Ian Haig

Worm Pornography (2024)

A hazmat-suited researcher in a bathroom/toilet, credited only as the slime narrator, talks about discovering a new kind of parasite that attempts to complete its life cycle within various contemporary media platforms. It quickly emerges that our narrator ...

Useless Eaters (2024)

Mutated hackable bodies, bodies that didn't quite work out and bodies that can no longer be classified as bodies. Drawing on the transhumanist musings of Yuval Noah Harari… Humans are now hackable animals. ...

AI Lobotomy (2023)

AI lobotomy refers to the hypothetical scenario where an AI system is deliberately limited or "lobotomized" in terms of its cognitive abilities in order to prevent it from developing consciousness or becoming a threat to human beings. This concept is often ...

Alien vs Predator (2022)

A black blob of viscous bodily material. An unknown organism of undifferentiated tissue. The dark web and dark tech as an internet based contagion and a new species of dark matter. ...

Burnout: The Truth about Work (2021)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (2020)

24 hr fake news of visceral simulation. Everything now exists in a heightened state of simulation, from TV news broadcasts to internal human bodies, nothing is real, everything is constructed. ...

Video Streaming Service (2020)

The Foaming Node (2018)

Ian Haig's The Foaming Node essays the discovery and emergence of new bodily organs in meticulous and captivating detail. We follow the last remaining observers, members of a cult of sorts, who have experienced both the transmissions of The Foaming Node, a ...

K-Rad Man (1992)

A mad scientist, a techno-nerd and a deadly computer virus form an ultra vivid hyper-reali­ty in this computer generated comic strip. ...

Rainbow Video (2023)

Inspired by Tom Roston's oral history 'I Lost it at the Video Store', this playful feature length documentary uses a deep local focus to show how VHS changed art forever. As the video shop era fades to black, Rainbow Video delves into the eclectic personal ...