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Iain Ball

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Iain Ball

PHILIPS 2013 [six-channel video installation 01: Power Squid Surge Protector]

2010

PHILIPS 2013 [six-channel video installation 01: Power Squid Surge Protector] (2010) is a 1/1 NFT from Iain Ball’s canonical transmedia project PHILIPS 2013. The work stages a speculative corporate metamorphosis in which the global electronics brand Philips mutates through crisis, apocalypse, and renewal — consumer products and medical technologies become ritual objects, marketing strategies drift into occult symbolism, and the brand itself is recast as a vehicle for esoteric transformation. This piece enacts a hyperstitional narrative of technocapitalism confronting its own death drive, folding Mayan prophecy, financial collapse, cybernetic control and medieval allegory into a framework where global consumer culture passes through its endgame toward a “Great Renewal.”

Medium
Video NFT (Ethereum)
Signed
Yes
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
Created by Iain Ball as part of the PHILIPS 2013 transmedia project, 2010–2014. Minted as 1/1 ERC-721 Video NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0xfe331ac762f2f3d82d13d754e8caede3b903f13d, Token ID: 1). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
Location
Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave

Notes

This piece might be titled "PHILIPS 2013 [six-channel video installation 01: Power Squid Surge Protector]", created in 2010

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Iain Ball, PHILIPS 2013 [six-channel video installation 01: Power Squid Surge Protector], 2010

PHILIPS 2013 [six-channel video installation 01: Power Squid Surge Protector] (2010) is a 1/1 NFT from Iain Ball’s canonical transmedia project PHILIPS 2013. The work stages a speculative corporate metamorphosis in which the global electronics brand Philips mutates through crisis, apocalypse, and renewal — consumer products and medical technologies become ritual objects, marketing strategies drift into occult symbolism, and the brand itself is recast as a vehicle for esoteric transformation. This piece enacts a hyperstitional narrative of technocapitalism confronting its own death drive, folding Mayan prophecy, financial collapse, cybernetic control and medieval allegory into a framework where global consumer culture passes through its endgame toward a “Great Renewal.”

Medium
Video NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2010
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic, Corporate Critique, Techno-Occult, NFT, Hyperstitional Art, Conceptual Art, Technocapitalism, Technocapitalism Critique, Occult Symbolism, Hyperstitional Narrative, Eschatological Themes, Apocalyptic Prophecy, Ceremonial Performance, Video, Six-Channel Video Installation, Digital Art, Transmedia Project

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