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caco peguero




Caco Peguero is an artist, creative technologist, and educator whose work explores the relationship between environments, technology, and collective behavior. Working across generative media, immersive environments, video games, and interactive systems, he creates projects that examine how cultural, ecological, and technological systems shape one another. His practice is informed by a background in architecture and an interest in environmental storytelling, speculative systems, and the role that interfaces and representations play in shaping perception.

His work often focuses on the feedback loops between the built environment and natural systems. In Holographic Zoo, developed during a residency at CultureHub, Peguero explored mixed reality environments populated by responsive digital organisms, investigating ideas around simulation, ecology, and collective interaction. His GAN-based animations further examine environmental transformation through speculative imagery that flips conventional relationships between terraforming and architecture, imagining built environments overtaken, absorbed, or re-authored by ecological systems.

Across both physical and digital space, Peguero frequently uses plants and gardens as metaphors for migration, care, adaptation, and survival. In Green Therapy, he developed a wearable garden system carried as a backpack, transforming the body into a mobile ecological infrastructure. The project extended into a parallel video game environment, creating a mirrored relationship between physical installation and virtual space while exploring themes of environmental dependency, maintenance, and personal agency.

Alongside his artistic practice, Peguero teaches courses in artificial intelligence, new media, applied mathematics, and real-time visualization at UCLA and Woodbury University, helping artists and designers critically engage with emerging technologies through experimentation, technical literacy, and creative research. 


Education
- HOLO ZOO: a holographic zoo for extinct animals : Exhibition for Culture Hub Residency-
 The Built, The Land : A Dance : GAN Animatino Exhibited at CICA International Symposium for Visual Culture
- Portable Park : Terrarium Back Pack Wearable with Paired Video Game : Exhibited at ReFest LA


Selected Works