A collective formed by internet artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, the work on jodi.org is based on a mixture of computer glitches, modified computer games, screen grabs, and conceptual in-jokes.
The site serves up a randomly selected piece with each visit, much of it mimmiking the effects of a computer gone haywire. At first, much of the work may appear pretty inaccessible, but there’s often some method to the madness. Their piece wwwwwwwww.jodi.org is a good case in point. it may appear as a meaningless jumble, but the HTML code underpinning it contains ASCII-art diagrams of hydrogen bombs.
Over the years their work has gone through a number of distinct phases, from the earlier work exploiting computer glitches to more recent work based around screen grabs taken while working or playing computer games. Composite Club is an example of this more recent work, containing a series of pieces that juxtapose PlayStation 2 games with video footage.
Believe it or not, they won a Webby award back in 1999, but blotted their copybook by calling the assembled masses “Ugly corporate sons-of-bitches” during the acceptance speech and tossing the trophy to the audience.
Class.