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Iain Ball — Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20
Iain Ball

Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20

2009

Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20 (2025 reactivation) is a digital collage of reactivated content from Iain Ball’s 2009-2020 era transmedia system “Old Earth Objects.” A Philips Sensual Massager — a late-2000s consumer sex toy — is elevated as a sacred relic or fetish object, set against figures locked in physical interaction with computer hardware. This work collapses sexual commodity, corporate design, and ritualistic reverence into a single potent image. It reactivates the Old Earth Objects project’s core investigation into Techno-Occultism, Technological Macabre, and Future-Primitivism — exposing the hidden erotic, devotional, and occult energies embedded within everyday high-tech products.

Medium
Digital Collage / Documentation Relic, 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: 20). 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 #20", created in 2009

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Iain Ball, Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20, 2009

Old Earth: Reactivation Sequence #20 (2025 reactivation) is a digital collage of reactivated content from Iain Ball’s 2009-2020 era transmedia system “Old Earth Objects.” A Philips Sensual Massager — a late-2000s consumer sex toy — is elevated as a sacred relic or fetish object, set against figures locked in physical interaction with computer hardware. This work collapses sexual commodity, corporate design, and ritualistic reverence into a single potent image. It reactivates the Old Earth Objects project’s core investigation into Techno-Occultism, Technological Macabre, and Future-Primitivism — exposing the hidden erotic, devotional, and occult energies embedded within everyday high-tech products.

Medium
Digital Collage / Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2009
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Surrealism, Consumer Culture, Series, Dark, Living Artist, Ritual, Conceptual, NFT, Eroticism, Muted, Emerging, Identity, Collage, Technology, Fetish, Transmedia, Unique, Digital Art, Still Life, Occult, Found Objects, Contemporary

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