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Jodi (art collective)

Jodi,is acollectiveof two internet artists, Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 inKaatsheuvel,theNetherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 inBrussels,Belgium), created in 1994. They were some of the first artists to createWeb artand later started to createsoftware artandartistic computer game modification.Their most well-known art piece is their website wwwwww jodi.org, which is a landscape of intricate designs made in basic HTML.[1]JODI is represented by Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam.[2]

JODI
Dirk Paesmans and Joan Heemskerk
JODI 1pixelpusher at Showroom MAMA

The artists

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Joan Heemskerk was born in 1968 inKaatsheuvel,theNetherlands,and Dirk Paesmans was born in 1965 inBrussels,Belgium.They both have a background inphotographyandvideo artand studied at theCADRE Laboratory for New MediaatSan Jose State Universityin California. Paesmans also studied atKunstakademie Düsseldorfwith the founder of video artNam June Paik.

Both Heemskerk and Paesmans live and work out of theNetherlands.[3]

Artworks

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In 1999 they began the practice of modifying old video games such asWolfenstein 3Dto createart modslikeSOD.[4]Their efforts were celebrated in the1999 Webby Awards,where they took top prize in the category of "net art."Jodi used their 5-word acceptance speech (a Webby Award tradition) to criticize the event with the words" Ugly commercial sons of bitches. "[5]Further video game modifications soon followed forQuake,Jet Set Willy,and the latest,Max Payne 2(2006), to create a new set ofart games.Jodi's approach to game modification is comparable in many ways todeconstructivismin architecture because they would disassemble the game to its basic parts, and reassemble it in ways that do not make intuitive sense. In one of their more well-known modifications ofQuakeplaces, the player inside a closed cube with swirling black-and-white patterns on each side. The pattern is the result of a glitch in thegame enginediscovered by the artists, presumably, through trial and error; it is generated live as theQuake enginetries, and fails, to visualize the interior of a cube with black-and-white checkered wallpaper.

"Screen Grab" Period (2002- )

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Since 2002, Jodi have been in what has been called their "Screen Grab" period,[6]making video works by recording a computer monitor's output while working, playing video games, or coding. The "Screen Grab" period began with the four-screen video installationMy%Desktop(2002), which premiered at the Plugin Media Lab in Basel. The piece appeared to depict large, malfunctioningMac OS 9monitors that displayed cascading windows, error messages, and files endlessly replicating themselves. To make this video, Jodi pointed-and-clicked and dragged-and-dropped frantically to give an appearance of uncontrolled chaos.[7]

Their exhibitionJodi: goodmorning goodnightwas on display at theWhitney Museumfrom 2013 to 2015.[8]Another project,OXO(2018), premiered at theLightbox GalleryatHarvard Universityand, later that year, would also form Jodi's contribution to the group exhibitionDifference Engineat theLisson GalleryinNew York City, New York.The piece is an interactive multichannel installation based on old computer games andtic-tac-toe.[9][10]

AlongsideDifference Engine,Jodi also held their first solo exhibition in the Los Angeles area— a self-titled exhibition at theAnd/Or GalleryinPasadena, Californiawhich involved, in part, recreating the gallery's coffered ceiling on the floor to be navigated by visitors.[10]

A 2012Vicemagazinearticle said JODI's work "underlines the innate anarchy of the online medium, an arena that we've come to recognize as public but one that the duo constantly undermines and tweaks to their own purposes."[1]

As of October 2019,My%Desktopis part of the permanent collection presentation of the new MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. The work is presented as a monumental installation of four adjacent projections, showing screen grabs of JODI's desktop-performance.[11]

Collections

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The work of JODI is represented in the permanent collection of theMuseum of Modern Art,[12]ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,[13]among other venues.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"[#DIGART] JODI Makes Art Online, But Don't Call Them Net Artists".Creators.Archived fromthe originalon 2019-10-29.Retrieved2019-11-01.
  2. ^"JODI".
  3. ^"Electronic Arts Intermix: JODI".eai.org.Retrieved2019-11-01.
  4. ^Stalker, Phillipa Jane.Gaming In Art: A Case Study Of Two Examples Of The Artistic Appropriation Of Computer Games And The Mapping Of Historical Trajectories Of 'Art Games' Versus Mainstream Computer Games.University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg. 2005.
  5. ^Archived Winner Speeches - 1999 Winner SpeechesArchived2008-08-28 at theWayback Machine.Webby Awards.Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  6. ^"JODI pioneering net artists".DAM MUSEUM.4 March 2021. Archived fromthe originalon 3 June 2023.
  7. ^Wolf Lieser.Digital Art.Langenscheidt: h.f. ullmann. 2009. pp. 199-201
  8. ^"JODI: goodmorning goodnight".Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived fromthe originalon 4 June 2023.Retrieved2019-11-01.
  9. ^Harvard."Exhibitions, JODI: OXO | Harvard Art Museums".harvardartmuseums.org.Retrieved2019-11-01.
  10. ^abChiaverina, John (2018-07-17)."'You Can Still Make Websites Nowadays': A Talk with the Pioneering Internet Art Collective JODI ".ARTnews.Archived fromthe originalon 31 January 2023.
  11. ^"JODI in permanent collection presentation of the new MoMA, New York".
  12. ^"JODI, Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paesmans".Retrieved24 April2022.
  13. ^"ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe".Retrieved24 April2022.

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