INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNER | CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

JESS ADRIANA RIVERA

INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNER | CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

JESS ADRIANA RIVERA

Jess Adriana Rivera is a Los Angeles born interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist whose practice integrates embodied experience, neurotechnology, and ecological consciousness. Her work spans biosensing installations, interactive new media, generative processes, and speculative design, with a consistent focus on making invisible physiological and environmental conditions perceptible through technology. Grounded in feminist HCI and wellness awareness, her research addresses the psychological, physical, and spatial effects of trauma, gendered violence, chronic stress, and institutional harm, investigating how biometric feedback and AI driven reflective tools can support somatic attunement and self understanding.

Rivera operates across scales, from noninvasive wearables and object based devices to immersive reactive installations, each calibrated to produce tangible feedback from biological, neural, and environmental data. Through computational media and real time signal processing, she creates encounters that reactivate the latent relationships habit renders dormant, anchoring the senses to movement, presence, and the material conditions of a given site.

Jess Adriana Rivera is a Los Angeles born interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist whose practice integrates embodied experience, neurotechnology, and ecological consciousness. Her work spans biosensing installations, interactive new media, generative processes, and speculative design, with a consistent focus on making invisible physiological and environmental conditions perceptible through technology. Grounded in feminist HCI and wellness awareness, her research addresses the psychological, physical, and spatial effects of trauma, gendered violence, chronic stress, and institutional harm, investigating how biometric feedback and AI driven reflective tools can support somatic attunement and self understanding.

Rivera operates across scales, from noninvasive wearables and object based devices to immersive reactive installations, each calibrated to produce tangible feedback from biological, neural, and environmental data. Through computational media and real time signal processing, she creates encounters that reactivate the latent relationships habit renders dormant, anchoring the senses to movement, presence, and the material conditions of a given site.

Jess Adriana Rivera is a Los Angeles born interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist whose practice integrates embodied experience, neurotechnology, and ecological consciousness. Her work spans biosensing installations, interactive new media, generative processes, and speculative design, with a consistent focus on making invisible physiological and environmental conditions perceptible through technology. Grounded in feminist HCI and wellness awareness, her research addresses the psychological, physical, and spatial effects of trauma, gendered violence, chronic stress, and institutional harm, investigating how biometric feedback and AI driven reflective tools can support somatic attunement and self understanding.


Rivera operates across scales, from noninvasive wearables and object based devices to immersive reactive installations, each calibrated to produce tangible feedback from biological, neural, and environmental data. Through computational media and real time signal processing, she creates encounters that reactivate the latent relationships habit renders dormant, anchoring the senses to movement, presence, and the material conditions of a given site.

Rooted in lived history and collective memory, she challenges dominant narratives of desire and utility and the colonial, patriarchal orders that dictate bodily appearance, gender conformity, and whose embodiment is valued or erased, exploring what it means to survive and reimagine in the margins, shaped by ancestral ties, Indigenous lineages, and histories of displacement and resilience. Drawing from decolonial thought and feminist theory, she confronts the layered effects of racial inequality, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression while proposing new frameworks for care, public memory, and speculative futures.

Rivera has exhibited internationally at venues including the Basilica di San Marco, Arsenale Nord, and CREA Contemporary Art Gallery in Venice, Italy, the CICA Museum in South Korea, and the Art|Sci Center at the California NanoSystems Institute. She is a Master in Design Studies candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and is cross enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Arts from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Rooted in lived history and collective memory, she challenges dominant narratives of desire and utility and the colonial, patriarchal orders that dictate bodily appearance, gender conformity, and whose embodiment is valued or erased, exploring what it means to survive and reimagine in the margins, shaped by ancestral ties, Indigenous lineages, and histories of displacement and resilience. Drawing from decolonial thought and feminist theory, she confronts the layered effects of racial inequality, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression while proposing new frameworks for care, public memory, and speculative futures.

Rivera has exhibited internationally at venues including the Basilica di San Marco, Arsenale Nord, and CREA Contemporary Art Gallery in Venice, Italy, the CICA Museum in South Korea, and the Art|Sci Center at the California NanoSystems Institute. She is a Master in Design Studies candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and is cross enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Arts from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Rooted in lived history and collective memory, she challenges dominant narratives of desire and utility and the colonial, patriarchal orders that dictate bodily appearance, gender conformity, and whose embodiment is valued or erased, exploring what it means to survive and reimagine in the margins, shaped by ancestral ties, Indigenous lineages, and histories of displacement and resilience. Drawing from decolonial thought and feminist theory, she confronts the layered effects of racial inequality, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression while proposing new frameworks for care, public memory, and speculative futures.

Rivera has exhibited internationally at venues including the Basilica di San Marco, Arsenale Nord, and CREA Contemporary Art Gallery in Venice, Italy, the CICA Museum in South Korea, and the Art|Sci Center at the California NanoSystems Institute. She is a Master in Design Studies candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and is cross enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Arts from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNER | CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

JESS ADRIANA RIVERA

SELECTED works

SELECTED works

SELECTED works

STUDIO AREAS OF PRACTICE

Rivera runs an interdisciplinary studio across creative technology, AI, and HCI design. She develops immersive experiences through real time data streams for installations, live events, and cultural programming, producing audio reactive visuals, projection mapped content, and live coded performances. She builds custom software prototypes and algorithmically driven application frameworks for research, wellness, and applied settings, integrating API pipelines, biosignal tracking, and user input architecture.


