About

Ian O’Neill is a Kansas City-based new media artist whose work blends video, creative coding, and immersive installations to explore humanity in technology and the digital experience. His practice includes video art, generative visuals, interactive media, and live performances, often created collaboratively with time-based musicians and performers. Ian’s work has been featured in exhibitions and events such as the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation’s PRODOLab series, the Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival, and Digital Dreams, the first gallery for Digital Art in Kansas City.

Artist Statement

In my creative practice, I explore humanity in technology through video art, generative visuals, and immersive installations. My work often examines themes of expression, connection, and the common ground between our digital and physical realities. The core mission of my work is to make technology and media as human as possible, not through hyper-realism but through the beauty of our imperfections. Technology is a human creation and, as such, can never surpass the imperfections or limitations of its creators. I look to embrace this limitation and amplify it as a means to better connect to our present moment.

Through live performance, I aim to make video and coding as expressive as dance or jazz music. My video works often embrace signal feedback as a path to unique digital artifacts and abstractions. I aim to transform new media into a space for poetic expression; one that invites viewers to engage, interpret, and connect in ways that feel just as intimate and visceral as the human condition.