JODI: Street Digital

The latest issue of the Millennium Film Journal, MFJ No. 56, with a focus on “material practice” came out during Superstorm Sandy. It includes my review of JODI’s show at the Museum of the Moving Image, Street Digital, curated by Michael Connor. JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmansare) have been heroes of mine since I first encountered their net.art in the 1990s and I was so excited to experience a full museum show of their recent work in NYC. Here is a favorite recent project of theirs: Folksomy – a crowd-sourced collection of videos of “people doing strange things with computers.” “Folksomy” is a misspelling of the term “folksonomy” (which is a term that refers to a the process of tagging things on the Internet by a large cross section of people thereby creating a common denominator of semantic order). If you feel lost, CLICK HERE.