JOAN HEEMSKERK (NL, 1968)
Residency period: April-June 2019
AIS.rec : virtual ghost ships \_____/
AMALIA SAIL BASILEA~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\_Sailing Vessel_/
MORGANA V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Sailing Vessel_/
HOEDIC III ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Pleasure Craft_/
TATTOO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Sailing Vessel_/
SHAYA MOYA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\_Sailing Vessel_/
GENTIANE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Sailing Vessel_/
AQUAVISTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Pleasure Craft_/
SQUALUS2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\_Sailing Vessel_/
HOEDIC II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_Sailing Vessel_/
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These waters blue that round you lap
What sea, what shore
The gulf, the rock
Meet the wave
Like a ship entangled in ice
Canals of contradiction
Change your lakes to ocean
Seaborne ships, by thousands, lay below
On rock, and shore
Where nothing, save the waves
As if the sea made even the tongue more free
Cross the blue deep and white foam
Water with a slight shade of Blue
What signifies the route?
I collected AIS data from ships through the internet and
translated this information.
Where the globalisation of transport routes is used for a
new world view
Where vessels are positioned, resulting in a fictional
geography
Where continents take different forms as a result of the
global shipping data
>> AUQUAY.com
OK : – ALL RIGHT, READY. THE SHIP’S CARGO HAS BEEN
UNLOADED. OKAY > AU QUAY > ON SHORE > FINISHED
As member of the art collective JODI, with Dick Paesmans, who pioneered net.art, Joan Heemskerk is among the first artists to have explored and subverted the conventions of the Internet, computers and video games, disrupting their language including visual aesthetics, interface elements, commands, errors and code. JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilize the relationship between computer technology and its users. Their work uses a wide variety of media and techniques, from installations, software and websites to performances and exhibitions.