d/wb project
d/wb is a technolinguistic project that seeks to explore value and meaning production using abstraction models and digital media...find more Ian Margo email X instagram
The artworks:
the wet box third extension fieldware
d/wb project
d/wb is a technolinguistic project that seeks to explore value and meaning production using abstraction models and digital media...find more Ian Margo email X instagram
The artworks:
the wet box third extension fieldware
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d/wb
“The d/wb (desert/wet box) project, developed over a year across Madrid, London, and San Farcisco, CA, constitutes a sustained inquiry into the entangled domains of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, semiotics, and technological mediation. Composed of three interrelated works — the wet box, third extension, and fieldware —, it functions as an experimental probe into the processes by which signs are produced, abstracted, and ultimately activated as vectors of value.”
the wet box
“the wet box is recursion that fails: the object — solid, geometric — cannot be defined, and the body conforms to exteriorities, wrapped, faces wrapped. It is a cyberspace cut like a spiral, an incomplete turn, a fracture of language that opens onto possibility. As the initiating articulation of the cycle, the work stages technology as part of feedback systems that constitute cognition — the mapping of environment, the shape of value, the shape of morality. It reconstructs the pointing finger, the speaking gesture, the hole that looks. The piece grapples with the virtuality of the body that abstracts itself, the sign incapable of defining itself, the language that is performed, the fragments of an abstract machine.”
third extension
“third extension emerges as an aesthetic exercise in abstraction and the artificialization of the face through recursive dynamics of encoding and recoding the sign. The work stages, through a composite of images and text boxes, a multidimensional relational environment where processes of resignification and the production of faciality unfold. Environments are presented not as pre-given but as accumulative constructions, sites where oppositional dynamics are constantly being reconfigured.”
fieldware
“fieldware is conceived as a linguistic exploration of the object and its potential constitution through sign and mediation. Addressing both openness and the complex-hole, the work develops experimental pathways around abstraction as the production of meaning. Through the logic of “what comes off,” fieldware emerges as redundancy, a broken rhythmic play, a collapse of vanishing lines. It stages field and ware, ground and ground, operating on the sign as a gesture extended across a flat line until this continuity is abruptly interrupted by the brutal immediacy of form.”
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