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Design & art as tools to question how technologies shape meaning, behavior, and experience.
I work across digital and physical media, often misusing tools, systems, and interfaces to resist predictability and the growing sterility of contemporary space
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GAB BRIOSO
Manila-based ·
Teaching design theory + studio ·
Exhibited locally + internationally
Critical and intentional work that invites attention.
i work between art and design, using spatial thinking to question how technologies shape meaning, behavior, and experience. We move across digital and physical media, often misusing tools, systems, and interfaces to resist predictability and the growing sterility of spaces optimized for frictionless interaction.
about gab brioso
Spatial thinking as method
Every project begins as a navigable structure: a path, a hierarchy, a pause. We design how attention moves, like programs in space.
Misusage and the broken tool
We repurpose tools and workflows until they stop behaving “correctly.” The goal isn’t smoothness: it’s specificity, resistance, and surprise.
Form that performs
We’re drawn to weird, exaggerated, irregular forms: performative rather than resolved. Nooks, crannies, and inconsistencies invite exploration, misuse, and multiple interpretations. Friction becomes an entry point.
A Practice of Experiences, Objects and Worlds
I make artifacts and structures that don’t rush to resolve themselves. Irregular forms hold tension; details and inconsistencies create pause. The work is meant to be used—like a navigational tool—for living inside increasingly specific conditions.
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graphic
Tangible
Residual Objects
A failed 3D print becomes an origin point. A nozzle clog produces a machinic asteroid; instead of troubleshooting away the failure, the object is allowed to persist, scanned, compressed, and reinterpreted across platforms. Failure becomes a generative condition and the beginning of a new object body.
2026.02
experiment
Digital
Machine Logs 01-02
An attempt to force conversational AI into visual territory and let it produce something uncanny. Machine Logs treats AI not as assistant but as misused collaborator, extracting strange formal tendencies and translating them into tactile surface.
2026.02
object
Tangible
Blue Objects
A set of plywood-and-metal objects built from obsessions with alignment, superfurniture, and room-scale urbanism, designed while thinking through brutalist atmosphere, domestic density, and the idea that furniture can behave like miniature city planning.
2026.02
exhibition
Hybrid
Worlding Architecture
An exhibition proposing that future environments will not only be constructed, they will be worlded. Across installations, speculative structures, and digital interventions, the work positions architecture as synthesis: space shaped by material, perception, interaction, and code, assembled into a total-ecology condition.
2026.02
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Developing a habit of documenting my thoughts
I hope i can make this consistent, but i am INTERESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND WORK. I BELIEVE THAT MAKERS SHOULD BE HYPER-AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WRITING CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ACHIEVING THIS.
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Design & art as tools to question how technologies shape meaning, behavior, and experience.
I work across digital and physical media, often misusing tools, systems, and interfaces to resist predictability and the growing sterility of contemporary space
View Works
GAB BRIOSO
_Manila-based·
_Teaching design theory + studio·
_no specific client profile·
_has one foot in research·
_and one in capitalism·
i work between art and design, using spatial thinking to question how technologies shape meaning, behavior, and experience. We move across digital and physical media, often misusing tools, systems, and interfaces to resist predictability and the growing sterility of spaces optimized for frictionless interaction.
about gab brioso
Critical and intentional work that invites attention.
Spatial thinking as method
Every project begins as a navigable structure: a path, a hierarchy, a pause. We design how attention moves, like programs in space.
Misusage and the broken tool
We repurpose tools and workflows until they stop behaving “correctly.” The goal isn’t smoothness: it’s specificity, resistance, and surprise.
Form that performs
We’re drawn to weird, exaggerated, irregular forms: performative rather than resolved. Nooks, crannies, and inconsistencies invite exploration, misuse, and multiple interpretations. Friction becomes an entry point.
A Practice of Experiences, Objects and Worlds
I make artifacts and structures that don’t rush to resolve themselves. Irregular forms hold tension; details and inconsistencies create pause. The work is meant to be used—like a navigational tool—for living inside increasingly specific conditions.
View Works
Residual Objects
A failed 3D print becomes an origin point. A nozzle clog produces a machinic asteroid; instead of troubleshooting away the failure, the object is allowed to persist, scanned, compressed, and reinterpreted across platforms. Failure becomes a generative condition and the beginning of a new object body.
January 18, 2026
graphic
Tangible
Machine Logs 01-02
An attempt to force conversational AI into visual territory and let it produce something uncanny. Machine Logs treats AI not as assistant but as misused collaborator, extracting strange formal tendencies and translating them into tactile surface.
January 15, 2026
experiment
Digital
Blue Objects
A set of plywood-and-metal objects built from obsessions with alignment, superfurniture, and room-scale urbanism, designed while thinking through brutalist atmosphere, domestic density, and the idea that furniture can behave like miniature city planning.
January 7, 2026
object
Tangible
Worlding Architecture
An exhibition proposing that future environments will not only be constructed, they will be worlded. Across installations, speculative structures, and digital interventions, the work positions architecture as synthesis: space shaped by material, perception, interaction, and code, assembled into a total-ecology condition.
January 7, 2026
exhibition
Hybrid
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Developing a habit of documenting my thoughts
I hope i can make this consistent, but i am INTERESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND WORK. I BELIEVE THAT MAKERS SHOULD BE HYPER-AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WRITING CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ACHIEVING THIS.
