publications — bianjie research group

(...) 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)

Ruins without nostalgiaMarcos Parajua

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(...) What remains after an event? Does language prevail over an image or a sound in presenting “that which remains”? Edmund Burke invokes Milton: “(Over) many a dark and dreary (valley) They (passed), and many a region dolorous; (Over) many a frozen, many a fiery Alp; Rocks, caves, lakes, dens, bogs, fens, and shades of Death”. Burke contends: “This idea or this affection caused by a word (Death), which nothing but a word could annex to the others…”.1 In this saying, the ways of romantic visual arts are too articulate to lend proper care to indeterminacy. Retrospectively we might argue that Burke contemplated abstraction exclusively as “thought” realised in language but I´d rather follow a different inquiry. Burke also conceives descriptive language an insufficient correlate of the object described; this, he observes, is not a problem of clarity but intensity. To bridge the difference...(more)

Vertigo²Alexandre Montserrat

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(...) Historical representation's progressive unmooring from positivist certitude, its recognition as a discursively and mythically shaped domain, discovers a potent contemporary inflection with Large Language Models. Such systems appear, offering less passive archival functions or neutral narrative conduits, more formidable ‘writing machines’ actively operationalising the construction of historical understanding. An LLM, in this capacity, presents an unprecedented historiographical agent. It moves beyond recording or interpreting the past to effectively generate textual instantiations, guided by an intrinsic, data-derived logic...(more)

Third Extension, a brief essay
on technology and language
Ian Margo

publication artwork video

(...) “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)

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)

After Notre Dame / burning_church / techno-linguistic program for the Artic Circle
Arash Farhadi

publication theory-fiction

(...) When the ocean retreats, an extensive desert emerges / the museum lies across it, 9 days on foot, 1 more day for the cult. We studied the cathedral's blueprints hoping to find signs of the assassination / my beloved new face is built upon abstract machines. It narrates the face being performed, the burning territory / in a dream, the cathedral was burning. The verticality of the structure / the verticality of the fire / manifested the mediocrity of the fall, its numbness. We imagined forests surrounding the ruins of what we had annihilated / burning_church rises from my beloved new face or, rather, detaches from it, taking the form of a museum in a desert; you will reach this -final- place, and, once arrived, there will be nothing left to do / Arabesque Dune / the face in burning_church emerges around the mask - "worship of the body" / body in flames / the flute inside Saddam’s bunker, and the air runs out...(more)

Touch Down, Entropocene

Shāng Wén Shān

publication theory-fiction

(...) The overarching theme is admitting that value alignment inherently involve expansions in how we currently conceptualise ethics and value formation itself. Social choice framings can help, but will likely need to be interwoven with perspectives pushing the constraints of anthropic boundaries. Computation enabled radical overhauls of various epistemologies over time. Likewise, advanced value learners may ultimately produce ethical reasoners and value structures that transcend and reshape our current anthropic...(more)

artworkfieldwareIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 11:00min...(more)