CHamoru
Designer
Transsexual
Serial collaborator
CHamoru
Designer
Transsexual
Serial collaborator
Designer
Transsexual
Serial collaborator
Tools
Hands/Feet/Eyes/Ears
Modular Synthesizers
Blasser Touch Circuits
Hands/Feet/Eyes/Ears
Modular Synthesizers
Blasser Touch Circuits
Bio
Crystal Peñalosa is an electronic musician and interdisciplinary designer based in New York. Her work focuses on self-compassion practices while engaging with authenticity and personal safety.
She has released music through Topos Press, painting a future of self-actualization and independence for the CHamoru people, as well as producing self-released music. Recently, she performed at the 52nd Annual Moers Festival in Germany. In 2021, she was an Artist in Residence at Roulette Intermedia, where she developed multimedia performances about her CHamoru ancestry and her relationship to her body. She has performed collaboratively and presented solo works at The New School, MoMA PS1, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and performed internationally at the Moers Festival, the Golden Pudel, and Spektrum.
Crystal currently works as a Product Designer with the New Jersey Office of Innovation, whose mission is to improve the lives of New Jerseyans by solving public problems differently. They also teach Physical Computing at the School of Visual Art’s Interaction Design graduate program. She also volunteers with Voluminous Arts, a transgender liberation based project based in Queens, New York.
Crystal Peñalosa is an electronic musician and interdisciplinary designer based in New York. Her work focuses on self-compassion practices while engaging with authenticity and personal safety.
She has released music through Topos Press, painting a future of self-actualization and independence for the CHamoru people, as well as producing self-released music. Recently, she performed at the 52nd Annual Moers Festival in Germany. In 2021, she was an Artist in Residence at Roulette Intermedia, where she developed multimedia performances about her CHamoru ancestry and her relationship to her body. She has performed collaboratively and presented solo works at The New School, MoMA PS1, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and performed internationally at the Moers Festival, the Golden Pudel, and Spektrum.
Crystal currently works as a Product Designer with the New Jersey Office of Innovation, whose mission is to improve the lives of New Jerseyans by solving public problems differently. They also teach Physical Computing at the School of Visual Art’s Interaction Design graduate program. She also volunteers with Voluminous Arts, a transgender liberation based project based in Queens, New York.