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Adjectives commonly employed to describe the work of artist
collaborators Joan
Heemskerk and
Dirk Paesmans include bewildering, dysfunctional,
humorous, and entertaining.
The streams of chaotic colors, flashing texts, and raw computer code that assault visitors to jodi.org soon eliminate any hope of a coherent plan or clear navigation through the Web site. Visitors are left with the option of swimming playfully in a sea of pulsing buttons and scrolling ascii or pondering such philosophical questions as, "has my computer crashed or is the site supposed to do that?" more--> |
jodi screen page from the 100/cache pages |
Given their subversive reputation, jodi.org's image-map of Web sites related to their own--a conventional node-and-line diagram of hypertext links--looks surprisingly ordinary. In a drop-down window adjacent to this diagram, however, the viewer can peek at the html scripting corresponding to those links. For those not familiar with html code, the effect is a bit like opening a bathroom cabinet to reveal the plumbing. |
 node of links from jodi.org map |
The links on jodi's map include a number of artistically inclined Web sites that may not be well known to American viewers, including England's Future Sound of London, Japan's Shift, Park 4DTV of Amsterdam, and Floating Point Unit. |
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