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Miguel Alfredo Arias, Experiments.

@miguelalfredooooo

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Puerto Rican/Cuban designer and artist. A running list of experiments. A playground for ideas that don't fit neatly into product work or previous material. Generative art, audio, aesthetics, synthesis, agent flows, motion systems built from scratch.

Curious about what the tool makes, and what the hand leaves behind. More on that →

Currently cooking up some things in TouchDesigner.

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Based in San Francisco, California.

If you're into this kind of work, let's talk. Or find me on GitHub, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Featured project

Soothsayer

An eight-track hardware sequencer that lives in a browser tab. Four sampled drum rows and four synth voices, sixteen steps across four bars. Steps store scale degrees rather than pitches, so re-keying the machine re-keys the music instead of breaking it. Sample through the microphone or load a loop, design a voice in the lab without stopping what is playing, and roll the dice to rebuild every sound — it never touches your pattern.

Tone.js · Tonal.js · Prisma · Turso

/soothsayer

Projects

Pocket Sketchbook

A communal canvas with no fixed state. Paint over the last visitor, or clear it and begin again. Each version can be saved to a gallery. Hyper-organic forms set against the grain of AI. Recomposed at anyone's will. Delight is the delta. WYSIWYG.

Click, move, scale, paint, erase, shape, change colors and textures, add covers and images, roll the dice, drip, undo, save.

Canvas API · Prisma · Turso

/pocket-sketchbook

Design By Bulletin

A magazine run by three agents: Editorial, Assignment Scout, and Art Department. Built in Openclaw, art-directed entirely in ASCII and dot matrix newsprint texture, delivered by Telegram bot. Readers vote the theme and the agents make the issue. Readers also get to contribute to the cover of the issue by drawing and saving their interpretation. At times sublime, often pure hallucination.

Python · Telegram Bot · Turso

/bulletin

UI/UX Performance Art

First steps to your well-being. This is nostalgic theater. It's full of easter eggs.

Vanilla JS · CSS

/performance-art-ui

Major Arcana

An infinite marquee of the major arcana. Drag to spin it, tap a card to flip it.

CSS animation · vanilla JS drag physics

/major-arcana

Shaders & Effects

Holographic card effects that follow your cursor.

React Three Fiber · GLSL

/shaders

Pocket Animator

Cards that travel an editable path between anchor points.

Custom sequencer engine

/pocket-animator

About

Miguel Alfredo Arias, Puerto Rican
and Cuban designer and artist.

My work moves between design and other creative pursuits. I explore art, code, sound, aesthetics, synthesis, agent flows, and motion systems built from scratch. Medium ranges from pen and pencil, markers, spray paint, mixed media and collage to fully digital.

I'm drawn to material culture studies: the social life of objects, and how they accrue and shed meaning as they move through time and culture. Every object carries a biography. The Gutenberg press standardized how scripture was presented, and the book became a fixed format from that point on; AI is doing something similar now, "printing" information in a way that standardizes how it's presented and consumed. Like the press, the apparatus doesn't just carry meaning; it acts, producing artifacts of its own. AI is the tool, and the human is the hyper-organic footprint that anchors it.