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Avelino Duarte




A People’s History of Capitalism

New Rocks


a project by  💾🌵(2017)

Produced while in residence at Autodesk’s AIR program Fall 2016.
Special thanks to geologist Andrew Alden and Pier 9 AIR team.

Desire Trails 2018 at Headlands Center for the Arts




While we are now familiar with algorithms in our online lives, their effects on the built environment and the offline world are less known. New Rocks explores how advances in computing and fabrication might shape our everyday places.

Rocks are everywhere. While they can take millions or billions of years to form, we developed a new lithic technic to generate forms using the latest in photogrammetry, 3D printing and neural networks.


















Avelino Duarte





A People’s History of Capitalism