Joan Heemskerk

Residency report
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_/   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \_____/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /\/\/   NR.13 REFLECT READ WRITE DRAW LOOK COPY PASTE   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  

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Biography
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.