There is an invisible and immanent cosmic force, not conscious in any individual, group, or institution, that is implicit in the erasure of certain kinds of Knowledge and expression.
If this makes sense to you, welcome to the Gnostic worldview.
Iain Ball (b. 1985, UK) is a British multidisciplinary artist, theorist and esoteric philosopher based in London. His work engages speculative systems thinking across sculpture, digital media, writing, and on-chain publishing.
Emerging in the late 2000s as part of the Post-Internet scene, he initially developed projects such as the Rare Earth Sculptures series and transmedia installations that explored technology, material culture, and perception.
Around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ball stepped back from institutional art structures. This period marked a spiritual turning point that redirected his practice toward sustained research and writing on esotericism, Gnosticism, consciousness, and Ufology.
Since 2025 he has worked actively in Web3, publishing and minting directly on Ethereum mainnet through platforms such as Manifold and Arweave for permanent, decentralised storage. His central current projects are the Xegis Codex — a serialised archive of esoteric research, ontological inquiry, and speculative theology — and the ÆXO13 framework. These projects examine UAP studies, exopolitics, and the risks of non-human intervention, while advocating for human sovereignty in the face of alien-hybrid systems, technocratic control, and post-human architectures.
Ball’s work operates at the intersection of Post-Internet Art, Techno-Esoteric and Cyber-Gnostic systems, Dark Futurism, and conceptual art grounded in speculative systems thinking, while also engaging with Generative and AI Art, software design and data sculpture, live code, LLM-powered theorycrafting, Blockchain and On-Chain practices, and emerging post-secular and post-rationalist discourse.