sarah alvarez / salvarez


sarah alvarez is a designer interested in facsimile, appropriation, and poor images. They’ve worked in and around the music and video game industries for the last five years, with a consistent focus on indie labels, DIY, and smaller creatives.

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salvarez (b. 1998, New Jersey, US) holds an MFA from the University of Missouri and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. They work mainly with digital and physical assemblage,  to map the relationships between dispersion, recursion, and diaspora in a post-Internet, mass-produced material world.

de generacion, 2022 A printer “hacked” to print physical receipts of a false latine consensus on latinidad.

de generacion, 2021
microcomputer, receipt printer, Twitter API, tweets

de generacion was an installation comprised of a receipt printer that archived the latine colonial project. The printer awakened at the times I tend to check Twitter, and printed out the latest tweet(s) within a wide search query that focuses on supposed latine consensus ("we as latinos/as/es/x," "latinidad," et cetera).

The more I interacted with Twitter, the more tweets the printer archived – the more the printer archived, the more latinidad was both reaffirmed as a social construct and disrobed as a form of eugenic automation. The double entedre of “receipt” – as printed proof of transaction and, recently, as a digital screenshot of someone’s treachery, bigotry, or general misdoing – is very much intended. The process captured here is unending, but the capture itself came to an end when the handlers at an art institution tore off the receipt.




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