Biography

Carlos Luna James is a Mexican multimedia installation artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores the convergence of ancestral knowledge systems and emerging technologies. Born in Ciudad Juárez, a culturally complex border city between Mexico and the United States, his practice is shaped by themes of hybridity, migration, and the evolving dialogue between myth, memory, and technological futures.

He studied Design at the Jesuit University ITESO in Guadalajara, where he developed a deep appreciation for Mexico’s cultural heritage—its folklore, craftsmanship, and vibrant visual traditions—which continue to inform the symbolic language of his work.

In 2007 he relocated to Los Angeles, where he spent over a decade in the entertainment industry as a Digital Art Director at FOX Entertainment, developing large-scale visual storytelling across film, television, and digital media.

Working under the artistic identity MGOGLKTKO, Luna James creates immersive installations that combine sculpture, moving image, real-time simulation engines, artificial intelligence, and spatial environments. His work explores how mythologies and cosmologies can evolve within technologically mediated worlds.

His ongoing project K’in expands this investigation through a non-linear participatory art experience that blends physical and digital artifacts into what he describes as a speculative archaeology of the future—a framework where ancestral narratives are not preserved as static heritage, but activated as living systems capable of shaping new cultural imaginaries.