JODI
1994–
JODI (Joan Heemskerk, b. 1968, Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands; and Dirk Paesmans, b. 1965, Brussels, Belgium), or jodi.org, started making web art in 1994. Based in the Netherlands, they were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the internet, computer programs, and video and computer games. JODI stages digital interventions that destabilize the relationship between computer technology and its users, radically disrupting the very language of these systems. They use a wide range of mediums and techniques—including installations, software, websites, and performances—to challenge our relationship to the technologies that we depend upon every day. JODI’s work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibited worldwide at venues including Documenta X, Kassel, Germany (1997); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; InterCommunication Center Tokyo; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Eyebeam, New York; FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens.
Introduction
Jodi is a collective of two internet artists, Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium), created in 1994. They were among the first artists to create Web art and later started to create software art and artistic computer game modification. Their most well-known art piece is their website wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, which is a landscape of intricate designs made in basic HTML. JODI is represented by Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam.
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Exhibitions & projects
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