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Bio

Jonas Lund (SE) 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.

Abstracts

‘The Credits’ is a website showing names passing by in seemingly random order, like the opening credits to a movie. The names 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 attributes in alphabetical order. 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.

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