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tonz' interactive art portolio https://toniab.com tonz' interactive art portolio Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:47:37 +0000 https://toniab.com en Tales of the Trancestors: The Divine https://toniab.com/Tales-of-the-Trancestors-The-Divine https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Tales-of-the-Trancestors-The-Divine Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:47:37 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 14574801 Tales of the Trancestors: The Divine Live Theatre, December, 2025. Role: Projection Designer, Background Environment Artist Produced by Celebration Theatre. Sold out run at Greenway Court Theatre. Review on Broadway World . Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine reimagines folklore, mythologies, and spiritual guides across time and cultures. Three interwoven stories rooted in Native Hawaiian tradition (Kapaemahu), Islamic mysticism (djinn), and spiritual alchemy (the Rebis), unearth personal and cultural histories to reclaim trans wisdom, healing, power, and joy. <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-150_670.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-150_3840.jpg" data-mid="80116642" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 1005"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-150_1340_c.jpg" /> ART DIRECTION I supported the directors vision in creating a portal for audiences to enter a "world between worlds"—where lineage, desire, time, and space are fluid and ever-shifting. The visual language I directed combined illustration with geometric cut-outs of actual photos to deliver a pop up book like aesthetic that plays with space and time, perspective and reality. TECH SETUP ProCreate for Illustaration, Photoshop for layering and alteration, AfterEffects for animation, QLab for mapping and queueing <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-47_670.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-47_5000.jpg" data-mid="80116643" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-47_1340_c.jpg" /><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-42_670.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-42_5000.jpg" data-mid="80116644" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/k2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-42_1340_c.jpg" /><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-70_670.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="3887" height_o="5830" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-70_3887.jpg" data-mid="80116645" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 1004"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-70_1340_c.jpg" /><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-125_670.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-125_3840.jpg" data-mid="80116641" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 1005"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/d1-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-125_1340_c.jpg" /><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-102_670.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-102_5000.jpg" data-mid="80116647" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/r2-Lex_Trancestors_12Dec2024_Show-102_1340_c.jpg" /><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/Screenshot-2025-02-05-at-4.48.24PM_670.png" width="670" height="432" width_o="2046" height_o="1320" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/Screenshot-2025-02-05-at-4.48.24PM_2046.png" data-mid="80116659" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 432"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14574801/Screenshot-2025-02-05-at-4.48.24PM_1340_c.png" /> Tales of the Trancestors: The Divine Live Theatre, December, 2025. Role: Projection Designer, Background Environment Artist Produced by Celebration Theatre. Sold... Afropunk Reel https://toniab.com/Afropunk-Reel https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Afropunk-Reel Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:15:27 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8834805 Afropunk Highlight Reel, event video, September 2013. Position: Editor. Highlight reel produced under Browntourage with official media access at Afropunk musical festival 2013. Posted on Afropunk Magazine. Afropunk Highlight Reel, event video, September 2013. Position: Editor. Highlight reel produced under Browntourage with official media access at Afropunk musical... Rye Rye Green Screen https://toniab.com/Rye-Rye-Green-Screen https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Rye-Rye-Green-Screen Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:15:20 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8835331 Rye Rye Green Screen, live photobooth, August 2013. Position: Producer and digital designer. I concepted and executed a greenscreen photobooth for M.I.A.'s protege Rye Rye's concert thrown in collaboration with Bay Area Queer People of Color Party Organizations Hard French and Swagger Like Us. Designed the backdrop and batch edited the photos to appear as if participated were in the videogame from Rye Rye's “Boom” video with Rye Rye streaming in on the corner. View Final Album on Facebook <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835331/ryerye-ft_670.