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Aphidoidea

Los Angeles, California, USA

A multidisciplinary art and design studio, also presented as Aphid Studio, led by Jesus Eduardo Magaña and Paulina Bouyer-Magaña. It develops public installations responding to site and participation.

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Practice
public art, site-specific installation, interactive art
Based in
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Festival gateway · Indio, California · 2015

Chrono Chromatic: a gateway that marks time

Aphid Studio documents Chrono Chromatic at Coachella in Indio, California, in 2015. Visitors could move through a gateway of differently sized and colored elements. Distinct lighting sequences marked each hour, giving the installation a timekeeping role within a music and arts festival.

Aphid Studio — Chrono Chromatic ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Could changes in light help visitors understand a site's daily rhythm or event schedule?

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Public park event · Los Angeles, California · 2017

Through the Cattails: shade and light in a park program

Grand Park's 2017 Interaction Park announcement lists a 40-element version of Through the Cattails for its Event Lawn. The host describes hexagonal Coroplast forms providing daytime shade and animated light at night. That count belongs to this announced presentation and should not be treated as a fixed specification for every version.

Gloria Molina Grand Park — 2017 summer program ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Where should an installation provide daytime shelter, and how should that same area function after dark?

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Chrono Chromatic ↗

Aphidoidea

illuminated gateway installation

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Year / version
2015
Documented at
Coachella Music and Art Festival, Indio, California
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Crash Site Alpha - 13 ↗

Aphidoidea

installation

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Year / version
2013 (honorarium guide)
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The Seed ↗

Aphidoidea

illuminated public sculpture

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Materials
LED lighting
Year / version
October 2017
Documented at
Jane Warner Plaza, San Francisco, California
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outdoor

Through The Cattails ↗

Aphidoidea

kinetic light canopy

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Materials
Coroplast, EMT pipe, Light modules, Networked microcontrollers
Year / version
2013 (producer project index)
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Aphidoidea is based in Los Angeles, California, USA. Documented disciplines include public art, site-specific installation, interactive art.

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