"In a trance, the body becomes a medium. An autonomous play with signs, images, impulses, and vibration." - Arjen Mulder from Understanding Media Theory
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesman's jodi.org formed a user-unfriendly virtual art piece based on a mature command code called window.open(). Within the website, the operation introduces one pop-up window on the command of the user visiting the site. Thereafter, a looping process of infinite duration forces windows to proceed and eventually 'take over' the user's monitor until a force quit or computer restart occurs (from the user).
The viewers/users of jodi.org are in a state of hypermediation or as Mulder claims, "in a direct connection to a medium." Users of the Internet have been subdued into a digital trance, aware of it's 'proper' use and function as a navigational and informational tool. Therefore, the Internet as a media becomes transparent and begins to "satisfies a deep desire in media users: the desire not to have to use media." jodi.org breaks this transparency, allowing the user to recognize the Internet as a process of order/disorder, power/powerless, software/hardware, and zero/one. Resulting in exposing and subjecting the user's relationship to human-computer interaction as active, not passive and that the computer (as a medium) will not perpetually exist as an "obedient machine."
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