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835331/ryerye-ft_960.jpg" data-mid="47672821" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835331/ryerye-ft_960.jpg" /> Rye Rye Green Screen, live photobooth, August 2013. Position: Producer and digital designer. I concepted and executed a greenscreen photobooth for M.I.A.'s... Body Terrains https://toniab.com/Body-Terrains https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Body-Terrains Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:14:59 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8834139 Body Terrains, online exhibit, October 2014, Position: Creative Director, developer. A multimedia piece exploring close-up shots of body parts styled to resemble a landscape. Includes my original looping videos and photos over which I used JS parralax scrolling to display original text from a fellow artist, and a borrowed soundtrack. Viewable Here: https://konversation.us/body-terrains <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8834139/IMG_9430_670.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="3456" height_o="2304" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8834139/IMG_9430_3456.JPG" data-mid="47668403" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8834139/IMG_9430_1340_c.JPG" /> Body Terrains, online exhibit, October 2014, Position: Creative Director, developer. A multimedia piece exploring close-up shots of body parts styled to resemble... FRKN WKND https://toniab.com/FRKN-WKND https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/FRKN-WKND Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:14:50 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 11148356 In Progress: FRKN WKND, Sep 2015 - Present Interface Designer FRKN WKND is Aquma's M.F.A. Thesis Project at University of Southern California's Interactive Media and Game Design featuring collection of short personal games that build a larger narrative about a struggling game designer who lives with his mother in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. We worked closely to ensure usability and visual consistency across mini-games for this narrative project set in a vapor-wave themed phone. IndieCade curated select at E3, Nominee in IndieCade 2016 <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_home.gif" width="225" height="360" width_o="225" height_o="360" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_home.gif" data-mid="60109298" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (225) — 225 × 360"/><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_drumpad.gif" width="225" height="360" width_o="225" height_o="360" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_drumpad.gif" data-mid="60109297" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (225) — 225 × 360"/> <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/tweet_banner_purple_670.png" width="670" height="77" width_o="1104" height_o="128" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/tweet_banner_purple_1104.png" data-mid="60109310" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 77"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/tweet_banner_purple_1000.png" /> <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_momcall.gif" width="225" height="360" width_o="225" height_o="360" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_momcall.gif" data-mid="60109299" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (225) — 225 × 360"/><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_momchoice.gif" width="225" height="360" width_o="225" height_o="360" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/11148356/frknwknd_momchoice.gif" data-mid="60109302" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (225) — 225 × 360"/> In Progress: FRKN WKND, Sep 2015 - Present Interface Designer FRKN WKND is Aquma's M.F.A. Thesis Project at University of Southern California's Interactive Media... Browntourage https://toniab.com/Browntourage-1 https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Browntourage-1 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:14:24 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8896654 Browntourage, 2012 - Present. Position: Co-Founder, Developer/Designer Browntourage is a media agency spanning curatorial projects, experiments in interactive media, brand collaborations and platform for media and design moments that are forward thinking and socially conscious. We are committed to diversity in aesthetics, supporting the work of diverse culture makers, and anticipating socio-cultural trends. Website (Bootstrap & Angular JS) <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/Screen-Shot-2016-03-03-at-12.16.54-PM_670.png" width="670" height="532" width_o="1632" height_o="1296" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/Screen-Shot-2016-03-03-at-12.16.54-PM_1632.png" data-mid="60108441" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 532"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/Screen-Shot-2016-03-03-at-12.16.54-PM_1340_c.png" /> Social Media IG, TW, FB @browntourage (with consultation from Symrin Chawla) <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/b_peach_500.jpg" width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/b_peach_500.jpg" data-mid="60108331" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (500) — 500 × 500"/> Magazine (Wordpress Theme Installation) <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/magazine_670.jpg" width="670" height="449" width_o="686" height_o="460" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/magazine_686.jpg" data-mid="48004954" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 449"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8896654/magazine_686.jpg" /> Browntourage, 2012 - Present. Position: Co-Founder, Developer/Designer Browntourage is a media agency spanning curatorial projects, experiments in interactive... Ju$tin