
Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #2
2010
Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #2 (2025 reactivation) is a techno-occult assemblage that fuses the Technological Macabre with Future-Primitivism. A man fused with a smartphone strapped to his face — a contemporary cyborg appendage — stares alongside a large reptilian fossil-like form, while decaying corporate architecture (Sony) and obsolete consumer objects collapse into a single ritualistic image. This work reactivates early Old Earth Objects explorations, exposing the occult undercurrents of consumer technology: the devotional worship of brands, the prosthetic extension of the self into machines, and the slow entropic decay of late-capitalist artefacts.
- Medium
- Digital Collage, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Original concept by Iain Ball, late 2000s. Reactivated and minted 2025 as part of the Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0x1ad27c5339d95eb08ad16bfddbbbfef73f8fccba, Token ID: 2). 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 "Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #2", created in 2010
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Hans Bellmer
German · b. 1902

Bellmer constructed unsettling assemblages that fused body parts with mechanical and fetishistic objects into ritualistic imagery, directly paralleling Ball's cyborg figure and techno occult sensibility. Both artists treat the human form as a site of disturbing transformation and dark ceremonial meaning.

Jake Chapman
British · b. 1966

Chapman creates macabre sculptural and mixed media works that collapse consumer culture, corporate iconography, and body horror into dense apocalyptic tableaux, mirroring Ball's fusion of decaying Sony branding with fossil forms and obsolete technology. His work shares the same black humor and ritualistic disgust toward late capitalism.

Christoph Ruckhäberle
German · b. 1972

His densely layered works combine archaic figuration with modern detritus and primitive symbolic systems to evoke a collapsed timeline between past and future, closely echoing Ball's Future Primitivism and the merging of fossil imagery with contemporary consumer objects. Both artists treat cultural artifacts as relics of a strange ritual archaeology.
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