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Bio

Jonas Lund is an Amsterdam based artist. His work explores the performance of time within networked systems and our shared online experiences. His interest stretches across a range of interdisciplinary media, focusing on the reciprocal potential of combining web based works with video, performance and installation. Born in Sweden, Jonas graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2009.

Abstracts

‘The Credits’ is a website, by the Swedish artist Jonas Lund, showing names passing by at a seemingly random order, just like the opening credits to a movie. The names all come from the art world and are a collection of connected artists, curators and writers. The names represents the identifiable brand of each of the actors within the art world game, some obscure others recognizable, ‘The Credits’ aims to question our perception of names as brands within the contemporary art world.

‘Curated By’ is a single channel video projection depicting typical documentation pictures from exhibitions to the sound of a computer generated voice reading a list of 81 attributes in alphabetical order. While building his ‘Art World Api’, artist Jonas Lund stumbled upon the attributes while he was searching for the curator of each exhibition in his database. Through a script, Lund googled for the exhibition title and the key words ‘Curated By’, returned the two following words after ‘Curated By’ and discovered the name of the curator. However sometimes curators are described by a set of attributes, such as ‘The Acclaimed’ or ‘The Eminent’ and ‘Curated By’ is a compilation of these attributes, paired with a picture from the exhibition they refer to. The video aims to explore the importance of curators to give meaning and categorize the seemingly endless pool of exhibitions within the contemporary art world.

Tech

2 x sony TV cubes 2 x computer 1 x beamer 1 x internet connection

Abstract descriptive (partly obscure)

The art world is a large and partly obscure system consisting of institutions, galleries, collectors, curators, auctions, art fairs, biennales, writers, publishers, exhibitions and artists. Each individual participant becomes a node in a network of relations – the art world is a system like any other networked based system. The amount of connections to each individual node in the network determines its performance, the more connection the more traffic and the more success. It’s partly a zero sum game, what benefits one node starves another in a network with limited resources. The data of the network is public, from artist CV’s to exhibition invitations, press releases and public auction results, it can all be collected, categorized and classified