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Iain Ball — Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #2 (1/10 edition)
Iain Ball

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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Iain Ball, 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)
Year
2024
Edition
of 10
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Symptoms Transmutation, Transmedia Systems, Techno-Materialism, Post-Internet Aesthetics, Recursive Mutation, Gallery Sculpture, Trans-spatiotemporal Art, Substance Art, AI Augmentation, Post-physical Art

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