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 Jody Zellen Ghost City USA 2000 “Ghost City” is a website that 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. “Ghost City” is a labyrinthine environment through which viewers can navigate, either following the linear narrative that unfolds by moving from page to page, or they can delve into the non-linear chaos of random links. Each space is made up of appropriated images and texts. 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. Rather than present static images, “Ghost City” is a collage of moving parts. It is a pulsating grid of flashing images that loop indefinitely. The viewer is an urban wanderer moving through the site, step by step, page by page. One moves forward and back retracing ones steps within the urban grid, discovering new spaces and new meanings. “Ghost City” is about memory, and about traveling through time and space. The time is infinite. The space is finite. Yet the time and space of “Ghost City” metaphorically relate to the experience of the city where people walk and talk and interact. Within the confines of “Ghost City” visitors can pause and think and move backwards and forwards. “Ghost City” is a city of fragments. A memory. A ghost of reality. A ghost city. Jody Zellen lives in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Art Resources (New York, 2000); Nexus Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, 1999); Jan Kesner Gallery (Los Angeles, 1998); Post Gallery, (Los Angeles, 1997 and 1998); Mesa College Art Gallery (San Diego, 1997); Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica, 1996); SF Camerawork (San Francisco, 1995); The Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne, 1995); The Dorothy Goldeen Gallery (Santa Monica, 1993). Group exhibitions include shows at: Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Terrain, San Francisco; The Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington Beach Art Center, The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, and the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach. Recent Public commissions include a sidewalk project for LAX and a wall mural for the Pan Pacific Community Center to be finished in 2001. |
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