"In a sense, artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans (collaborating as JODI since 1994) are the Dadaists of Internet art: Like those early members of the avant-garde, their work employs strategies of rupture and subversion to create an estrangement effect, jarring viewers for a moment out of their everyday lives online." Margaret Sundell, ArtForum
An innocent visit to www.jodi.org brings immediate, alarming results: Mini browser windows, each completely black except for the standard white menu bar, manically proliferate on your desktop; they'll persist until you close your Internet browser completely.
Does www.jodi.org still stand up as a seminal piece of net art? Or is it simply a virus? Does the work reveal something mysterious about the hidden programming that lies beneath the smooth surface of corporate software? And what does Jodi's work tell us about our Net condition - the complex online world we increasingly inhabit?
