p92u3 (Symptoms ♨)
2009
p92u3 (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 single charged image-objects. In this piece, an organic, flower-like form emerges within a structured black frame against a patterned digital background. 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: 4). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Etherscan and OpenSea.
- Location
- Blockchain/Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "p92u3 (Symptoms ♨)", created in 2009
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Artists in conversation
Harm van den Dorpel
Dutch · b. 1981
Van den Dorpel pioneered post-internet art that merges digital and physical vocabularies, collapsing online imagery into structured compositions that interrogate the boundaries between biological and technological systems, closely mirroring Ball's approach in this piece.
Rafaël Rozendaal
Dutch-Brazilian · b. 1980
Rozendaal creates digital works that transform internet aesthetics into charged visual objects, blending organic forms with structured digital patterning in ways that parallel Ball's fusion of flower-like natural forms within technological frameworks.
Cory Arcangel
American · b. 1978
Arcangel's practice embodies early post-internet sensibilities by assembling online and offline content into single cohesive image-objects, exploring the collision of digital systems with material culture in a manner directly comparable to Ball's Symptoms series.
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