Primera Edición - 1999

Segunda Edición - 2003

Tercera Edición - 2004

Cuarta Edición - 2005

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Ghost City (www.ghostcity.com), 1997-2006

Ghost City is an ever changing website that was begun in 1997 and is constantly updated. 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.

All The News Thats Fit To Print (www.allthenewsthatsfittoprint.net) 2006

ALL THE NEWS THATS FIT TO PRINT uses the daily New York Times as its point of departure. It explores the relationship between how the news and the images that accompany headline stories are presented online and inprint. The front page image usually disappears online. The headlines are often different. The lines between what is hard news and what is filler blur. This project uses the headlines and front page images from the print version of the New York Times located online, and presents them as a random sequence of image and text. The juxtapositions become wrong, sad, funny, inexplicable, and often to the point. The headline and image are presented in conjunction with the daily paper's image. One is drawn to the initial layout, the language of the headline and to the sensationalism of the image.

More Real Than Now (flash animation/DVD)
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.

Talking-Walls.com (www.talking-walls.com) 2005

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

Disembodied Voices (www.disembodiedvoices.com), 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.

Crowds and Power (www.ghostcity.com/crowdsandpower), 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.

Random Paths (www.randompaths.com), 2001-02

Random Paths is a poetic web project that functions as a travelogue. It is about sequence and memory and how different groupings of images and passages of texts can create different associations. Random Paths is meant to be circular and hopefully upon each viewing new meanings will be generated. By following hyper links viewers move through specific groupings of images. At random instances new windows appear, purposely interrupting the flow of information.

Visual Chaos (www.visualchaos.org), 2000

Visual Chaos is a short web work that that explores the idea of chaos on the web. 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. The images are culled from various print media sources. The texts are either found passages from urban theory or specifically written poetic musings on the city. The site explores ideas relating to an abstracted idea of the city. The images depict shadows and bodies. It explores the ideas of being swallowed by the city. Visual Chaos explores grids as a metaphor for the many different paths one can journey down in the modern city.

Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California who 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 (2005); 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 Arte Nuevo Interactive, Mexico; ACCEA International Media Festival, 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 (200); 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.