Blogspot - JODI & Cory Arcangel

Ever since the emergence of the internet, JODI has actively been creating net.art. By creating their own software they simulate computer crashes, viruses and error messages. With these projects they respond to the unwritten rules of the Internet and try to confront visitors with well designed interfaces and websites by showing the “ backbone” of internet technology. By the end of the 90’s, their attention shifts from computers to computer- and gamesoftware. Within the gaming culture, pre-programmed codes help the gamer to figure out the rules in order to simplify the game. JODI tackles these restrictions and simplifications with a certain scepticism. By relatively simple modifications, they show alternative applications and possibilities. Their interest in gaming culture is where they found a common ground with Cory Arcangel. This American artist has been interested in the relation between technology and culture. Cory Arcangel is well knows for his Nintendo game hacks and subversive reprogramming of abandoned and forgotten computersystems of the 70’s and 80’s.

Currently, JODI and Cory Arcangel tackle the new implications of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the new “buzzword”, in fashion since the emergence of a multitude of social networks on the Internet. This structure of online collaborations, wiki’s, blogs and other means of communication are considered the second wave of Internet based services and refers to an improved version of the World Wide Web, in which the user is free to make his or her own content. De possibilities to add content to a website gives rise to new questions about the level of freedom on the Internet to shape your own online space.
With Blogspot JODI and Cory Arcangel combine services and bandwidth of several Web 2.0 services like Blogger.com and Slide.com to give insight to the sheer number of possibilities of these sites. By using Blogger’s and Slide’s services they try once more to gain control over the way their content is presented. The playback of pre-programmed animations, and curious looking combinations are a playful way to break the burden of the standard lay-out packages offered by Web 2.0 services. By creating alternative combinations and using a multitude of datasources they create their own interpretations of what blogs and webspace should stand for: freedom in form and content.

Follow the hyperlink to visit the project at Blogspot

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