If anyone who is interested in web art, hacked video games, glitch, and custom software, check out this Screening/Conversation event at the Electronic Arts Intermix with JODI at 6:30 PM on April 2nd.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
www.eai.org
Admission $ 7.00 / Students $ 5.00
Free for EAI Members
RSVP: rsvp@eai.org
EAI is pleased to present a screening and conversation with JODI that explores their early works. Joined by Michael Connor, guest curator of Street Digital, a forthcoming exhibition devoted to JODI’s work at Museum of the Moving Image, JODI will lead the audience through several early experiments on the Web and on mailing lists, as well as other key works from the mid-1990s to the present. Following the presentation, Cory Arcangel, who describes himself a “MASSIVE fan” of JODI, will speak with the duo about the influence their art has had on a generation of artists engaging with the Internet.
Based in The Netherlands, JODI were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs, and video games. Radically disrupting the very language of these systems, including interfaces, commands, errors and code, JODI stage extreme digital interventions that destabilize the relationship between computer technology and its users. JODI rose to prominence in the mid-1990s as pioneers of “net.art,” a movement that explored the nascent World Wide Web as an alternative exhibition space and a creative medium in its own right.
The discussion will explore the participatory dimension of JODI’s practice. In contrast with the positive emphasis that many artists place on the idea of “activating” the viewer, interaction in JODI’s work is a gleefully disruptive experience that calls our relationship with technology into question.
For more information about JODI’s work, please click here.