
30qeipqejpiqf (Symptoms ♨)
2009
30qeipqejpiqf (Symptoms ♨) is a 1/1 from Iain Ball’s pivotal early post-internet series. Created in 2009, the series collapses online and offline content into charged image-objects. Here a strange, organic growth emerging from repurposed materials and digital debris. The Symptoms series marks Ball’s emerging exploration of techno-materialism, the anthropocene, and the blurring boundaries between biological forms and technological systems. Preserved here as an authenticated on-chain asset, it continues to function as a key node in the artist’s transmedia practice — a living fragment of the moment when digital and physical realities first began to fuse.
- Medium
- Digital Collage / Object Assemblage, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball, 2009, as part of the Symptoms ♨ series. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum in the Symptoms ♨ contract (contract: 0x26ff6586c36b8496f4a017f2d990aba3056a9a72, Token ID: 15). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and OpenSea.
- Location
- Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "30qeipqejpiqf (Symptoms ♨)", created in 2009
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