Pierre Puentes Gómez

Designer interested in music, agriculture, and audiovisual production.


Education

2014 - 2018
Universidad de los Andes
Bachelor's Degree in Design (emphasis on design for communication)



Short courses and workshops

2025
Universidad de los Andes
Humanidades digitales: archivos y colecciones

Virtual course on how to critically and practically design, digitize, describe, manage and activate digital collections led by María José Afanador Llach and Sergio Rodríguez Gómez.


2025
Platzi
Development, deployment, and FSE in Wordpress

Virtual courses led by Lucio Negrello and Cristian Ramanzin.


2024
El Semillero
Producción de árboles

Tree production and nursery management virtual course led by Enrique Trujillo.


2023
La Pequeña Granja de Mamá Lulú
Principios de manejo y construcción con guadua

Practical course on bio-construction with guadua bamboo led by Hernando Hincapié and his family.


2023
Zero To Mastery
JavaScript: The Advanced Concepts

Modern advanced JavaScript practices virtual course led by Andrei Neagoie.


2022
Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA)
Agricultura ecologica: fertilizacion, suelos y cultivos

Principles of agroecology virtual course led by Diego Alberto Ruiz Sanabria.


2021
Royal College of Art
Ethical Practices to Guide Innovation

Responsible design principles and solutions virtual course led by Laura Ferrarello and Rute Fiadeiro.


2020
Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá & Gusano Films
Artificio: Taller de creatividad e inteligencia artificial

AI and creativity workshop led by Jorge Caballero, Anna Giralt Gris, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick.



Languages

spanish | native


english | IELTS Academic 7.5 (C1)


french | basic (A2)


HTML / CSS / PHP / JavaScript / Processing / Wiring - Arduino / Python / TouchDesigner / Max-MSP | intermediate to advanced


Experience

2024
Universidad de los Andes

Research professional. Interface design, web development and video production for the Viajeros del Orinoco del Siglo XVIII project.


2023 - Present
Freelance

Web development for Hierba Santa, Territorios de Vida, Liga de Salud Trans and CEMI in alliance with the design collective Sola.


2023
Universidad de los Andes

Research professional. Interface design and web programming for the Inventar Colombia project.


2022
IDARTES & Plataforma Bogotá

Development of the graphics and artificial intelligence laboratory Injertos Tipográficos.


2021
Freelance

Web development for Boroló, an initiative by the NGO Artemisas and the journalism medium 070 (Cerosetenta) to talk about protest and social mobilization.


2020 - 2021
Near Space Interface

An initiative developed alongside Andrés Burbano that seeks to investigate planetary phenomena through data and computational tools.


2020 - Present
I.D BOGOTÁ MUSIC

Bandcamp Page | Art direction, graphic design for drum and bass releases and audiovisual production for live events (VJing, video mapping and livestreaming).


2020
Universidad de los Andes

Web-optimized 3D models creation and web page development for the Archaeological Remote Sensing investigation project of the School of Architecture and Design.


2020
Universidad de los Andes

Assistant professor in the Master in Digital Humanities' summer course Communicate data. Visualize knowledge.


2020
Freelance

3D and video production for Andrés Burbano and Karen Holmberg’s Double Sided Immersion virtual and physical installation in the Critical Zones exposition at the ZKM | Center for Art And Media Karlsruhe.


2019 - Present
Piesã

Instagram Page | Graphic and editorial experimentation project alongside Sara Vera with three published magazines.


2018 - 2019
RE.SET AUDIO

Art direction, graphic design for drum and bass releases and audiovisual production for live events (VJing and video mapping).


2018 - 2019
Fundación Horizontal & El Equipo Mazzanti

Development of tools, strategies, interactive hardware/software and web pages for spatial interventions.


2018
Freelance

Concept, art direction and graphic design for the first edition of the CØSMOS Festival produced by OFF Conciertos, BAUM and Trazendez.


2018
Universidad de los Andes

  • Investigation Assistant for the Andrés Burbano's FAPA research grant's project Visualization, Sonification, and Materialization of Data.
  • Teaching Assistant in the Interactive Environments class of the School of Architecture and Design.


2017 - 2022
Freelance

VJing, video mapping and video production for Radikal Styles Festival, Bogotrax Festival, Estereo Picnic Festival, ahora and Unterbog.


2017
Fundación Cultural Rat Trap

Photographic archive, screen printing and web page development.


2017
+Play

  • Audiovisual production with new technologies (VR and visual programming).
  • 3D animation for 'Una observación al fin del mundo', winner project of the 2017 IDARTES Fulldome video art creation grant and the Competitive Exhibition at the Immersphere Festival (BR).


Publications

2023
.able journal

Holmberg, Karen, et al. Chaitén: Land of Volcanoes. .able journal, 2023. https://able-journal.org/chaiten-land-of-volcanoes/



Exhibitions

2025
Eugene Science Center's Planetarium (US)
Video Sync

Exhibition of the piece Materia Ondulatoria.


2023
Festival ARTTEC + Candy Flip Festival (CO)

Exhibition of the piece Cosmovisión.


2023
Antidote Festival
fx(hash) Art Tour Space

Online exhibition of some of my generative tokens minted in the fx(hash) platform.


2023
Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
2023 mowna Biennial

Online exhibition of the photogrammetry of the 16'x10'x10' Sau ceramic sculpture hand-painted by Charlie Mai and Glenn Mai.


2023
Hong-Gah Museum (TW)
Generative Taipei On-Site' by VolumeDAO

Exhibition of the generative piece Muraka in the section Recursiveness.


2020
Museum of Arts and Sciences (US)
Macon Film Festival | Fulldome selection

Exhibition of the piece Materia Ondulatoria.



Conferences

2020
Online conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada
E.8 Unearthing the Imaginary panel

Near Space Interface keynote.



Awards and distinctions

2021
IDARTES

Plataforma Bogotá creation grant in Art, Science and Technology for the production of the interdiciplinary laboratory Injertos Tipográficos.


2020
Macon Film Festival

Part of the 2020 Macon Film Festival / MAS Fulldome official selection with the work Materia Ondulatoria.


2019
IDARTES

Fulldome video art creation grant for the production of Materia Ondulatoria with Daniel Shambo.


2014
Universidad de los Andes

Quiero Estudiar Escala undergraduate scholarship.