JODI

JODI is a collective of Joan Heemskerk (NL, 1968) and Dirk Paesmans (BE, 1965), live and work in Dordrecht (NL)

25 years of JODI at Art Basel 2021 JODI, Instapvloer (Entry floor), 2018, Cardboard cell grid 50x50x50 cm each.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij My Desktop, Exhibition view at MoMa, New York My Desktop, Exhibition view at MoMa, New York JODI, xn--3u7a.net, 2016, online website, domain name, acrylic plate.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij JODI, OXO, 2018, Raspberry Pi 3, custom keypads, wood.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij JODI, Wifi at the Studio [14-17], 2018, Print on acrylic glass.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij JODI, IDN, 2018 (overview). 
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij JODI,< / >, 2018, exhibition overview. 
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij JODI, Wifi, 2018, Raspberry Pi 3, wireless USB adapter, tripod.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. GeoGoo_GIcon, 2008
Digital video screengrab of website geogoo.net, 25 min

Shown here as part of the groupshow 'Shifting Optics II' at Upstream Gallery, March '15.

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij GeoGoo_GIcon, 2008
Digital video screengrab of website geogoo.net, 25 min

Shown here as part of the groupshow 'Shifting Optics II' at Upstream Gallery, March '15.

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij GeoGoo_GIcon, 2008
Digital video screengrab of website geogoo.net, 25 min.

Shown here as part of the groupshow 'Shifting Optics II' at Upstream Gallery, March '15.

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
JODI
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Biography

JODI - the art collective consisting of Joan Heemskerk (NL, 1968) and Dirk Paesmans (BE, 1965) - pioneered web-based art in the mid-1990s. Their work uses the widest possible variety of media and techniques, from installations, software and websites to performances and exhibitions. In a medium-specific way, they (de)construct and analyze the languages of new media: from visual aesthetics to interface elements, from codes and features to errors and viruses. They challenge the relationship between technology and users by subverting our expectations about the functionalities and conventions of the systems that we depend upon every day. 

Paesmans and Heemskerk have a background in video art and photography respectively. Both attended CADRE, the electronic arts laboratory at San Jose State University in California; Dirk Paesmans also studied with Nam June Paik at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. The duo works together since 1995. 

JODI's work is featured in most art historical volumes about electronic and media art, and has been exhibited widely at venues such as Documenta X, Kassel; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Bonner Kunstverein and Artothek, Bonn; InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Eyebeam, New York; and Museum of the Moving Image, New York, among many others. They received a 1999 Webby Award in the category Net Art. In 2014, JODI was awarded the inaugural Prix Net Art Award by Rhizome, a leading art organization dedicated to born-digital art and culture affiliated with the New Museum in New York.

 


jodi.org - artists website

 

joid.org - archive of work reviews

 

Exhibitions

GLITCH

1 Dec '23 - 17 Mar '24

REBOOT by Nieuwe Instituut and LIMA

7 Oct '23 - 1 Apr '24

Art Basel 2021 | 25 years of JODI

24 Sep - 26 Sep '21

Art Basel Online Viewing Rooms

19 Jun - 27 Jun '20

The New MoMA

21 Oct '19 - 21 Oct '20

We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces

30 Mar - 30 Jun '20

Calculated Chance

25 Apr - 29 Jun '19

Open Space

18 May '19 - 1 Mar '20

WEB-RETRO

12 Mar - 9 Jun '19

Freedom of Movement

25 Nov '18 - 17 Mar '19

Show #32 Video Game Art 1979-2005

19 Oct '18 - 12 Jan '19

< / >

13 Oct - 10 Nov '18

Glitch Art

21 Sep '18 - 13 Jan '19

Show#31

1 May - 30 Sep '18

Difference Engine

29 Jun - 10 Aug '18

JODI: OXO

7 Feb - 23 Apr '18

Electronic Superhighway

29 Jan - 15 May '16

Shifting Optics II

20 Mar - 25 Apr '15

JODI: Street Digital

31 Mar - 20 May '12

World Wide Wrong

27 Aug - 22 Oct '05

Defunct

29 Apr - 1 May '04

transmediale.02 go public!

5 Feb - 24 Feb '02

Words and Things

26 Oct - 22 Dec '01

net_condition

23 Sep '99 - 27 Feb '00

Documenta X

21 Jun - 28 Sep '97

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