Inspired by pre-Hispanic artifacts from Mesoamerica and South America, these 3D sculptures do not aim for archaeological accuracy; they are figures processed using AI and applications to reimagine their original forms and add iridescent colors that heighten their strangeness.
In these works, stone is replaced by polygons, hand carving by algorithms, and the ritual object by its digital manifestation. And although their materiality is radically different, something persists in them— they retain echoes of ancient symbolic systems.
Through this operation of appropriation, mutation, and displacement of medium, Marto proposes technology not only as a tool, but as a bridge between the ancestral and the present, questioning: What remains when matter disappears? What kind of spirituality can emerge from a synthetic image?
This way of understanding technology—not only as a tool for innovation but also as a territory of memory—connects the project to practices of remediation, where images from the past reappear and are reconfigured in a living archive.
Following this logic, Ancestral Future, becomes a gesture of spectral invocation that prompts reflection on the metamorphosis of the medium and its symbolic codes.
Marto is an experimental new media artist, audiovisual director, and musician, originally from Jujuy and based in Tucumán, Argentina. His work spans 3D modeling, film, and sound experimentation. His practice is rooted in experimentation, viewing error as an opportunity to explore the unexpected. His process is guided by the sensations that emerge during the creative act, where each decision responds more to intuition than to a pre-established structure. His visual language draws on glitch art, the abstract, and the ancestral, creating tension between the technological, the organic, and the archaeological. He works with real-time visuals and generative systems, integrating tools such as Blender and TouchDesigner in workflows that combine technical precision, intuition, and creative drift.
