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Iain Ball

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Iain Ball

Iconoplasm EVOLVED 1

2008

Iconoplasm EVOLVED 1 (2008 / 2026) is a 1/1 AI-augmented video from Iain Ball’s foundational Iconoplasm series. The work reinterprets early physical substance-based assemblages and liminal interventions through contemporary AI image-to-video models, transforming documentation of a visceral, alchemical installation — a pink octopus form erupting from a glass cylinder amid cascading coloured liquids — into a living, dripping, cybernetic ritual. Originally enacted in university spaces and non-places across southern England (and later Australia), Iconoplasm treats art as emergent systems of objects, substances, and processes. This evolved iteration extends the series’ cybernetic logic, demonstrating how human craft is increasingly cyborgianised — augmented and re-patterned by AI’s generative agency — while remaining rooted in Ball’s long-term exploration of materiality, emergence, and the blurring boundaries between physical intervention and computational realms.

Medium
AI Image-to-Video, Digital Video NFT (Ethereum)
Signed
Yes
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
Created by Iain Ball as part of the Iconoplasm system (2008), with this AI video evolution completed in 2026. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0xaaa96b2b90123193445640a8daf127675b6d8f9d, Token ID: 1). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and Manifold.

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Iain Ball, Iconoplasm EVOLVED 1, 2008

Iconoplasm EVOLVED 1 (2008 / 2026) is a 1/1 AI-augmented video from Iain Ball’s foundational Iconoplasm series. The work reinterprets early physical substance-based assemblages and liminal interventions through contemporary AI image-to-video models, transforming documentation of a visceral, alchemical installation — a pink octopus form erupting from a glass cylinder amid cascading coloured liquids — into a living, dripping, cybernetic ritual. Originally enacted in university spaces and non-places across southern England (and later Australia), Iconoplasm treats art as emergent systems of objects, substances, and processes. This evolved iteration extends the series’ cybernetic logic, demonstrating how human craft is increasingly cyborgianised — augmented and re-patterned by AI’s generative agency — while remaining rooted in Ball’s long-term exploration of materiality, emergence, and the blurring boundaries between physical intervention and computational realms.

Medium
AI Image-to-Video, Digital Video NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2008
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Post Human Layering, Liminal Space, Experimental Art, Abject Art, Trans-spatiotemporal Art, Public Inervention, Transmedia, Process Art, Raw And Visceral, Found Object Assemblage, Substance Art, Trans-spatiotemporal Bio-information Fusions Systems, Video, Cybernetic Art, Post-physical Art, Al Argumentation, Systems Art, Transmedia Project

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