We=Link: Sideways
We=Link: Sideways is an online exhibition by Chronus Art Center, (CAC), that is co-presented with V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media and ten other cultural organisations. It features twenty-two works by twenty-eight artists and artist collectives, spanning three decades of net art practice.
Online Opening 21 November 2020 @
we-link.chronusartcenter.org
We=Link: Sideways features twenty-two works by twenty-eight artists and artist collectives, from the pioneers of net art to current
practicioners. The works on display and online span three decades of net
art practice, from arguably the first internet-era artwork of the Thing
BBS in 1991 to the most current productions that continue to evolve
after the exhibition opens.
We=Link: Sideways is a Chronus Art Center (CAC) exhibition. It is the second edition of the We=Link
program, a platform for presenting online art,
conceived by Chronus Art Center in late February of 2020 as a response
to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Online co-presentation with CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Haus der Elektronischen Künste (Basel), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), Ars at CERN (Geneva), Elektra (Montreal), Leonardo/ISAST, Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul), Copenhagen Contemporary (Copenhagen), Light Art Space (Berlin) and in collaboration with artport of The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
We=Link: Sideways presents works by Mike Bennett, Wafaa Bilal, CHEN Pengpeng, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Matthieu Cherubini, Paolo Cirio, Leon Eckert, Ursula Endlicher, exonemo, Hervé Graumann, GUO Cheng, Vytas Jankauskas, Knowbotic Research, LAN, LIANG Yuhong, LIU Xing, Jonas Lund, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Haroon Mirza, Everest Pipkin, Cornelia Sollfrank, Wolfgang Staehle, Ubermorgen, Maciej Wisniewski, XU Haomin, ZHAO Hua and ZHOU Peng’an. The exhibition is curated by ZHANG Ga.
The exhibition includes Jonas Lund's The Internet Click which he developed for, and presented at V2_ as part of the event series 3x3.
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Often net art is referred to as the last avant-garde of the twentieth century. It emerged in the 1990s, which saw an unrestrained flourishing of online experiments on the internet, dealing with the cultural and social aspects of networked communication and critical engagement with the nascent new economy. Already by 1997 the institutional acknowledgment of this peripheral and fringe art practice, along with the commodification of the internet, made net art seem, according to art historian Dieter Daniels, to have 'reached a dead end or turning point.'
The exhibition We=Link: Sideway takes the purported net art’s 'dead end' as a starting point to chart a discursive trajectory of the many network-based art practices that have emerged since then. The exhibition attempts to uncover various developments of network-based art practices, diverse strategies, critical positions and aesthetic experiments after the crash of the dot.com bubble, when neoliberalism and cognitive capitalism prevailed and populism and nationalism were on the rise.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an extended essay to further contextualize the works and their implicit resonances with the historic tradition of net art and the avant-garde at large.
A series of exhibition-related programs and performances will be organized during the six-month exhibition period. Such as the performance Later Date by Lauren Lee McCarthy, which will be performed live through V2_’s website.
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Online co-presentation with:
In collaboration with artport / The Whitney Museum of American Art
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Join Leonardo's Social Connecting with Coffee and Cocktails for an informal discussion around the online exhibition "We=Link Ten Easy Pieces"
Chronus Art Center presents an online exhibition that will open on March 30, 2020. 'Screentime' by Helmut Smits, developed at V2_, is part of it.
Artist Jonas Lund will create three new experiments in our 3x3 series. This is his third 3x3 installment.
The Internet . Click (2017) is work by Jonas Lund created during a live coding performance at V2_ in Rotterdam.
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living.
Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (IE/US) is an artist developing interactive network projects.
UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, founder of etoy.
knowbotic research sees the transformation of the public sphere as ongoing process.
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