The Artbox is comprised of 18 modular works enclosed in small Plexiglas boxes of different colors. This work emerged with the intention of capturing the zeitgeist or spirit of the times, driving the creation of a portable and playable museum based in the most relevant cultural icons of the year 2000. All the physical elements were obtained or manufactured in New York City.

Every piece involves a semantic game between the significant and its meaning; between the object and its description, placed on the top of each translucent box. All the works included in the ArtBox are interactive, operating as installations, sculptures, or performances, showing the complexities of a new era dominated by technology.

The production of these works was informed by technology (the release of Windows 2000); economy (the crash of the stock market); religion (the rise of Kabbalah in pop culture): film (the premier of the new Star Wars movie); national security (the FBI 'most wanted fugitives list, which included Osama Bin Laden); computer code and health (the parallelism between organic viruses and their cure through technology); and so on. In regard to this last subject, there is a box displaying a 3D render of the HIV. When the box is opened, a large string of paper reveals the source code of a computer virus known as HIV-a variant of the Murphy virus-created in the early 1990s. An extended digital work is also provided with the sculptural work.

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