Each collaborator brought a discipline the work needed: programming, urban research, writing, interaction design. The work is never solo — it is the residue of sustained creative dialogue.
Robert Goldschmidt
Mutable Sculpture · 2005–present
A twenty-year collaboration fusing physical sculpture with computational projection. Maple, veneer, video art, and custom software — exhibited from SIGGRAPH to Brown's Granoff Center.
6 works · 4 exhibitions
Sarah Nelson Wright
Empathy for Place · 2015–present
VR installations and immersive landscapes exploring urban waterfronts and ecological precarity. Queens Museum, Staten Island Museum, BioBAT, and a continuous touring practice.
3 works · 7 exhibitions
Gorman · Cannizzaro · Speicher · Budish · Domino
Seær · First Signals
Language decay systems, real-time visualizers, and interactive video sculpture — collaborations spanning Brown, Boston Cyberarts, and SIGGRAPH.
3 works · 3 exhibitions
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Mutable Sculpture
Tempest
with Robert Goldschmidt
Mutable Sculpture
Writhe
with Robert Goldschmidt
Mutable Sculpture
Cascade
with Robert Goldschmidt
Mutable Sculpture
Overlooked
with Robert Goldschmidt
![S[tr]eam installation](assets/img/05-s-tr-eam_2x.webp)
Mutable Sculpture
S[tr]eam
with Robert Goldschmidt
Mutable Sculpture
Erosion
with Robert Goldschmidt
Empathy for Place
Over the River
with Sarah Nelson Wright
Empathy for Place
Hidden Vistas
with Sarah Nelson Wright
Empathy for Place
Immersive Landscapes
with Sarah Nelson Wright
Seær
Lingua Ignota
with Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro
First Signals
c4b3r@r7$
with Ian Budish
First Signals
B!mboo
with Jasper Speicher & Mark Domino
Edrex Fontanilla is an experimental filmmaker and new media artist whose work fuses sculptural and computational methods to explore perception, materiality, and time. For twenty years he has built objects that sit deliberately at the threshold — between sculpture and projection, between writing and pattern, between a place and its disappearance — and invited viewers to watch their own perception decide.
He trained at Brown University (B.A. Visual Art; M.A. Computer Music and Multimedia Composition; M.F.A. Literary Arts, Writing Digital Media) and is an Associate Professor at St. John's University, where he founded the Game Development and Emerging Media program. He began exhibiting in 2001.
His work has been exhibited across four countries — the United States, Nepal, India, and the United Arab Emirates — including a juried selection at SIGGRAPH's "Slow Art" exhibition, a featured installation at TechFest Mumbai, and a continuous touring body of work shown at five New York museums and institutional galleries.
Museums, international festivals, juried exhibitions, and civic spaces — 2001 to 2026.
| Year | Exhibition / Work | Venue | Collaborator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Liminal Luminance | Brown University, Granoff Center | Robert Goldschmidt |
| 2024–25 | Changing Landscapes | Manhattan Multimedia Center | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2024–25 | Water Stories | Staten Island Museum · BioBAT Art Space | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2024 | ALTER ECO | Arsenal Gallery, Central Park | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2023 | Vulnerable Landscapes | South Street Seaport Museum | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2022 | Art at the BlueLine | Atlantic Gallery · NYC | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2019 | Evanescence (solo) | Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu | |
| 2018 | Erosion (solo) | Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno | Robert Goldschmidt |
| 2016 | Hidden Vistas | Queens Museum — Chance Ecologies | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2015–16 | Over the River | Radiator Gallery · Chance Ecologies Festival | Sarah Nelson Wright |
| 2014 | Overlooked 2.0 | TechFest, IIT Bombay | Robert Goldschmidt |
| 2008 | S[tr]eam — Slow Art | SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles | Robert Goldschmidt |
| 2005 | c4b3r@r7$ · Rope & Wood | Boston Cyberarts Festival | Ian Budish |
| 2001 | All the News That's Fit To… | David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University | Jasper Speicher |
Edrex's practice extends into art direction and interactive design for exhibitions, performances, and media installations. The same instinct that drives the sculptural work — perception before instruction, material as metaphor — shapes how audiences encounter a space, a screen, or a sound.
From SIGGRAPH's Slow Art to TechFest Mumbai, from Boston Cyberarts to the Queens Museum, the work asks viewers to watch their own perception decide — and then to decide again.
Exhibition Design
Installation choreography, projection mapping, ambient sound design for gallery and festival contexts.
Interactive Systems
Custom software, sensor-driven sculpture, real-time generative visuals, and SMS-triggered installations.
Teaching & Research
Associate Professor at St. John's University. Founded the Game Development and Emerging Media program.
For exhibition inquiries, studio visits, or collaboration proposals, reach out. The practice is based in New York City and has shown internationally since 2001.
studio@edrex.studio