Performing the Web with JODI, Jeff Crouse & Aaron Meyers
| Nov ’09 |
| 20 |
| 8:00 pm |
Bringing together net art pioneers such as JODI with emerging practitioners from Eyebeam’s studios like senior fellow Jeff Crouse, “Performing the Web” will feature performances including JODI’s ongoing performance project, folksomy.alpha, which remixes the comments and video responses of YouTube users, and Jeff Crouse’s “The World Series of ‘Tubing T”, an augmented reality card game in which players compete against one another by selecting and presenting their “best” YouTube video clips.
JODI, or JODI.org, is the pioneering net art collective of Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. Since the mid-1990s they have created original artworks for the Internet, as well as software art and computer game modification. Their early work often used the tactic of mimicking computer glitches and viruses as an aesthetic or humorous device. JODI’s work has been included in many international exhibitions and festivals, including Documenta X.
Jeff Crouse is a senior fellow at Eyebeam. He makes parodies of technology in the form of software, websites, and installations. Jeff’s previous work includes YouThreebe, a YouTube triptych creator; Invisible Threads, a virtual jeans factory in Second Life; and James Chimpton, a robotic monkey that interviewed the artists of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. He is currently developing BoozBot, a bar tending robot/puppet; and DeleteCity, a Wordpress plug-in that finds and republishes content that has been taken down from sites such as Flickr and YouTube. His work has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Futuresonic festival in Manchester, UK, the DC FilmFest, and the Come Out and Play Festival in Amsterdam.
Aaron Meyers is a designer and programmer using generative strategies in the creation of software and moving image. Since earning his MFA at the USC Interactive Media Division in 2007, Meyers worked in the now-defunct Yahoo Design Innovation Team, taught classes at UCLA Design|Media Arts and continues to work on a variety of interactive projects for diverse clients that have included Digg, Radiohead, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Presented by Eyebeam.
Performance Nov. 20 at 8pm
Exhibition on view Nov. 19 – 22, 12-6pm
Tickets: $10 at www.eyebeam.org
