Iain Ball
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(RES) Lutetium is a reverse engineering project. Energy Pangea provided hyperdimensional polytope designs rendered in 2D by Jonathan Bowers (Hedrondude) to Clifford Sage (Recsund), who then modelled the objects in 3D based on the limited 2D information. Energy Pangea then 3D printed the models in solid plastic, coloured them, renamed, and placed them in various environs. The purpose of this exercise is based on the concept of interface penetration.
Explanation of Interface Penetration:
Interface penetration is the core operational mechanism of transmedia sculptural systems—amorphous, cloud-based, biopsychosocial art-organisms that refuse localization, totality, or anthropocentric readability. It describes how a primary agent-object (a stealth device, logo, blackbox, or multi-object node—never the full "sculpture") infiltrates, binds to, and transmutes any substrate it encounters, whether physical (gallery, environment, collector's home), digital (website, NFT, .jpg file, reblog), or archival (patent, narrative strand, future alien hologram).
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ENERGY⋮PANGEA (2010–2019) is an evolving artwork-as-system by Iain Ball that reconfigured sculpture into networks of objects, environments, and psyche. Developed through an unfinished Rare Earth cycle, it probes resource extraction (on/off-world), supply chains, techno-dependence, geopolitics, altered states/UFO speculation, and the tangle of New-Age mysticism with consumer capitalism.
This contract preserves the surviving works and archives as authenticated on-chain artifacts—1/1s, series, and editions—each a live node in the ENERGY⋮PANGEA ecology. Provenance, royalties, and metadata are enforced at the protocol level, securing a historically significant post-materialist project and enabling collectors to hold operative fragments that continue to propagate meaning across time and networks.
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The Rare Earth Sculpture Project (2011– ) forms the core of ENERGY⋮PANGEA, where each element becomes the anchor for a sculptural system interweaving objects, sound, text, and environment. These NFTs function as components and documents of that wider system, secured on-chain as part of the Legacy Archive. For full texts, images, and extended context, read the series on Paragraph:
https://paragraph.com/@energypangea