Loans https://toniab.com/Ju-tin-Loans https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Ju-tin-Loans Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:14:10 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8836028 How to Fake it in America, May 2013. Position: Digital Album Artist. I Designed three covers for rapper Ju$tin Loans new mixtape, single, and remix combining visual references like blinged out hotwheels, churros, monopoly money, and cumbia dress to represent Mexican American life as a young boy with big dreams. <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-1_600.jpg" width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-1_600.jpg" data-mid="47675740" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (600) — 600 × 600"/><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-2_668.jpg" width="668" height="668" width_o="668" height_o="668" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-2_668.jpg" data-mid="47675741" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (668) — 668 × 668"/><img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-3_633.jpg" width="633" height="633" width_o="633" height_o="633" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8836028/loans-3_633.jpg" data-mid="47675742" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 (633) — 633 × 633"/> How to Fake it in America, May 2013. Position: Digital Album Artist. I Designed three covers for rapper Ju$tin Loans new mixtape, single, and remix combining... Editorial Collage https://toniab.com/Editorial-Collage https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Editorial-Collage Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:14:00 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8835435 HORSEPOWAR, digital photostory, May 2014. A web based photo spread with full-scale backgrounds highlighting the outfits and activities of Vancouver-based Indian female rapper Horsepowar. <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/horsepowar-ft_670.jpg" width="670" height="414" width_o="1169" height_o="723" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/horsepowar-ft_1169.jpg" data-mid="77246431" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 414"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/horsepowar-ft_1000.jpg" /> TR1LL TEEN GLITCH, Fashion shoot, February 2013 Melancholy cyber kawaii theme with two models dressed in Harajuku Lolita style as characters whose only intimate relationships are to their smart phones and each other. <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/trillteen-ft_670.jpg" width="670" height="410" width_o="972" height_o="596" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/trillteen-ft_972.jpg" data-mid="47673053" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 410"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/trillteen-ft_972.jpg" /> D4RLPL4Y, Lifestyle shoot, Oct 2012 For a Halloween Concert with these artists on the lineup, we wanted to put a nightlife spin on trick or treating and playgrounds. <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/d4rkpl4y_670.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="972" height_o="648" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/d4rkpl4y_972.jpg" data-mid="61437360" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 446"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/8835435/d4rkpl4y_972.jpg" /> HORSEPOWAR, digital photostory, May 2014. A web based photo spread with full-scale backgrounds highlighting the outfits and activities of Vancouver-based Indian... Life Syllabus https://toniab.com/Life-Syllabus https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/Life-Syllabus Mon, 13 May 2024 23:22:25 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 14530864 Life Syllabus: BrowntourageRookie Mag, 2016. Role: Co-curator, co-author. Putting our own spin on the "syllabus," Browntourage Co-founder Hawa Arsala and I compile, discuss and share some of the essential ideas (and associated authors, artists, thinkers, and doers) that have guided how we navigate the world. After all it's the inspiration to find ways to thoughtfully live creative lives that laid the foundations for Browntourage. Read on Rookie Mag <img src="proxy.php?url=https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14530864/ApprovAppre_670.png" width="670" height="628" width_o="1120" height_o="1050" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14530864/ApprovAppre_1120.png" data-mid="79934249" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 628"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/16/541998/14530864/ApprovAppre_1000.png" /> Illustration by Mojuicy for Rookie Mag. Life Syllabus: BrowntourageRookie Mag, 2016. Role: Co-curator, co-author. Putting our own spin on the "syllabus," Browntourage Co-founder Hawa Arsala and I... MAS#ALLAH Zine https://toniab.com/MAS-ALLAH-Zine https://toniab.com/following/toniab.com/MAS-ALLAH-Zine Mon, 13 May 2024 23:15:15 +0000 tonz' interactive art portolio 8896645 MAS#ALLAH Project Art Zine, August 2014. Role: Producer, Print Designer and Contributor. A printed compilation of original photography, art, poetry, and prose submitted by second generation youth of the Middle Eastern diaspora grappling with family, beauty and identity in a Western digital age. Published in conjunction with the MAS#ALLAH exhibition by Hawa Arsala at B4B3L4B gallery as seen in Eastbay Express, and sold at Bay Area LadyFest. MAS#ALLAH Project on Tumblr MAS#ALLAH Project Art Zine, August 2014. Role: Producer, Print Designer and Contributor. A printed compilation of original photography, art, poetry, and prose...