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  Seen Read Drawn Heard
2006



SEEN READ DRAWN HEARD presents drawings and photographs from the news as a sequence of animated images.

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  More Real Than Now
2005



MORE REAL THAN NOW explores the vignettes, ebbs, flows and narratives that emerge from the relationships we have with urban spaces. Black-and-white cityscapes morph into images enlivened by splashes of color and sound. The piece evokes the transient nature of urban space, and our equally fleeting and shifting perceptions of it.

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  all the news thats fit to print
2006



ALL THE NEWS THATS FIT TO PRINT uses the daily New York Times as its point of departure. It explores the relationship between headline images and texts in both the print and online versions of the newspaper. Headlines and images from July 2005 - July 2006 have been collected and are presented here as a constantly changing random sequence of image and text. The new juxtapositions become wrong, sad, funny, inexplicable, and often to the point. The headlines and images are presented with a scan of the front page of the paper in order to reference the original print context and its inevitable digital fragmentation.

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  talking walls
2005



Talking-Walls is a dynamic website exploring the visual language of wall and street markings.

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  ghostcity
1997-2006



Ghost City is an ever changing website. It is a virtual city that has become an archive of changing web technologies. Ghost city has no physical space or real time beyond the space and time of the viewer's interaction with the screen. It explores the capacity of mediated images to trigger memory and reverie. Ghost City focuses on the representation of the city by the mass media. It uses the space of the web as a sculptural space, allowing viewers to interact with animated graphics to delve deeper and deeper into an imaginary city.

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  disembodied voices
2004



Disembodied Voices is a meditation on the nature of public space. It is a visual representation of how different bodies communicate across space, using cell phones as a metaphor for the new translocal of connected, yet disembodied voices, linked across space invisibly - forming an unseen network of wanderers, always within reach yet nowhere in sight. This site illustrates the collision of the personal/private and public space. As the line between public and private continues to blur intimate transactions have become audible to anyone within earshot. Where we are, in a sense, no longer matters since we are always connected. Using the cell phone as a metaphor, this project connects users and investigates the changing nature of public space into a wirelessly connected translocal, where each person is a node in the network.

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  crowds and power
2002



Crowds and Power uses mediated images to explore the relationship between space, memory, and territory. Windows containing image fragments emphasize the displacement of individuals and the transformation of urban space where large gatherings, demonstrations, and struggles are represented. By juxtaposing charged images with theoretical and philosphical texts about the nature of crowds this website explores internal and external conflicts.

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  random paths
2001



Random Paths is a self contained project that functions as a travelogue. It is about sequence and memory and how different groupings of images and passages of poetic texts can create different associations. Random Paths is meant to be circular and hopefully upon each viewing new meanings will be generated.

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  bio

Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations. Solo exhibitions include Pace University's Digital Gallery (2005); The Laguna Art Museum (2004-05); Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2002); Deep River, Los Angeles (2001). Her net art projects have shown world wide since 1997 in festivals and exhibitions such as Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; 9th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo (2006); Arte Nuevo Interactive, Mexico; ACCEA, Armenia; Prog:Me, Rio de Janeiro (2005); File, Brazil; Festival du Noveau Cinema, Montreal; Siggraph, Los Angeles; International Festival of Electronic Art, Argentina; Cosign, Croatia (2004); New Forms Festival, Vancouver; Recontres Internationales, Berlin (2003); Whitney Museum Artport (2002); XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002); Art Future, Taiwan (2000); Net_Condition, ZKM (1999); Film + Arch.3, Graz (1997). Her website Ghost City (www.ghostcity.com) begun in 1997 is an ever changing meditation on the urban environment. After receiving a 2004 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs (COLA) Grant, she converted her website Disembodied Voices, (www.disembodiedvoices.com) into a 5 projector interactive installation. A complete bio and documentation of other projects can be seen at www.jodyzellen.com.

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