A l’intérieur du premier clip réalisé « à la maison » par Hector Di Napoli pour les JOKO se cache un tube en puissance. Mais JOKO c’est qui, c’est quoi ? Simple. JOKO, c’est la rencontre de deux jeunes strasbourgeois sur les bancs du Conservatoire. D’un côté, Iris Di Napoli, la voix du duo, auteur et mélodiste, dont l’enfance a été bercée par la voix d’une mère artiste lyrique et les accords d’un père compositeur pianiste et chanteur ; de l’autre, Arthur Vonfelt, multi-instrumentiste, passionné des musiques afro-américaines, compositeur et arrangeur aux multiples facettes, aussi doué dans l’écriture de chansons que dans l’habillage sonore.
Peu de temps après leur rencontre, les deux musiciens décident de mettre en forme les « a capelas » enregistrés secrètement par Iris sur son téléphone. Leurs démos suscitent rapidement l’intérêt du label Pain Surprises qui font raisonner leur premier titre sur les antennes de Radio Nova. Leurs influences sont variées : de Nils Frahm à Lykke Li en passant par les Beatles ou même John Coltrane ; sans oublier The Do et leur rencontre avec Dan Levy dont les conseils bienveillants orienteront beaucoup leurs choix pour la réalisation de leur 1er EP.
Et pour leur premier clip le réalisateur Hector Di Napoli a su dessiner (avec les moyens du bord) les contours d’un couple dont les sentiments parfois contraires traversent les époques, les souvenirs, les joies et les passions. Construit en deux parties, ce petit film aux allures de court-métrage nous montre toute l’étendue esthétique du duo, tantôt acoustique, tantôt électronique, oscillant entre la mélancolie et la légèreté…
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![The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/196860070_809654653271496_8575323350180795315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=vTxo9sIcXKoAX9hx_qt&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=49f4362bfd5b774cd8bd8725423937c4&oe=616EC889 "The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021")
![Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172246940_241775834361086_412793993617799165_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=NsdBJGeJdKAAX9xoVs-&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=bad74dc95a374a1a3a389075b9ada30e&oe=616FA7B5 "Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan")
