Egor Kraft – The Link
Creation date: 2014;
Plexiglass, steel frame, led, live streaming 360 web-camera, website;
Dimensions: 300 x 200 cm;
The video above is a documentation displayed here at times when the work is not being exhibited.
A luminous hyperlink is set up in various locations. The URL address is a full sentence, as its syntax suggests. A web page located at the address given in the link displays a streamed real-time 360-degree panoramic video of its location. By executing 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, thus establishing a feedback loop between "the real" and "virtual", where it is no longer necessary nor feasible to distinguish between the two.