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Iain Ball — Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (1/10 edition)
Iain Ball

Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (1/10 edition)

2024

Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (2025) is a 1/10 edition from Iain Ball’s Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series. The work takes the artist’s landmark 2009 digital collages — originally transparent PNGs that circulated freely in post-internet image cultures — and subjects them to AI-mediated mutation, reimagining them as large-scale physical sculptures documented in pristine white gallery spaces. This recursive gesture collapses the aura of gallery documentation back into a new digital asset, creating a charged feedback loop where image, object, and documentation continually transmute, probing the unstable boundaries between virtual and physical in contemporary art. This process continues Ball’s long-term exploration of the unstable intersections between ecology, technology, consumer culture, and post-internet aesthetics.

Medium
AI-mediated Digital Collage / Object Assemblage, NFT (Ethereum)
Edition
1 of 10
Signed
Yes
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
Created by Iain Ball, 2025, as part of the Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series (a reworking of the 2009 Symptoms ♨ project). Minted as 1 of 10 ERC-721 edition on Ethereum via Manifold (ID: 4175620336). 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 "Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7", created in 2024

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Iain Ball, Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (1/10 edition), 2024

Symptoms ♨ Transmutation #7 (2025) is a 1/10 edition from Iain Ball’s Symptoms ♨ Transmutation series. The work takes the artist’s landmark 2009 digital collages — originally transparent PNGs that circulated freely in post-internet image cultures — and subjects them to AI-mediated mutation, reimagining them as large-scale physical sculptures documented in pristine white gallery spaces. This recursive gesture collapses the aura of gallery documentation back into a new digital asset, creating a charged feedback loop where image, object, and documentation continually transmute, probing the unstable boundaries between virtual and physical in contemporary art. This process continues Ball’s long-term exploration of the unstable intersections between ecology, technology, consumer culture, and post-internet aesthetics.

Medium
AI-mediated Digital Collage / Object Assemblage, NFT (Ethereum)
Year
2024
Edition
of 10
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist

Related themes

Consumer Culture, Series, Assemblage, Living Artist, Mid-Career, Conceptual, NFT, Installation, Mixed Media, Post-Internet, Synthetic, Collage, Technology, Environmentalism, Limited Edition, Colorful, Post-physical Art, Hybrid Forms, Digital Art, Contemporary, Abstract Composition

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