
Pathology Loop #46
2019
Pathology Loop #46 (2019–2021) is a 1/1 from Iain Ball’s Pathology Loop series. The work assembles a hyper-dense digital collage where cyberpunk corporate iconography (Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand clutching a Monster Energy can rebranded as NYXUS), nautilus shells, glitchy anime figures, and a news headline about the Pentagon’s secret UFO unit collapse into a single frame of terminal online residue. Pathology Loop functions as fossilised digital detritus — fragments of web imagery, cultural oversaturation, algorithmic decay, and identity collapse that remain after meaning and utility have eroded. These pieces reframe art itself as the byproduct of a hyperconnected civilisation in decline.
- Medium
- Digital Collage, Pathology Loop NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball as part of the Pathology Loop series (2019–2021). Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0xba517dbd7f82d00b0e1453785e20979f016cc370, Token ID: 46). 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
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Tabor Robak
American · b. 1986
Robak creates hyper dense digital environments saturated with corporate branding, internet ephemera, and glitchy visual noise that mirrors the terminal online aesthetic and algorithmic decay found in Pathology Loop #46. His work similarly treats digital culture as a kind of fossilised residue, assembling fragments of commercial and web imagery into overwhelming single frame compositions.

Jon Rafman
Canadian · b. 1981

Rafman excavates the psychological wreckage of internet culture through collaged digital imagery drawn from online subcultures, conspiracy spaces, and cyberpunk aesthetics, closely paralleling Ball's assembling of UFO headlines, anime figures, and corporate iconography into a single frame of cultural entropy. Both artists treat the internet as a pathological archive of identity collapse and post human detritus.
Sara Ludy
American · b. 1980
Ludy works at the intersection of post internet aesthetics and digital collage, building layered visual environments where found imagery, glitch textures, and online cultural fragments dissolve into one another in ways that echo the hyper online sensibility and algorithmic decay central to Pathology Loop #46. Her practice shares Ball's treatment of digital space as a site of cultural and identity fragmentation.
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