A luminous hyperlink is set up in various locations. The URL address is a full sentence: http://this-is-the.link/between/the/real-and-virtual
Familiar syntax suggests that it’s an active weblink. A web page is located at the address given in the link, showing a streamed real-time 360-degree panorama camera view of its location.
By performing such an ordinary action as following the URL, the spectator literally re-enacts the transition manifested in the link, 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 and virtual, and even more accurately as something exactly in between the two, demonstrating how both govern each other. It may also be referring to Alvin Luciers I Am Sitting in a Room and Nam June Paik’s TV Buddha.
