- published: 16 Sep 2010
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Jodi, or jodi.org, is a collective of two internet artists: Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium). Their background is in photography and video art; since the mid-1990s they started to create original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also turned to software art and artistic computer game modification. Since 2002, they have been in what has been called their "Screen Grab" period, making video works by recording the computer monitor's output while working, playing video games, or coding.
In more recent[when?] works, they modified old video games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, Jet Set Willy, and the latest, Max Payne 2 (2006) to create a new set of art games. Jodi's approach to game modification is comparable in many ways to deconstructivism in architecture, because they would disassemble the game to its basic parts, and reassemble it in ways that do not make intuitive sense. One of their more well-known modifications of Quake places the player inside a closed cube with swirling black-and-white patterns on each side. The pattern is the result of a glitch in the game engine discovered by the artists, presumably, through trial and error; it is generated live as the Quake engine tries, and fails, to visualize the interior of a cube with black-and-white checked wallpaper.
Actors: Bruce Resnik (miscellaneous crew), Chris Hayes (actor), Paul Sorvino (actor), Eddie Griffin (actor), Joe Piscopo (actor), Michael Paré (actor), Suzanne DeLaurentiis (producer), Erika Christensen (actress), Louis Lombardi (actor), Casey Nelson (actor), Brian Herzlinger (director), Brian Herzlinger (writer), Ralph Cole Jr. (actor), Shawn-Caulin Young (actor), Nate Geez (actor),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Toto Hoedi (director), Toto Hoedi (producer), Mark Olsen (producer), Henry Ambarita (producer), Nurmawati Sarigah (producer), Joko Arindo (producer), Fransisca (actress), Celine Diva (actress), Rio Destha (actor), Abigail San Giva Yee (actress), Frederika Cull (actress), Titania Aureli (actress), Bilqis Atari (actress), Arul Timothy (actor), Ajay Mohammad (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Gary Pollak (editor), Brian L. Tan (producer), Daniel Thron (writer), Daniel Thron (actor), Saad Hameed (miscellaneous crew), Jesse James Chisholm (actor), George Prado (miscellaneous crew), Katryna Shattuck (miscellaneous crew), Peter Plevritis (producer), Peter Plevritis (director), Sherwin Kuo (miscellaneous crew), Briana Hamilton (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Grace Folsom (actress), Lauren Rayner (producer), Lauren Rayner (director), Patrick McGowan (editor), Jill di Donato (writer), Catrin Lloyd-Bollard (actor),
Plot: BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE (a novel and mini-movie) is set in the still dangerous lower east side of NYC in the 1980s and tells the story of Jodi Plum, a figurative artist who falls into a circle of high class prostitutes. The novel questions the notion of being an artist -- its devastations, myths, cliches, as well as the commercialization of art in a world where everything is for sale.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Eric Roberts (actor), Jsu Garcia (actor), Peter Stormare (actor), Jsu Garcia (director), Jsu Garcia (producer), Jsu Garcia (writer), Sally Kirkland (actress), Dey Young (actress), Leigh Taylor-Young (actress), Eliza Roberts (actress), Jullian Dulce Vida (actor), Thomas J. Post (actor), Rick Ojeda (producer), Rick Ojeda (actor), Dylan Ramsey (actor),
Plot: Running from his mistakes, Jesus heads to Helper, Utah to reconnect with his mentor/teacher John-Roger's past. Through dreams and a Mystical book, he learns from his mentor's past-life mistakes. He realizes he must confront his own inner conflict, forgiving the past and self examining himself, he finds peace and reunites with his Mentor/teacher.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Justin De Leon (actor), Lex Bonife (writer), Lex Bonife (actor), Lex Bonife (writer), Jeff Luna (actor), Monti Parungao (director), Monti Parungao (writer), Monti Parungao (producer), Carlos Barrera (producer), Carlos Barrera (producer), Gary Parungao (editor), Franklin Jundak (producer), Jeffrey Espiritu (actor), Alexander 'Tsoknut' Castillo (actor), Ryan Idica (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Mark Kandborg (miscellaneous crew), Wes Miron (writer), Wes Miron (director), Katrina Beatty (editor), Katrina Beatty (producer), Ecko Goffic (actor), Stephen Locke (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Dave McKeon (actor), Margie McKeon (actor), Valentina Legkikh (writer), Valentina Thrift (director),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Joe Estevez (actor), Yoram Tal (editor), Nanette K. Martin (miscellaneous crew), Sonny Landham (actor), John Jabaley (actor), Alisa Christensen (actress), Daniel Shriver (actor), David Starzyk (actor), Patricia Skeriotis (actress), Steven Orich (composer), Tzury Mimon (director), Tzury Mimon (writer), Ken Clement (actor), Tzury Mimon (producer), Dena Rae Hayess (actress),
Plot: After Danielle is fired from her job as a sensationalist TV reporter, she goes undercover to do a freelance series to expose what she can learn about the escort "industry". Some of the things which she encounters, however, jeopardize her relationships and her health.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, brothel, brothel-madam, cocaine, dominatrix, drugs, erotica, female-nudity, independent-film, interview