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# Alexander Frings: design engineer and AI researcher

Alexander Frings is a Design Engineer with an MSc in Innovation and Design and an AI researcher at CRTIC, pronounced "critic": the Center for Technological Revolution in Creative Industries. Based in Santiago, Chile.

A designer who thinks with technology. Design Engineer with an MSc in Innovation and Design. AI researcher at CRTIC, pronounced "critic": the Center for Technological Revolution in Creative Industries.

Native Spanish. Fluent English. Japanese N5.

## Areas of work and tools

- **ai-generative:** ComfyUI · StreamDiffusion · TouchDesigner · MadMapper · body tracking · interactive projection
- **ai-applied:** agents (Claude API · n8n · WhatsApp) · computer vision (VLMs · LoRA · edge detectors) · local LLMs
- **ai-tooling:** Claude Code · Python · n8n: plugins, automations and tools of my own (PortugalEdge, this system)
- **computational:** Grasshopper · Rhino · CNC · laser · 3D print · robotic arm
- **art-direction:** brand identity · UI/UX · worldbuilding · product design

## Learning now

AI agents · LLM automation · advanced digital fabrication

## Career 2023-2026

- **2023**: Design foundation: parametric, 3D modeling, spaces, products.
- **2024**: The jump to AI: real-time generative, fabrication robotics, first agents and automations.
- **2025**: Public-scale installations: Teatro Municipal, StarMatch.
- **2026**: Tools of my own, built with AI: edge detectors (PortugalEdge), agents, this system. Writing.

## Featured projects

- [Romeo & Juliet Flowers: Teatro Municipal](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/flores-romeo-julieta) (2025): Interactive wall at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago for the Clásica No Convencional gala. A laser tracker detects the visitor's silhouette and transforms it in real time with generative AI into a…
- [StarMatch: Networking Data Art](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/starmatch) (2025): Data art and B2B networking installation designed for events. It transforms the attendee list into an interactive 3D galaxy: each person is a star. When someone activates theirs, the installation…
- [Smart Expense Agent](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/agente-rendiciones) (2024): AI agent connected to WhatsApp to receive and process photos of financial documents. Computer vision + NLP to extract data, detect anomalies and structure into a corporate database.
- [Metamorphosis](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/metamorfosis) (2024): Generative art installation for the CRTIC Lab. A digital mirror that transforms the visitor's identity into permanent mutation, exploring the paradox between persistence and change. Real-time open…

## What is on offer

- [AI for innovation](https://apexdesign.cl/en/services#ia-para-la-innovacion): A hands-on workshop centred on design methodologies and artistic thinking: how to take an idea to an innovative solution that works, with artificial intelligence as the tool. Automations and agents come in at the end, as one more piece.
- [Automations and agents](https://apexdesign.cl/en/services#automatizaciones-y-agentes): An agent or an automation connected to the tools you already use (WhatsApp, email, spreadsheets, databases), up and running and in charge of one concrete task.
- [Websites that rank](https://apexdesign.cl/en/services#sitios-web-con-posicionamiento): The site designed and built to measure, with SEO from the ground up, and advice on how to distribute the content well.
- [Custom software and apps](https://apexdesign.cl/en/services#software-y-apps-a-medida): A web or mobile application, designed and built end to end, with AI built in where it adds something.
- [Operations and data flows](https://apexdesign.cl/en/services#organizacion-operativa-y-flujos-de-datos): A diagnosis, the workflow and data flow defined (content management included), and the tools, with AI, to keep it running over time.

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