From: "Marieke Istha" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, August 22, 2005 5:29 am
To: [email protected]
World Wide Wrong
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August 27 - October 22, 2005
Opening: Friday, August 26, 5:00 p.m.
The conventions regarding how we interact with and use computers were
accepted very quickly. People all over the world use the same graphic
icons and interface. With notes, recycle bins and files, the desktop
of a computer is a graphic reflection of a real desk. These
conventions appear to simplify the use of the computer for everyone.
On the other hand, they also strongly reflect a virtual reality which
makes it seem that the user has control over the machine. But everyone
who works with a computer knows that it's a different story. A
computer can run amok, freeze up, or simply refuse to do what you want
it to do. The artist pair JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans)
occupy themselves specifically with disruptive miscommunication of
this sort.
>From the birth of the Internet, JODI were already actively involved
with net art. They simulated computer crashes, viruses and error
messages with programs they wrote themselves. These projects were a
response to the rules of the Internet, and confront the visitor with
the cleverly designed interfaces and websites by showing the flip side
of the technology, the possibly ugly side. Before you know it dozens
of screens or a page full of programming codes appear on the desktop.
But the pair are not computer freaks constantly searching for new
opportunities. The goal is not to deregulate or reprogram the
computer. JODI's interest is primarily in the possibilities the
medium has for communication, within which it is primarily the
limitations of coded communication that they raise as issues.
In the late 1990s their attention shifted from the computer itself to
computer and video games. There are also many pre-programmed codes to
be found in the game culture which make it easier for the player to
quickly understand the game. JODI approaches such limits and
simplifications with the requisite skepticism. Through simple
interventions, they let us see other possibilities and applications.
For instance, the color architecture of the Quake game is simply
replaced by black and white fields, eliminating the player's sense of
direction and dimensionality. In their latest work they are searching
for the possibilities (and impossibilities) of GPS systems.
Just like many older video artists such as Nam June Paik and the
Vasulkas, for instance, JODI are consciously concerned with raising
technical standards for discussion, and modifying them. But rather
than producing predictable results, JODI go a step further by
employing the unpredictability in the use of software and playing with
the expectation patterns of the viewer/user.
The exhibition gives an overview of JODI, from their first computer
experiments on the Internet through their three-dimensional video
installations of game modifications.
Opening hours exhibition: Tuesday - Saturday and the first Sunday of
the month: 1 - 6 p.m.
Entrance 2,50 (1,50 with discount)
More information / Images: Marieke Istha Communication:
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl <http://www.montevideo.nl/>
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27 augustus - 22 oktober 2005
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