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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Steyerl's video installations interrogate global capitalism, corporate power, and technology through a speculative and critical lens, closely paralleling Ball's transmutation of electronics branding into occult ritual and crisis narrative.

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Wolfson produces unsettling video and multimedia works that weaponize consumer aesthetics and corporate visual language to generate psychologically destabilizing experiences, sharing Ball's approach of mutating familiar commercial iconography into something darkly transformative.
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