Ian Margo (b. 2000, Spain) is an artist, researcher, graphic designer and curator. He focuses his production on the intersection between art production and research on philosophy of language and digital media. Ian works with a wide range of media, (video, software, interface, essay, generative AI, 3D, blockchain, datamoshing, performance, interactive installation, performance, among others). He is co-founder of 邊界_RG & Gaara, he has published in DIFFRACTIONS collective and the Institute of Network Cultures.

Dealing with the relationship between technology and language, performativity and cognition, and working through contemporary ecologies and digital culture, Ian’s works and research focuses in language and its relation with material and/or political processes, value production, tokenization processes and objectification, immersed in a context of visual break and intrinsic hyperconnectivity.

He has been part of various releases on-chain, the latest being its genesis release on ETH with fakewhale with his d/wb project. He has been interviewed by Fakewhale, Diffractions collective and Rendah Magazine.

He has also participated in various international festivals & screenings, such as LAGRIMA pres. 邊界_RG + Oxhy, Replika Teatro, Madrid, Spain, 2025, OpenSecret New York 2025, Internet Core, Hyper Congress, in Hangar.org with the Institute of Network Cultures, Barcelona, Spain, 2025, PrimeIntellect Decentralized AI Day San Francisco 2025, Reptiliens Management Quebec 2025, OpenSecret, Valencia 2024, Technocene Digital Metallisches Fest Tempelhof Berlin 2024, Re-Fest 2024, Documentamadrid Madrid 2024, Intersección Festival Coruña 2024.

He has also taken part in recent international exhibitions, such as Interact Symposium, during Grey Area festival, San Francisco, California, 2025, ADAF Athens, Greece 2025, RARE Accompart’s Gallery on Objkt 2025, ‘Minoritarians’ Accompart’s Exhibition on Objkt 2025, "Mom, Postinternet is Not a Phase ;(" at OkaySpace Athens, Greece 2025, the 2nd International Congress "Art and Design Agitated by AI" in UCM 2024, 7780__x at ChaizStudio Madrid 2024. He was also a finalist in Hyperhouse 2025.

entries

publication artwork interview video
Ian Margo, Fakewhale Interview, d/wb project

(...) Over the past year, my research has led me to delve into various theories of language, stemming from an initial interest in technology and digital as well as cybernetic media. My proposal is, above all, a pursuit of honesty toward the medium: an effort to recognize its limits while also exploring those limits as material for the development of artistic discourse.

My work does not operate on separate layers—research, design, and production are not distinct stages but rather interconnected dimensions. Each contributes material from which the work is built. These materials are both technical and conceptual—a distinction that is increasingly difficult to maintain, since in both cases a similar act of activation is required...(more)

artwork video
fieldwareIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 11:00min...(more) publication artwork video
Third Extension, a brief essay
on technology and language
Ian Margo
(...) “third extension” emerges as an aesthetic exercise of abstraction and artificialization of the face through these recursive dynamics of encoding and recoding the sign. In this way, it proposes the staging, through images and text boxes, of a multidimensional relational environment that constructs dynamics of resignification and production of faciality. This project explores the aesthetics of the opposition between environments that are not given but are part of an ongoing construction by accumulation. Abstraction emerges here as...(more)

artwork video
the wet boxIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 10:10min...(more)

artwork video
my beloved new face
Ian Margo, 2024, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 06:00min...(more)

artwork video
GATE-1
Ian Margo, 2024, digital video, multi-channel, color, sound 4:3, HD, 05:00min...(more)

Lexical Report of the Linguistic Visualization Test Program Based on Relational Meaning and Etymological Coordinates
Ian Margo publication artwork software(...) wall, it, with animal, inhuman, appear, cavernous, word, close-up, surface, black, eye, not, is, an, reflect, code, trait, overcoded, produced, dimension, percept, proper, story, flesh, volume, dream, model, signifier, construct, before, distinction, system, general, pain, no, eyes, even, necessary, new, polyvocal, structure, drift, holes, horror, light, or, and, sometimes, process, trace, all, face, the, of, should, are, coded, holey, order, also, crystalline, what, just, thing, at, circumstances, begin, has, error, head, facialized, cannot, said, operation, hole, unconscious, function, without, combination, dance, already, never, remains, white, but, signify...(more)

S02 Format Statement & Technical Logic For A Body That Remembers
Format s02 emerges centered on these practices, seeking to reconceptualize and reconcile the operative possibilities—both aesthetic and theoretical—within the conditions of digital culture, situating its inquiry at the limit, the edge, the frame, the frontier