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[REACt626] #23
2020
[REACt 626] #23 (2019–2021) is part of the [REACt 626] / D00BIE ENG1NE series. This work is a heavily abstracted and glitched reinterpretation of Wojak meltdown meme imagery, transformed through extreme digital layering and data corruption. Dominated by intense blood-red tones, melting forms, and aggressive distortion, it creates a visceral, infernal portrait that sits at the darker, more psychologically intense end of the series — oscillating between meme culture entropy and nightmarish digital abstraction.
- Medium
- Digital Collage, NFT (Ethereum)
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball, 2019–2021, as part of the [REACt 626] / D00BIE ENG1NE series. Minted as a 1/1 NFT on Ethereum (contract: 0x8f6d8f76dc2c5f4179078a6bc8b95fa282184357, Token ID: 23). 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
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Artists in conversation
Cory Arcangel
American · b. 1978
Arcangel works extensively with digital glitch aesthetics and corrupted data as expressive tools, manipulating internet culture artifacts and software errors into visceral visual experiences that mirror the aggressive distortion and meme entropy present in this piece.
Jon Rafman
Canadian · b. 1981
Rafman deeply engages with internet subcultures, meme imagery, and the psychological darkness lurking within digital spaces, producing heavily layered and nightmarish digital works that share this piece's infernal mood and obsession with online cultural decay.
Rosa Menkman
Dutch · b. 1983
Menkman is a leading practitioner of glitch art who intentionally corrupts digital files and exploits data errors to produce intense abstracted imagery, directly paralleling the extreme digital layering and data corruption techniques central to this blood red distorted portrait.
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