JODI

Country: BE-NL

Born: None

Bio: JODI, or (jodi.org) – pioneered net.art in 1995. JODI were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs, and video and computer games. Radically disrupting the very language of these systems, including visual aesthetics, interface elements, commands, errors and code. JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilise the relationship between computer technology and its users by subverting our expectations about the functionalities and conventions of the systems that we depend upon every day. JODI’s work is featured in most art historical volumes about digital and media art, is exhibited worldwide in ; Documenta-X; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ZKM; ICC; CCA; Guggenheim; IMAL; Centre Pompidou; Eyebeam; FACT; MoMi; Harvard Art Museums; Rhizome; MoMa, among others.

Artworks

• Automatic Rain (1995)

  Description: None

  Instructions: Windows 95, Resolution 640x480, 800x600, Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 3.0

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• wwwwwwwww.jodi.org (1995)

  Description: A screen of garbled green text looks like a broken website, until the viewer checks the HTML code through the browser's "View Source" function and realizes that the page is generated from a text drawing of a nuclear missile. The code also includes the <blink> tag, which in legacy browsers makes the text flash on and off, adding to the chaotic effect.

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