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fieldware

Ian Margo

2025, digital video,
color, sound 16:9 4K,
11:00min
artwork LLMs new media interface
language cybernetics video abstraction economy

fieldware is a linguistic exploration of the object and its potential constitution through sign and mediation. Addressing openness and the complex-hole, this project generates experimental avenues around abstraction as the production of meaning. Through ‘what comes off’, ‘fieldware’ emerges as a redundancy, a broken rhythmic play, a collapse of vanishing lines, presenting field and ware, ground and ground, thus working the sign as a gesture that stretches over a flat line until it is interrupted by the brutal form of the immediate.

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Text Box: Eschatology of the Digital Visage
Algorithmic Flesh and Confessional
Aesthetics in the Work of Ian Margo
Giorgi Vachnadze

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(...) In this sense, its failure is generative. To fail to be computable is to refuse the enclosure of meaning. Margo’s work is, once again, not Turing-Computable, it’s Deleuze-Computable, that is to say; demonically machinic. To become unbaptized data is to remain in the domain of the Real. Like the Eucharist consumed without transubstantiation, the Wet Box leaves a pure residue, an aftertaste of what should have become body, and didn’t; it became flesh. The interface compounds the syntax error in stutters. The glitch is a processual breaking in execution and expectation. We expected sense. We were given endless remainder – lack...(more)

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Ian Margo

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fieldware