THE LINK SERIES

2015–2016
Plexiglass, steel, LED, streaming 360 web camera;
Website: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.

An object with a brightly illuminated hyperlink is exhibited in various locations, including public spaces. The URL is the complete sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. A webpage located at the given address displays a real-time streamed 360° camera view of the actual site. By providing such an ordinary action as following the URL, the spectator literally re-enacts manifested in the link transition, emerging between the actual situation and its virtual replica.

An object with a brightly illuminated hyperlink is exhibited in various locations, including public spaces. The URL is the complete 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 real-time 360-degree panorama camera view of its location. By providing such an ordinary action as following the URL, the 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 to distinguish between the two. The work could be seen as both material or virtual, and even more accurately as one, exactly in between the two, demonstrating how both govern each other. And may also be referring to both Alvin Luciers 'I Am Sitting in a Room' and Nam June Paik's 'TV Buddha'.