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Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción

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pandora’s box (broligarchs, AI, and the techno-authoritarian surveillance state), 2025

With atoms and orbits and constellations of data-points whirling around it, this picture forms a sky spectacle in which color … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

chill out (generative adversarial networks), 2025

In this painting, I aimed to visualize the intricate, tense dance of generative adversarial networks, where one neural network creates, … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

tarot reading (prediction pretending to be perception), 2025

In this piece, I considered how machine learning systems, especially predictive ones, blur the line between seeing and guessing. The … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

darwin among the machines, 2025

This painting takes its title from an 1863 essay by Samuel Butler, who speculated that machines might one day evolve … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

find me (tractates cryptica scriptura), 2025

This piece began as a meditation on signal and noise, how meaning is obscured, revealed, or scrambled in both spiritual … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

chrono-synclastic infundibulum, 2025

This work borrows its title from Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, where a chrono-synclastic infundibulum is described as a … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

force field, 2025

This piece is all boundary, an energy perimeter, a ritual frame, a coded signal at the edge of something unknown. … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

calor ahora, 2025

This painting is a visual echo of a rhythm I couldn’t get out of my head, one of Pachyman’s tracks … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

sunset sound, 2025

This work is a visual dub session, built layer by layer, with rhythm, echo, and space held in tension. It’s … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

sale el sol, 2025

This painting is named after Pachyman’s track, “Sale el Sol,” or “the sun rises,” and it’s all about emergence, radiance, and … More

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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