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
d/wb01 → the wet box
Edition: 1/1
Price: 0.8 eth
Single-channel digital video,
10:10 min, 4K, color, sound, 16:9,
Sound collaboration: Marcos Parajua (artist and researcher)
Madrid, Spain. 2025
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.
As a recursive linguistic exploration of objects in the digital context, the wet box operates as a practical essay on the cybernetic performativity of artificial intelligence and its capacity to constitute ecologies and economies — corporealities, territories, value, and morality — by acting on cognition and space. In this sense, language and its models emerge as technologies that escape the object. Built from noise and low quality, the work leans toward cybernetic abstraction and non-representationality, leveraging AI to manipulate image, text, and sound, appealing to the viewer while remaining firmly in the realm of abstraction
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