Text and Image Works: Jody Zellen
Title: Text and Image Works
URL: http://www.jodyzellen.com
i would propose to present a selection of my net art projects that are text and image based.
ANIMATIONS:
a_life, 2008
http://jodyzellen.com/a_life/index.html
A Life follows the path of animated figures through a drawn environment,
Seen, Read + Drawn
http://jodyzellen.com/drawings_ani.html
Seen, Read + Drawn combines found and drawn imagery from the daily newspaper as a point of departure to comment on the representation of world events. 9' 35", 2007
More Real Than Now
http://jodyzellen.com/morereal2.html
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. , 3'38", 2005
NET ART:
http://www.ghostcity.com, 1997-2008
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. 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
http://www.allthenewsthatsfittoprint.net, 2006-7
allthenewsthatsfittoprint.net is an interactive website that uses the daily New York Times as its point of departure. It explores the relationship between headline images and texts, and between the print and online versions of the newspaper. Headlines and images from July 2005 – July 2006 have been collected and are presented as a constantly changing random sequence of image and text. The new juxtapositions may be 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.
http://www.talkingwalls.com, 2005
Talking-Walls is a dynamic website exploring the visual language of wall and street markings.
http://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.