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403 Forbidden (2000)

After we created an identical copy of Jodi’s website, a curator mistakenly identified us as the artist duo and invited us to produce a new work for the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Rather than correcting the misunderstanding, we produced a piece in Jodi’s style titled 403 Forbidden. The work incorporated elements characteristic of their aesthetic—green text, transparent grid backgrounds, broken images, illegible characters, and various browser glitches. The five pages each referenced a common server-error code: 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found, 501 Not Implemented, 503 Service Unavailable, and 401 Authorization Required.

 

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Eva & Franco Mattes, Forbidden 403

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Forbidden 403

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Forbidden 403

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Forbidden 403

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Forbidden 403

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Eva & Franco Mattes, Jodi

Byung-Chul Han, Shanzhai.