Ed Halter Takes a Look Back at the Work of the Early Internet-Art Collective JODI

Ed Halter, critic in residence in the Film and Electronic Arts Program, revisits the early days of internet art: “Two decades ago, when the World Wide Web was just beginning to become commercialized, online artists concerned themselves more with the new formal properties of the internet than its meager content, then only fitfully user-generated and as-yet unorganized by the dominance of Google’s search algorithms,” Halter writes. “The audacious early work of Netherlands-based collective JODI exemplifies this moment. Their quasi-anonymous moniker derives from the identities of its two members, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, who began collaborating in 1995; by the decade’s end, JODI would become one of the most recognizable names of the first generation of internet art.”

Post Date: 06-09-2020