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title: "Map of the work: art, tool, physical and digital"
description: "The map of the work of Alexander Frings: 16 projects placed between physical and digital, and between art and tool. Each one links to its file."
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# Map of the work of Alexander Frings

The map places the 16 projects on two axes: from physical to digital, and from art to tool. Two projects that share a tag are linked.

## Tool, on the physical side

- [ActiveUnlock: Exergaming](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/activeunlock) (2026): CRTIC research and prototype on body-tracked physical play to increase active breaks at work. Using MediaPipe as the computer-vision…
- [Digital Signage with Audience AI](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/digital-signage) (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…
- [3D Modular Structure](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/estructura-modular-3d) (2023): A construction system where no panel is the protagonist: architecture emerges from assembly. An exploration of how the repetition of a…

## Tool, on the digital side

- [CRTIC-Chat](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/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…
- [La Vega: An Isometric Map of the Market](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/la-vega) (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…
- [Oráculo: A Digital Twin of Chile](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/oraculo) (2026): A multi-agent simulation engine to support decisions at CRTIC. From real Chilean signals it builds a knowledge graph, generates dozens of…
- [PortugalEdge: Live Detection by Distillation](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/portugaledge) (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…
- [VOLT.EXIF](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/volt-exif) (2026): A mobile app for photographers: it reads a photo's EXIF metadata (camera, lens, aperture, shutter, ISO), applies filters with character…
- [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…
- [Gus: AI Brand Assistant](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/gus-asistente-marcas) (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…
- [Parametric Spatial Mapping](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/mapeo-espacial-parametrico) (2023): Color as data. Data as geometry. A translation exercise where spatial information (density, flow, temperature) becomes built volume. The…

## Art, on the physical side

- [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…
- [Perforated Wood Structure](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/estructura-perforada-madera) (2024): Architectural membrane that modulates light through computationally generated perforation patterns. Algorithmic optimization for…
- [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…
- [Parametric Tree Table](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files/mesa-arbol-parametrica) (2023): Nature doesn't design in straight lines. This table was born from a concrete purpose: making the inorganic look organic. The base was…

## Art, on the digital side

- [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…

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