LinkCabinet
Link Cabinet is the Link Art Center online exhibition space: a single web page hosting solo shows where artists exhibit a single, site-specific artwork. Conceived as a white and neutral exhibition space with an essential interface, Link Cabinet is a blank page that will be transformed by the works on display.
Link Cabinet shows a selection of web-based art works with a focus on international artists. Each show will be available online for about 5 weeks. After the show, the projects won’t be available on the site anymore. The Link Art Center is open to collector’s inquires related to the site-specific version of the project presented at Link Cabinet.
Link Cabinet is a project by Matteo Cremonesi for the Link Art Center.
DUOX: Boy’dega: Installment 3, Bond’s Salon
The last project by DUOX titled BOY’Dega is a complex and articulated art work conceived as a piece of open transmedia storytelling that aims to challenge the tropes of TV series questioning the relationship between fans, authors, actors and creators. All the materials are collected on the project website, where anyone can surf without following any fixed path – thus shaping the story, knowing the characters and the locations, watching trailers and posters, and navigating through the download section.
Link Cabinet is happy to present the preview of the third season of the project: Boy’dega: Installment 3, Bond’s Salon. Season 3 takes place in a Baltimore salon owned by BOND, played by Betty Fashionopulous, one of the main characters of the series. This space serves multiple functions and is modeled after a CIA office, a traditional hair salon and Vogue’s fashion closet. The salon becomes the place where news, gossip and rumors are collected and can be transformed in new possibilities to develop the characters and the story itself.
Jonas Lund: Return of Investment
With Return of Investment Jonas Lund focused on the financial rules of the contemporary art world, turning Link Cabinet into an advertisement space that anyone could purchase. The web page hosted only one ad at a time, and the banner has been replaced only when a new investor applied for the ad space. Every transaction resulted in an increase of the price, calculated on the basis of a rate similar to the average annual return of investment of contemporary art in 2012.
This new project — premiered at Link Cabinet — is a further development in Jonas Lund’s ongoing exploration of the contemporary art world, its social rules and ways of working. The act of buying the web page is at the same time the purchase of an ad space and a financial investment that one can capitalize on by selling to the next buyer: a clear reference to the contemporary art market, where collecting art works can either be an act of patronage or a mere financial investment.
