Ian Margo

Instagram: @3_fieldware

Website: https://ianmargo.com/

Bio: Ian Margo is a digital artist and researcher focused on the intersection between language, technology and economy. Working with a wide range of media such as video, software, interface design, experimental essay, generative AI, 3D, blockchain, datamoshing, performance and interactive installations, his practice examines language and its entanglement with material and political processes, with a particular focus on value production, tokenisation and objectification, understanding language and markets as operative media within contexts of visual rupture and intrinsic hyperconnectivity. His practice has been presented through exhibitions, screenings, performances and academic contexts across Europe, Asia and the United States, including institutions, festivals and platforms such as CEDAR (Shanghai), Grey Area Festival (San Francisco), ADAF (Athens Digital Arts Festival), Hangar (Barcelona), Matadero Madrid and NYU Shanghai. He is co-founder of 邊界_RG, an artist-based group focused on machine learning, cognition, memory and interface design. As a researcher, he has published in DIFFRACTIONS and the Institute of Network Cultures. He is currently part of the SYBIL ARC2 residency program in Berlin. Ian recently presented his Ethereum genesis release, d/wb (desert/wet box) in collaboration with Fakewhale. Composed of three interrelated works—wet box, third extension and fieldware—the project explores abstraction as an operative force within artificial intelligence, semiotics and contemporary economies, examining how signs are produced and activated as vectors of value.