install.exe - Jodi exhibition in Basel @plug in

[anna balint]

install.exe/Jodi
Opening
Sept. 18th, 7pm
Introduction by Tilman Baumgärtel and Annette Schindler

Exhibition
in [plug in] from September 18. till October 27. 2002
Exhibition-Finissage and Publication-Opening October 26. 2002, 9pm as a
part of VIPER 22 Internationa Festival fro Film Video and New Media

They simulate error messages, viruses, computer crashes. They overflow
your screen with never ending streams of colorful hieroglyphs. They
revitalize dead computer languages. Jodi's work is about what lies
behind the well known surface of the browser, it\19s about the code. And
it is about the dialectics between humans and technology, between
controlling and beeing controlled: Jodi lets us experience these things,
makes us navigate though irritating systems and become aware of our own
blindness. Jodi finds a poignant visual language for these realities of
life. A language which comes across not only for computer nerds but also
for all of those of us who ever sat down at a computer.
Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, Barcelona) were among the first
ones, who used the browser as an artistic tool. They succeeded in
developing a precise artistic language with digital means and to create
some substantial content with it. No one had set an example for them.
They were the ones to set standards and provide the reference.
With install.exe Jodi sabotages the supposed certainty that their art
can only take place on the internet: They present an exhibition in the
physical space of [plug in] as well as a print publication. For orthodox
approaches to net art this means breaking a taboo. For Jodi it's the
consequence of their disturbance-tactic.
Install.exe is the first comprehensive solo show of Jodis work, and
their first solo print publication. The project is a collaboration of
[plug in] Basel and network agent Tilman Baumgärtel from Berlin. As a
independent writer he publishes on media- and internet-culture and has
set standards on the mediation of netart with his two books net.art
Materialien zur Netzkunst, Nürnberg 1999 und net.art.2.0 \13 Neue
Materialien zur Netzkunst/new materials on net art, Nürnberg 2001.
The print publication is designed by the young Swiss designer Rafael
Koch in close collaboration with Jodi. Flipping though the pages, the
book will show only Jodi-images at first sight. Inside the fold out
image pages the texts are to be found: Contributions in english and
german from Annette Schindler and Waling Boers, Tilman Baumgärtel,
Frederic Madre, Pit Schulz, Florian Cramer and Josephine Bosma. The book
is edited by [plug in], Tilman Baumgärtel and BüroFriedrich and
published by Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel. 112 pages, colour
illustrations, CHFr. 38.-, Euro 26.- plus shipping.
Jodi and Tilman Baumgärtel will be present at the opening of the
exhibition. For further informations or to set um a date for an
interveiw please contact [plug in], Annette Schindler, tel +41-(0)61-283
6050, email: asch
Guided tours:
Deutsch: Sat, Sept. 21. 7pm and Sat, Oct. 12. 4pm
Espanol: Wed, Sept. 25, 8pm
Italiano: Wed, Oct. 9th, 8pm
Francais: Wed. Oct. 16th, 8pm
Englisch: Sat. Oct. 19th, 8pm
[plug in], St. Alban-Rheinweg 64, 4052 Basel, www.weallplugin.org
opening hours: Wed, 6pm-10pm; Thur \13 Sat, 6pm-8pm special opening hours
during Viper 22 \13 International Festival for Film Videoo and New Media,
Oct. 23 \13 27: daily noon - 8pm
install.exe / Jodi exhibition and publication have been generously
supported by: Kanton Basel-Stadt; Christoph Merian Foundation; Mondriaan
Foundation; Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation; Migros Kulturprozent and
Jacqueline Spengler Foundation, Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving
en bouwkunst
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Annette Schindler
[Plug in]
St. Alban-Rheinweg 64
CH - 4052 Basel
Tel: +41-61-283 60 50
Email: aschindler at iplugin.org