performances for different kinds of events, festivals and parties.

PLAN// my idea is still working progress and open to grow up with new inputs that are coming from this Academy Fab Lab period, but I want to move this kind of modular structures in both sides: one with video porjection material like polipropileno and the other gkind of mirrow. This both sides create a combination of visuals and lights efects.

SKECTCH//

#BWALL

#Description
This structure has been inspired by the design of Eillen Gray, Black Block Screen, 1923

#Great for
live performances to show logos on a modern display wall for visuals

#Struttre specifications
width: 5,25 mt
height: 3,50 mt
depth: 0,75 mt
weight: 35kg

this structure can be hung or set on a tripod
and may be extended in rows and columns

#Video Projector specifications
ansi lumen: 6000-8000
resolution 1024x768px

Check the gallery below and have a look my modular structures.

Contact me

If you have some inputs, ideas, links... and you want to share with me I would love to share too