She creates original generative artworks from scholarly, scientific, and historical research for academic labs, heritage organizations, and design studios, translating archival material into multimedia works unique to each exhibition. Her output also covers visual identity, print, film production, environmental storytelling for stage sets, product campaigns, and architectural applications, alongside interactive web based projects informed by biometric or ambient sources.


Rivera consults on sustainable product and packaging development, pairing ethical sourcing with narrative strategy. She offers production, curatorial, and marketing support for gallery programs, social channels, and commercial content, contributing to academic, artistic, and critical discourse.


Rivera leads workshops in creative direction, eco branding, and cross disciplinary methodology that center inclusivity, restorative practice, and community resilience. Her humanitarian efforts extend to visual storytelling, documentation, and field based aid with international refugee communities, ecological farms, and animal sanctuaries.

Rivera runs an interdisciplinary studio across creative technology, AI, and HCI design. She develops immersive experiences through real time data streams for installations, live events, and cultural programming, producing audio reactive visuals, projection mapped content, and live coded performances. She builds custom software prototypes and algorithmically driven application frameworks for research, wellness, and applied settings, integrating API pipelines, biosignal tracking, and user input architecture.


She creates original generative artworks from scholarly, scientific, and historical research for academic labs, heritage organizations, and design studios, translating archival material into multimedia works unique to each exhibition. Her output also covers visual identity, print, film production, environmental storytelling for stage sets, product campaigns, and architectural applications, alongside interactive web based projects informed by biometric or ambient sources.


Rivera consults on sustainable product and packaging development, pairing ethical sourcing with narrative strategy. She offers production, curatorial, and marketing support for gallery programs, social channels, and commercial content, contributing to academic, artistic, and critical discourse.


Rivera leads workshops in creative direction, eco branding, and cross disciplinary methodology that center inclusivity, restorative practice, and community resilience. Her humanitarian efforts extend to visual storytelling, documentation, and field based aid with international refugee communities, ecological farms, and animal sanctuaries.

Rivera runs an interdisciplinary studio across creative technology, AI, and HCI design. She develops immersive experiences through real time data streams for installations, live events, and cultural programming, producing audio reactive visuals, projection mapped content, and live coded performances. She builds custom software prototypes and algorithmically driven application frameworks for research, wellness, and applied settings, integrating API pipelines, biosignal tracking, and user input architecture.


She creates original generative artworks from scholarly, scientific, and historical research for academic labs, heritage organizations, and design studios, translating archival material into multimedia works unique to each exhibition. Her output also covers visual identity, print, film production, environmental storytelling for stage sets, product campaigns, and architectural applications, alongside interactive web based projects informed by biometric or ambient sources.


Rivera consults on sustainable product and packaging development, pairing ethical sourcing with narrative strategy. She offers production, curatorial, and marketing support for gallery programs, social channels, and commercial content, contributing to academic, artistic, and critical discourse.


Rivera leads workshops in creative direction, eco branding, and cross disciplinary methodology that center inclusivity, restorative practice, and community resilience. Her humanitarian efforts extend to visual storytelling, documentation, and field based aid with international refugee communities, ecological farms, and animal sanctuaries.

Creative Technology

Creative Technology

Creative Technology

HCI Systems & Prototyping

HCI Systems & Prototyping

HCI Systems & Prototyping

GRAPHIC, INDUSTRIAL & Product DESIGN

GRAPHIC, INDUSTRIAL & Product DESIGN

GRAPHIC, INDUSTRIAL & Product DESIGN

Generative & Interactive Media

Generative & Interactive Media

Generative & Interactive Media

Web & Software Development

Web & Software Development

Web & Software Development

Real Time & Audio Reactive Visuals

Real Time & Audio Reactive Visuals

Real Time & Audio Reactive Visuals

Motion Design & 3D Animation

Motion Design & 3D Animation

Motion Design & 3D Animation

Art Direction & Filmmaking

Art Direction & Filmmaking

Art Direction & Filmmaking

AR/VR Environments

AR/VR Environments

AR/VR Environments

Design Research & Strategy

Design Research & Strategy

Design Research & Strategy

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT & BRAND DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT & BRAND DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT & BRAND DEVELOPMENT

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITIONS












JUNIREGEN IN FRIEDRICHSHAIN

Sincerely, 

June 2023 

Experimental Digital Arts

The Broad Art Center

Los Angeles, CA


ECHOES FROM THE OCEAN 

Ecological Arts + Justice 

June 2023 

Counterforce Lab

Los Angeles, CA


HUMAN PRINT

Nano Biotech Design 

April 2023 

ART | SCI Center,

California Nanosystems Institute

Los Angeles, CA 


EXPIRED NEW LIFE

Hey, can you pick me up? I’m scared.

I’m at the Intersection of

Art & Technology.

January 2023 

New Wight Gallery

Los Angeles, CA 


ELEMENTS + -

Allegories 

December 2022 

Experimental Digital Arts

The Broad Art Center

Los Angeles, CA