Jonas Lund (born 1984) is a Swedish conceptual artist who creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect on contemporary networked systems and power structures. An example of this is his exhibition "The Fear of Missing Out" (2013) at MAMA, Rotterdam.
Biography
Lund earned an MA at
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2013) and a BFA at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009).
Lund was an
Eyebeam resident in 2012.
Work
Lund's artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in game-like artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and authority. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.
In 2014 Lund created a painting series called Flip City that was first exhibited at Steve Turner in Los Angeles. Each of the forty painting had a GPS trackers attached to the back that shared its current location once a day to the Flip City website. The work aimed to explore the manipulative nature of the art market, in particular the habit of a group of collectors to quickly sell and resell artworks for increased profits, typically referred to as 'flipping'.
In 2018, Lund created his own crypto currency Jonas Lund Token, an
ERC-20 token on top of the
Ethereum
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (abbreviation: ETH) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capitalization. It is open-s ...
Blockchain
The blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of Record (computer science), records (''blocks'') that are securely linked together via Cryptographic hash function, cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of th ...
, that functions as
voting shares in his artistic practice, thus giving birth to a new art form called "performance-art capitalism".
In January 2019, in a performance/installation Lund set up an influencing agency titled Operation Earnest Voice at
The Photographers' Gallery in London. The goal of the installation was to reverse Brexit, which caused some controversy and critique from the organisation Leave Means Leave due to
The Photographers' Gallery status as a charity, in part funded by the
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council o ...
, and as such should not be involved in political campaigning. In a public statement, the gallery said it had followed guidelines from the Charity Commission, consulted with
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council o ...
, as well as taken legal advice "to ensure that the project complied with all appropriate regulations especially with regard to publicly funded, charitable institutions".
As a result, it "would not adjust or shut down the project".
See also
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Conceptual Art
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Media Art
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Internet Art
upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden
Internet art (also known as net art or web art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance o ...
References
External links
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Swedish contemporary artists
Swedish digital artists
Living people
1984 births
People from Linköping