The Link
2015–2016.
Plexiglass, steel, led, 360-degree web-camera.
Website: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual
Hashterms
Describes an event or object that can exist in both the real and virtual domains, as well as those that exist in neither domain, but in both at the same time.
Derived from interface as it relates to both -inter & –faith. It acknowledges that bridging between topologies of religious and secular believe systems requires elaborated modelling of knowledge and experience.
Machinery capable of producing epistemologies.
Relates to computational infrastructure as an accidental megastructure that embodies a form of ecology.
The three-metre-long metal and plexiglass object with LED-illuminated text is intended for display in public spaces. A 360-degree camera on a tripod is positioned in front of it. The text is a URL and a sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. The URL suggests the web link is active. Visiting it leads to a webpage with a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the object’s display site. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the link’s text, appearing simultaneously in both the real and virtual situations, or as the artist puts it, in the ‘virtureal’ dimension.
The three-metre-long object is made of metal and plexiglass, with LED-illuminated text engraved into it. It is intended for display in various public spaces, alongside a 360-degree camera positioned on a tripod in front of it. The text is both a URL and a complete sentence stating –
https://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.
The syntax of the URL suggests that the web link is active. Visiting the URL leads to a webpage featuring a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the site on which the object is displayed. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the transition manifested in the link's text, appearing simultaneously in both the real situation and its virtual replica, or perhaps more accurately, in between the two. This demonstrates how the two dimensions inform each other through displacement and intertwining, which is what the artists' self-coined term 'virtureal' describes.
'The Link' video documentation, 2015
Art Prospect festival, St. Petersburg RUS, 2017
Wimbergergasse, Vienna AUT, 2020
The Link
2015–2016.
Plexiglass, steel, led, 360-degree web-camera.
Website: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual
Hashterms
Describes an event or object that can exist in both the real and virtual domains, as well as those that exist in neither domain, but in both at the same time.
Derived from interface as it relates to both -inter & –faith. It acknowledges that bridging between topologies of religious and secular believe systems requires elaborated modelling of knowledge and experience.
Machinery capable of producing epistemologies.
Relates to computational infrastructure as an accidental megastructure that embodies a form of ecology.
The three-metre-long metal and plexiglass object with LED-illuminated text is intended for display in public spaces. A 360-degree camera on a tripod is positioned in front of it. The text is a URL and a sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual. The URL suggests the web link is active. Visiting it leads to a webpage with a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the object’s display site. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the link’s text, appearing simultaneously in both the real and virtual situations, or as the artist puts it, in the ‘virtureal’ dimension.
The three-metre-long object is made of metal and plexiglass, with LED-illuminated text engraved into it. It is intended for display in various public spaces, alongside a 360-degree camera positioned on a tripod in front of it. The text is both a URL and a complete sentence stating –
https://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual.
The syntax of the URL suggests that the web link is active. Visiting the URL leads to a webpage featuring a live, 360-degree panoramic video stream of the site on which the object is displayed. By visiting the URL, the spectator effectively re-enacts the transition manifested in the link's text, appearing simultaneously in both the real situation and its virtual replica, or perhaps more accurately, in between the two. This demonstrates how the two dimensions inform each other through displacement and intertwining, which is what the artists' self-coined term 'virtureal' describes.
'The Link' video documentation, 2015
Art Prospect festival, St. Petersburg RUS, 2017
Wimbergergasse, Vienna AUT, 2020
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
Contact:
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio Addresses
Ikejiri, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Neubau, Vienna, Austria
Contact
mail[at]kraft.studio
Studio
E. G. Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
