Jodi: Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans

Abstract:
Mixing the new geometries, one can draw on the surface of the Earth with icons as proposed by online tools such as Google Maps. Of course, in a pure JODI style: hectic and free traces resulting from extreme coding and hacking. Explores the relations between the world we build through the Internet and the one based on our past mental and physical maps. Services such as Google Maps have changed radically our worldview by making the globe accessible as a commercial multi-user surface. Mapping these online geometrical constructs to reality and vice versa. GeoGoo patterns overlaying their figures as random coded jogging paths. S*** directions: ***

Biography:
Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium). Their background is in photography and video art; since the mid-1990s they started to create original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also turned to software art and artistic computer game modification. Since 2002, they have been in what has been called their “Screen Grab” period, making video works by recording the computer monitor’s output while working, playing video games, or coding.