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[Rare Earth Sculptures] Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VII, 2016) #29
2016
[Rare Earth Sculptures] Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VII, 2016) is a 1/1 archival poster from the Praseodymium series. It documents one of the key sculptural installations in the Rare Earth Sculptures project — a large-scale outdoor psychotechnical artefact designed for the transmission and reception of paranoid signals intelligence (P-SIGINT). The work explores themes of mass surveillance, psychological warfare, narrative collapse, and technological control.
- Medium
- Archival Poster, Documentation Relic, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball / ENERGY⋮PANGEA, 2016. Minted as a 1/1 ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA Legacy Archive (contract: 0x9663df3b9541f882a43dd160396def7846c23749, Token ID: 29). Directly from the artist’s collection. Artist-retained since creation. Full on-chain provenance is publicly verifiable on Manifold and Etherscan.
- Location
- Blockchain (Ethereum) + Arweave
Notes
This piece might be titled "Praseodymium (Intracrine signal VII)", created in 2016
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French · b. 1999
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Simon Denny
New Zealander · b. 1982

Denny creates large scale sculptural and installation works that aestheticize surveillance technology, NSA documents, and intelligence community iconography, closely mirroring Ball's approach of transforming signals intelligence apparatus into psychotechnical sculptural objects.
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