About Me

About My Art

Ian Dunn is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the place where technology and nature cease to be opposites. Drawing from a lifelong passion for electronics, he creates works that imagine a future in which humanity, machines, and artificial intelligence have evolved into a single interconnected ecosystem.

Whether working with circuit boards, hardwoods, or other electronic components, each piece blurs the boundary between the organic and the engineered. Copper traces echo the branching patterns of leaves. Electronic components become skylines, forests, and microscopic landscapes. Trees are illuminated by circuitry, while discarded technology is transformed into objects of contemplation rather than consumption.

Many of the circuit boards featured in his work are rescued from the electronic waste stream, preserving fragments of technological history while giving them a second life. Rather than seeing obsolete electronics as disposable, Dunn reveals the unexpected beauty hidden within the geometry, materials, and craftsmanship of the machines that have quietly shaped modern civilization.

Underlying every piece is an ongoing narrative: a vision of the post-singularity world. Instead of portraying artificial intelligence as humanity’s replacement, Dunn imagines a future in which biology and technology have merged into something entirely new. His work asks what beauty might emerge when silicon and wood, copper and leaves, logic and growth are no longer separate ideas, but expressions of the same living system.

Through sculpture, photography, and illuminated mixed-media works, Ian Dunn invites viewers to reconsider both the natural world and the technology that surrounds them—not as opposing forces, but as partners in the next stage of evolution.

I am a full time power grid operator by night, father, husband, hardware hacker and artist by day. I live in Tijeras, New Mexico. I am self taught in power grid operations and electronics. I’ve been tinkering with electronics since childhood. With the help of Kickstarter, I turned my electronics hobby into a business, Bolt Industries in 2019. I began making circuit board art during the pandemic and never stopped.