Maxine Annel· Research
La Catrina Monarca
Mobile brain-body imaging during a multimodal art performance presented in Houston and at UCSF
La Catrina Monarca is a multimodal art performance by environmental artist Geraldina Interiano Wise, combining choreography, wearable abstract sculpture, and original classical music (Las Campanas). The piece draws on two symbols of Mexican culture, La Catrina and the Monarch butterfly, to represent metamorphosis, migration, and the cycle of life and death, and calls attention to Houston’s role as a Monarch migration waystation. It premiered at the Zoom Art Gala in Paris.
Mobile Brain-Body Imaging
The performance was recorded using MoBI (Mobile Brain/Body Imaging) and paired with AI-driven visualizations. This work was carried out under the NSF BRAIN Center (Award #2137255) and the AccelNet Movement, Music and Brain Health program (Award #2412731).
Presentations
- Houston — October 29, 2025, at the Jorge Pardo Foley, University of Houston
- AccelNet Implementation Phase 1 Conference, UCSF — November 10, 2025, at the Sandler Auditorium, University of California San Francisco, as part of the Movement, Music and Brain Health AccelNet program
Partner Institutions
- University of Houston, Texas
- University of California, San Francisco