By messing around with their computer desktop or playing video games with no intention of winning, they highlight not only the behavioural patterns of computer users but also the intentions of the computer engineers, games designers and people who market the lifestyle to us. JODI revel in both failure and playfulness as an expression of childlike resistance to a bureaucratic world. Yet to see JODI simply as anarchic virtuosos belies the sophistication of their work.
The works in Computing 101B share a fixation with surfaces, from the Macintosh desktop to the cyborg skin of Max Payne. Their work is a deliberate attempt to express their humanity (warts and all) through the computer, delving far beneath the surface of the information age to reveal the human and the absurd lurking underneath.
The works in Computing 101B share a fixation with surfaces, from the Macintosh desktop to the cyborg skin of Max Payne. Their work is a deliberate attempt to express their humanity (warts and all) through the computer, delving far beneath the surface of the information age to reveal the human and the absurd lurking underneath.
