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ASDFG (asdfg.jodi.org) (1999) is one of JODI’s early web-based works. It uses HTML - the simplest and most common computer language found on the web - that creates a glitchy animation of flickering black and white pages filled with code. The web browser will continuously be redirected from web page to web page with strange-looking URLs. When consulting the browser history, all the sites that were visited appear in the list and produce a pattern of the series of URLs. Like this, JODI infiltrates your browser and animates its history page
With their participatory work \/\/iFi_node#5 (broom) (2018), JODI draws attention to the pervasive infiltration of geolocation software into everyday life by allowing visitors to track cell phone signals in the surrounding area. Users are asked to log in to a Wi-Fi network via nodes installed in the exhibition space, which serve as omnipresent reminders that visitors are being surveilled. Once connected, viewers see nearby cell phones represented by different brand names, codes, colors, and shapes. Here, JODI employs a geolocation technology similar to the one Google uses to provide live visit information, wait times, and estimated visit duration for local businesses. With \/\/iFi, the user becomes simultaneously the monitor and the surveilled.