4591890161_031cd93e04_o.png (POST.CONSUMER.CULT) (1/10 edition)
2010
POST.CONSUMER.CULT (4591890161_031cd93e04_o.png) (2010) is a 1/10 edition digital collage from Iain Ball’s seminal POST.CONSUMER.CULT series. The work layers a glowing CD crackling with electric lightning, a mummified figure, and a serene Prabhupada statue overlaid with a Samsung security camera — collapsing consumer technology, pop mysticism, surveillance, and death culture into a single hyper-mediated image. Created at the height of the post-internet moment, this piece forms part of the larger transmedia content cloud that remixes cultural collapse, technological acceleration, and the commodification of spirituality. It continues to function as a living node in Ball’s practice — a snapshot of the moment when consumer detritus, occult imagery, and emerging surveillance systems began to fuse into new symbolic economies.
- Medium
- Digital Collage, POST.CONSUMER.CULT NFT (Ethereum)
- Edition
- 1 of 10
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball as part of the POST.CONSUMER.CULT series (2010). Minted as a 1/10 edition ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0x8aed2ed0731a57e96f059ef3c3bc7b08af303ac6, Token ID: 22) via Manifold. 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
Links
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Collectors with works by Iain Ball
Artists in conversation
Hito Steyerl
German · b. 1966
Steyerl's video essays and digital works collide consumer technology, surveillance capitalism, and spiritual mythology into hyper-mediated compositions that mirror Ball's layering of a Samsung camera over sacred iconography. Her practice interrogates how digital images circulate within systems of control and commodification, directly paralleling the techno-mystical and post-internet concerns of this piece.
Jon Rafman
Canadian · b. 1981
Rafman creates digital collages and video works that fuse consumer culture detritus, occult imagery, and internet vernacular into unsettling meditations on death, identity, and technological alienation. His practice shares Ball's method of collapsing pop mysticism with surveillance era imagery into a single overwhelmingly dense visual field.
Signe Pierce
American · b. 1990
Pierce's hyper-saturated digital works merge consumer aesthetics, spiritual iconography, and surveillance era anxiety into images that feel simultaneously sacred and commodified, closely echoing Ball's fusion of Prabhupada statuary with glowing technological objects. Her post-internet sensibility treats corporate and spiritual visual languages as equally hollow and equally potent symbolic systems.
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