Luis MercadoInterview
Professor, artist
Adapted from Luis Mercado's interview on Uses This, published 19 August 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My main work machine is a maxed out HP OMEN 15.
Scattered around the house there are many iPads and Amazon's Kindles.
I have an assortment of cheap cassette players -those unbranded ones that convert to MP3 if needed, tapes and a Tascam DR-05X audio recorder.
Because of that I traded all my bulky gear for a humble, small yet impressive Fujifilm XF10.
Browser
I refuse to use Chrome as it's becoming the default choice for most, sometimes not for the right reasons, and Google is indeed guilty of some dubious stuff.
Coding & Development
The latest version of the Processing IDE for tinkering and producing media works.
I complement it with Sublime Text, a true Swiss army knife of a text editor.
Design
The full Adobe CC Suite courtesy of my university.
Media
For audio work I use SuperCollider, basically a platform for programming music.
Other
However, since I refuse to buy an Apple computer just to run macOS, Windows will do.