AI & Machine Media

Works where the newsroom, the poem, and the archive are generated — machine media under human editorial direction, turned critically on the machine age itself: surveillance, prediction, memory, and the defense of human cognition. The machines produce; a person decides what it means.

Since 2022

2022 — present · weekly ai-intelligence publication

AI News Social

A weekly bilingual publication that screens thousands of AI articles through communication-theory lenses and generates briefings, podcasts and visualizations — a "living textbook" of the AI moment, rebuilt every week and re-architected three times as the tools themselves changed. Edited and directed by Bonilla.

weekly·en + es·3 architectures·edition 84 as of july 2026

Sacramento State · Center for Race, Immigration & Social Justice.

2023 · ai songbook & open educational resource

Scholarly Stanzas A Communication Studies Songbook

The theories of a whole discipline — rendered as AI poetry, images and songs, each theory a page with lyrics, visuals and research links; an open educational resource that also went to print. Rodolfo Mata's prologue reads it as a possible fourth generation of electronic literature.

586 theories·~7,050 images·~90 programs·2 printed volumes

Included in Antología Lit(e)Lat, Vol. 2 · prologue by Rodolfo Mata · U.S. Copyright registered.

2023 — present · public teaching tools

Custom GPTs for AI Literacy

A suite of public custom GPTs built to teach how persuasion, generalization and critical thinking work — Targeted Persuasion, Critical Thinking Analyzer, Generalizations Analyzer — and, in Spanish, the science fables of Fábulas con Ciencia.

15+ public gpts·en & es

2024 — 2025 · daily memorial & data journalism

Requiem Diurnus

A daily memorial. An automated system searched news reports of femicide across some twenty-five countries and transformed each verified report into image-text works — multilingual poems and symbolic images, released under Creative Commons. Its images are symbolic compositions, never portraits of victims. The machine kept the record no one else was keeping, day after day; the project holds it as memory, not spectacle.

~25 countries·~100 cases a day·11,000+ images and poems in its first six months·creative commons

A peer-reviewed study in Texto Digital (2026) · analyzed by Claudia Kozak (2024) · prologue by Brenda Romero · central work of the Sacramento State Library exhibition Femicides: Shattering the Silence of Violence Against Women.

2025 · generative-ai short film

The Human Futures Market

An eighteen-minute film — made, in its own description, entirely with generative AI — in which seven corporate AI traders price a woman's life from birth to death, and their predictions begin to shape the life they price. The film is also its dataset: valuations, search histories and probabilities are part of the argument. The traders need no malice — only to measure, predict, and profit from being right.

~18 minutes·7 ai traders·one life, birth to death

Among the winners, Best AI Short Film — Red Rocks AI Film Festival, 2025.

2023 — 2025 · a framework for higher education

Principles for Cognitive & Pedagogical Sovereignty

The domain's closing argument in written form — a bilingual framework for AI in higher education, built on two complementary perspectives, cognitive and pedagogical: the privacy of thought, the agency of the learner, and the defense of academic labor. Authored as a position, offered as a framework.

bilingual·two perspectives: cognitive & pedagogical

The roots run back to the first computational tool — AMLO Discourse (2019), which searched a president's every spoken word to the exact video moment. The rest of the record — the AI publications, appointments and talks — lives on the timeline. See it all on the timeline →