John Haag (Design, Sandberg Instituut) and Paul Schmidt (Critical Studies, Sandberg Instituut) were selected through the Open Call by Public & Projects to take over the Pavilion of the Rietveld Academie in February 2025.
The internet is links. But they are dying, and the internet is already said to be dead. Platforms arrived, transformed and ate the hyperlink, now so-called ‘AI’ is here to get the rest. Art won’t necessarily help, neither ‘innovation’. Until then, we share.
In Love with Links invited you to drink tea and share links. The initiators indexed them with screenshots to capture a fragment of the internet's history. The heart of their network are the lists ≡, collaborators curated to recommend or tell something. Screens in the space presented rolling the network's content. An overview of the growing link-archive could be seen and navigated with the rhizomatic visualisation, online and in the space. With hand-set connections, the links as well as stacks of internet-related books, provided the opportunity to browse without limits but within the network, and ILWL's space and time. A complementary programming staged workshops, lectures and music.
Events:
10.02., 5:30pm: Our Aesthetic Categories — Reading Group with Linda Moretti
11.02., 5:30pm: Shadow Libraries and The Undercommons—PDFs coming from below with PV Schmidt
12.02., 5:30pm: KONTENT KOMBAT with Chiara Benevolo and Cassandre Tornay
13.02., 5:30pm: wired2 live in the Pavilion and from Seoul, South Korea with Martin Gius and Ye Eun Nam Koong
14.02., 5:30pm: Closing — ‘Track ID? service’ with John Haag
Links, further information and program details on inlovewithlinks.net
Photos by Matija Stojanovic