THE LINK SERIES
Plexiglass, steel, led, streaming 360 web-camera, Website:http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual 2015 – 2016
Dimensions: 300 x 200 cm
Video documentation:
https://vimeo.com/198092935
A luminous hyperlink is set up in various locations. The URL address is a full sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.Familiar syntax suggests that it's an active weblink. A web page located at the address given in the link, showing a streamed realtime 360-degree panorama camera view of its location. By providing such an ordinary action as following the URL, spectator literally re-enacts manifested in the link transition,
emerging between the actual situation and its virtual replica. This suggests the correlation, displacement and intertwining of real and virtual, where it is no longer necessary nor feasible distinguishing between the two. The work may be seen as both material or virtual or one in between the two, suggesting an order in which each governs another.
The Link exhibited at Art Prospekt Festival in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2016