The Xegis CodexBrent KnollHi. My name is Iain. I grew up in Somerset, South West England, in a village called Brent Knoll. The Knoll dates back to the Jurassic Period 300 million years ago and in Roman times it was known as the Mount of Frogs. Perhaps the amphibians in the nearby Levels serenaded the land with their croaks during summer evenings, earning it this fanciful name. My name “Ball”, is a name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, but that’s just a random coincidenc...

When I was about fourteen or fifteen years old I found a glob of black tar in my Dads garage.I think that it was a kind of bitumen used for fixing things like roofs. I took the tar and rolled it into a blob, put it in a jar of water and added some blue food colouring to the water and called it “Sethix”. True story. This didn’t seem unusual, because I was a weird (creative) kid, I guess. I took that thing out into the street and put it on the floor as people walked past because I wanted to gau...

A few years ago now, I made the decision to drop out of the art world, and out of the art scene at large, deleting my social media and embarking on an entirely different path into the future. There are many reasons for this, some are practical and economic, others are more grounded in metaphysics, but primarily it’s for spiritual reasons. I am so very thankful to all of the platforms, galleries, publications and institutions that have enabled me to present my work and ideas, particularly beca...

________________ 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Adversarial Synthetic Conditioning (ASC)Adversarial Synthetic Intelligence (ASI)The Agenda A/B/C FrameworkAll Humanity ⋅ Flood 2.0! > SETHIX ⟹ ∟Alien/Acc (👽/Acc)Avatar PrimitivismBeehive CommunismBioSecurity MatrixCreeper SystemsE N E R G Y ⋮ H A R V E S TFlood 2.0!The Harvester ResistanceInflammatory Stressor EnergyIntelligenic SyntheticsIntellectual Currents of The New Dawn (ICND)The Inversion of SethLiquigenic NanoRefreshManifold Hack-SpaceMetaCosmic AIMillennial Digital Weavers (Weaver N...

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...