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Iain Ball — Pathology Loop #46
Iain Ball

Pathology Loop #46

2019

Pathology Loop #46 (2019–2021) is a 1/1 from Iain Ball’s Pathology Loop series. The work assembles a hyper-dense digital collage where cyberpunk corporate iconography (Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand clutching a Monster Energy can rebranded as NYXUS), nautilus shells, glitchy anime figures, and a news headline about the Pentagon’s secret UFO unit collapse into a single frame of terminal online residue. Pathology Loop functions as fossilised digital detritus — fragments of web imagery, cultural oversaturation, algorithmic decay, and identity collapse that remain after meaning and utility have eroded. These pieces reframe art itself as the byproduct of a hyperconnected civilisation in decline.

Medium
Digital Collage, Pathology Loop NFT (Ethereum)
Signed
Yes
Provenance
Created by Iain Ball as part of the Pathology Loop series (2019–2021). Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0xba517dbd7f82d00b0e1453785e20979f016cc370, Token ID: 46). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and Manifold.
Location
Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave

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Iain Ball, Pathology Loop #46, 2019

Pathology Loop #46 (2019–2021) is a 1/1 from Iain Ball’s Pathology Loop series. The work assembles a hyper-dense digital collage where cyberpunk corporate iconography (Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand clutching a Monster Energy can rebranded as NYXUS), nautilus shells, glitchy anime figures, and a news headline about the Pentagon’s secret UFO unit collapse into a single frame of terminal online residue. Pathology Loop functions as fossilised digital detritus — fragments of web imagery, cultural oversaturation, algorithmic decay, and identity collapse that remain after meaning and utility have eroded. These pieces reframe art itself as the byproduct of a hyperconnected civilisation in decline.

Medium
Digital Collage, Pathology Loop NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2019
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Online Culture, Cyberpunk, Cultural Entropy, UFO Conspiracy, Digital Collage, Digital Detritus, Post-Internet, Terminal Online, Hyper-Online, Internet Culture, DOOBIE WEB, Pathology Loop, D00B1E W3B, Algorithmic Decay, Identity Collapse

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