An iconic 404 maze by JODI, where error pages become material for composing text, code and disorientation.
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Deep down, there on the back of the page, at the source, a situation is defined: the Internet is no more than a big text. But what happens when this text emerges, when it occupies the surface of the screen? From screen to screen, the letter migrates, de-contextualising itself and posing language as an aesthetic problem. Given that, one asks: is this literature or not?
A classic of early net art: identity, sampling and piracy as a way of writing on and against the web.
Syntax pushed to its limits: a score of broken HTML and language where music and markup collide.
Another JODI detour: menus, options and interface ghosts that sabotage the logic of the clickable button.
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Alphanumeric cascades where letters behave like pure signal, drifting across the screen in serial sequences. Formerly at: http://m9ndfukc.com/dir_seq/aLphanumer1kl/.
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Another iteration of the same project, stressing repetition, compression and the noise of networked text. Formerly at: http://m9ndfukc.com/v0r0m_3k0r/.
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The project’s root: an entry point to an ecosystem where code-words and glitches become the main characters. Formerly at: http://m9ndfukc.com/
A long, almost unreadable string that makes of the URL itself a textual field and of navigation a form of concrete poetry.
A collective exploration of ASCII as image and language, continuing a long history of typewriter and screen-based visual poetry.