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wwwwwww.jodi.org is a web-based artwork by JODI, launched in 1995, in the early days of the World Wide Web. The work is typical for JODI, whose artistic practice is characterized by chaos and non-functional designs that reveal the fundamental characteristics of the net. wwwwwww.jodi.org is JODI’s first website and probably their most famous, or infamous. The website consists of a maze of pages, written in HTML code, that are full of dead ends but also seem to be full of secrets. For example, the first page consists of unreadable green text (code) on a black background. Only when you see the source code of the page do the signs appear to form a diagram of a nuclear bomb. It is not strange that the website is regularly seen as the work of hackers. Through the chaos and confusion that JODI arouses with this website, they emphasize the dangers that the web can bring, what can be hidden in code, and how you can be misled. [source: digitalcanon.nl/?artworks=jodi-joan-heemskerk-dirk-paesmans#list]

• Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans (Netherlands/Spain/USA)
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  <a href=”http://remote.aec.at”>RemoteC</a> <href=”http://www.documenta.de”>DocumentaX</a>
  <a href=”http://wwwmedipolis.de/videofest”>Transmedia</a> <a href=”http://www.adaweb.comicontext/jodi”>adaweb</a> <a href=”http://www.irationatorg/cern”>CERN</a>
  <a href=”http://www.connect-arte.com”>ConnectArte</a> <a href=”http://wwwslate.com”>Slate</a>
  <a href=”http://www.xs4all.n1/—w139″>W139</a>
  <a href=”http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/wwwart”>WWWartCenter</a> <a href=”http://dewevug.actensdm/home.htm”>ISOM</a> <a href=”http://berlimicf.de/—netlab”>netlab</a>
  <a href=”http://www.tuesday.nl/media”>artSavers</a> <a href=”http://csw.art.p1/9756″>CCAW</a>
  <a href=”http://www.b.shutte.de/art-bag/contd”>contd</a> <a href=”http://www.dds.nl/nietdekunstvlaai”>Kunstvlaai</a> <a href=”http://www.hip97.n1″>HIP97</a>
  <a href=-“http://www.ljudmila.org”>Beauty &theEast</a> <—UNKNOWN FILE</a>
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JODI is a collective of two artists, Joan Heemskerk (1968, Kaatsheuvel) and Dirk Paesmans (1965, Brussels), who pioneered web-based art in the mid-90s. After they met at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, where they studied photography and video, they moved to Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) to learn about digital media. It was in Silicon Valley that they became familiar with the internet. Since 1995 they have been working together as JODI, creating art on the World Wide Web. Although they are most famous for their web-based work, they also work in a wide variety of media and techniques like software, performances, installations, and exhibitions. [source: digitalcanon.nl/?artworks=jodi-joan-heemskerk-dirk-paesmans#list]