Projects by Alexander Frings

16 projects in 4 families: installations, applied AI, computational design and digital fabrication, software and tools.

Installations

Romeo & Juliet Flowers: Teatro Municipal (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…
StarMatch: Networking Data Art (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…
Metamorphosis (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…

ActiveUnlock: Exergaming (2026): CRTIC research and prototype on body-tracked physical play to increase active breaks at work. Using MediaPipe as the computer-vision engine, it proposes a background app that…
CRTIC-Chat (2026): CRTIC's own conversational assistant built on nanochat, Andrej Karpathy's small open language model. It is fine-tuned on a synthetic dataset that represents the centre's identity…
Digital Signage with Audience AI (2026): Digital signage that reacts to who is looking at it. On the screen's own hardware, a vision model estimates presence, attention (where the person is looking) and audience…
Oráculo: A Digital Twin of Chile (2026): A multi-agent simulation engine to support decisions at CRTIC. From real Chilean signals it builds a knowledge graph, generates dozens of synthetic people and has them debate in…
PortugalEdge: Live Detection by Distillation (2026): Detect, live and at over 30 frames per second, only the Portugal players in a match. A large vision-language model, slow but able to understand “the ones in red shirts”, acts as…
Smart Expense Agent (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…
Gus: AI Brand Assistant (2024): A platform of AI agents for the food business, born as a thesis for UAI's MSc in Innovation and Design. n8n automation for small owners: it manages the brand identity (palette…

Perforated Wood Structure (2024): Architectural membrane that modulates light through computationally generated perforation patterns. Algorithmic optimization for structural lightness and aesthetic complexity.
3D Modular Structure (2023): A construction system where no panel is the protagonist: architecture emerges from assembly. An exploration of how the repetition of a simple unit generates spatial complexity…
Parametric Spatial Mapping (2023): Color as data. Data as geometry. A translation exercise where spatial information (density, flow, temperature) becomes built volume. The form isn't decorative: it's the direct…
Parametric Tree Table (2023): Nature doesn't design in straight lines. This table was born from a concrete purpose: making the inorganic look organic. The base was algorithmically generated from how a tree…

La Vega: An Isometric Map of the Market (2026): Santiago's Mercado La Vega Central as an interactive isometric map: you fly over it, click a stall and get its name, trade, typical produce and hours. The 555 stalls are…
VOLT.EXIF (2026): A mobile app for photographers: it reads a photo's EXIF metadata (camera, lens, aperture, shutter, ISO), applies filters with character and composes the image with that data in a…