Iain Ball

First published Mar 29, 2023ƎARTH ÆXO13I started this year with the intention of taking a prolonged technobreak, but then AI exploded and I was way too tempted to mess around with it. If your reading this and human, thanks for finding this text, it’s human too, I am really writing this. Nowadays I just update my blogs and website, I’m not connected to any social media, or cultural sphere. The only networks I connect to exist in the Astral Plane. My running thesis has been that advanced MetaCo...

Jurassic Accelerationism, Forced Dinosaurisation & Beehive CommunismOriginally published by Tzvetnik.Online in December 2020, this version contains some minor grammatical changes and phrasing edits.A decade ago I began developing Post.Consumer.Cult, a transmedia content cloud which, like the Ship of Theseus, can have its parts infinitely replaced, edited, remixed, revisited and physically produced if required – it operates as somewhat of an information system that desires negentropy whilst su...

Statement 20212012bFirst published Aug 5, 2021> My work is best viewed on my website at iainball.com – this is because all media converges, collapses and remains (though subject to entropy / *theseus) — as part of a transmedia interface - Which can then be re-created, reformatted, printed out, re-purposed and fabricated in multiple spatial dimensions before returning to the interface. Everything is information – so Art is information; digital, analog or otherwise: Contemporary Artworks, in th...

SMALL MAITREYA SOLAR CROSS, EXO TERRA SUN GLO HALOGEN NEODYMIUM REPTILE LAMP, FEMALE BEARDED DRAGON, DRIFTWOOD, 15:42 min AUDIOTRACK, PHILIPS SHOQBOX BLUETOOTH SPEAKER, TERRARIUM 214 X 114 X 154 CM, 2011/2014 Published in Rare Earth, Sternberg press 2014INTRODUCTIONE N E R G Y⋮P A N G E A (energypangea.org) is an umbrella identity and multi-trajectory accumulator for the development of transmedia sculptural systems. The project, in its development since late 2010 works towards the idea of str...

Philips 2013 (2010,2014) Installation View at IMPAKT Festival 2014Introduction 2021 PHILIPS 2013 is a project that I first systematised over a decade ago in 2010. It was incubated throughout much of 2009 whilst I was active on Tumblr and had formed links with R-U-IN?S[>] – a Network which was instigated and is chiefly operated by Kai Altmann. During 2009 I was developing a sister network which entangled with R-U-IN?S called Old Earth Objects [>] – PHILIPS 2013 mutated out of those network str...

________________ A New Paradigm of Planetary Civilisation is looming on the horizon∟In all honesty I’m hesitating to write this text as I begin because I’m trying to remain off-network as much as possible. When I say off network it sounds cool, but really what I mean is offline — off of social media and off the physical Internet. “The Network” is much harder to remain off of, because the wider network is attributed to spirit and consciousness, which are joined and connected without the need f...