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/wb02 → third extension
Edition: 1/1
Price: 0.8 eth
Single-channel digital video (expandable to three-channel installation),
08:42 min, 4K, color, sound, 16:9
London, UK. 2025
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.
Abstraction arises at the intersection of these oppositions, functioning simultaneously as sign production and knowledge production, and acting as a mediating third that opens new relational pathways. Within the frameworks of AI and cybernetics, the piece enacts language as an operative technology across multiple environments, activating its dual capacity for artificialization and abstraction in the production of objectivity. In this light, medium and technology are configured as a recursive axis of vanishing that destabilizes and recodes the potential limits of each opposition. Language itself operates here as an abstract machine: producing signs, recoding value, and reconfiguring both moral and representational orders.
Presented within Ian Margo’s lectures for the Institute of Network Cultures at Hangar.org, Barcelona (Spring 2025)
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