Ian Margo

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Ian Margo (b. 2000, Spain) focuses his production on the intersection between art and technology, working through video, essay, generative AI, 3D, blockchain, web3, datamoshing, performance, interactive installation, 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, Ian’s works focuses in cybernetics and its relation with material and/or political processes, immersed in a context of visual break and intrinsic hyperconnectivity.

He has participated in various international festivals & screenings, such as 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 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

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)