
Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #2 (1/10 edition)
2024
Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #2 (2024) is a 1/10 edition from Iain Ball’s Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series. The work subjects the artist’s landmark 2009 Symptoms project to AI-driven mutation, reconfiguring an early digital collage and object assemblage into a haunting gallery sculpture: a white, foam-like mass with crumpled translucent green plastic and a single living ivy leaf emerging from the form. This recursive process continues Ball’s long-term exploration of techno-materialism and the unstable boundaries between digital residue, physical substance, and biological life. The piece functions as both a documentation of the original intervention and a new living artifact — demonstrating how human craft is increasingly cyborgianised, metabolised, and re-patterned by algorithmic vision.
- Medium
- AI-Augmented Sculpture Documentation, Symptoms ♨ Transmutation NFT (Ethereum)
- Edition
- 1 of 10
- Signed
- Yes
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- Created by Iain Ball as part of the Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series (2025), reinterpreting the original 2009 Symptoms ♨ project. Minted as a 1/10 edition ERC-721 NFT on Ethereum via Manifold (Manifold ID: 4175438064). 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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Haim Steinbach
Israeli-American · b. 1944

Steinbach's work similarly blurs the boundary between found objects and sculptural assemblage within gallery contexts, investigating how everyday materials accumulate cultural and material meaning. His shelf based arrangements share Ball's interest in techno materialism and the uncanny recontextualization of objects into formal sculptural statements.
Rachel de Joode
Dutch · b. 1979
De Joode works at the intersection of digital image making and physical sculpture, often translating digitally generated or AI processed forms into tangible objects with organic and synthetic textures that feel simultaneously alive and artificial. Her practice directly mirrors Ball's recursive movement between digital origin and physical sculptural outcome.

Pamela Rosenkranz
Swiss · b. 1979

Rosenkranz uses synthetic foams, plastics, and organic materials to interrogate the porous boundary between biological life and artificial substance, producing works with a similarly haunting and post internet materiality. Her sculptures share the foam like masses and translucent synthetic qualities visible in Ball's Symptoms Transmutation series.
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