Jody Zellen | USA |
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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.
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 is currently working on two public art projects for the City of Los Angeles and was a recipient of a 2004 Cultural Affairs (COLA) Grant. Recent exhibitions included include: \"Futuresonic 04,\" Manchester England; \"Images Festival,\" Toronto, Canada, 2004; \"Downtown Digital,\" Pace Digital Gallery, NY, 2003; \"Day Job,\" New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2002; the XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2002; \"Urban Festval,\" Zagreb, Croatia, 2002; \"Artfuture2000,\" Taipei; \"International Biennial of Architecture, Florence\"; and \"Net_Condition,\" ZKM, 1999. Her website \"Ghost City\" (www.ghostcity.com) begun in 1997 is an ever changing, poetic meditation on the urban environment. In addition to \"Ghost City\" her other web projects include \"Random Paths\" ( www.randompaths.com); \"Visual Chaos\" (www.visualchaos.org). Her website \"Crowds and Power\" was the October 2002 portal for the Whitney Museum\'s artport (http://artport.whitney.org). \"Disembodied Voices\" (www.disembodiedvoices.com) is her latest web project. It has recently been coverted into a 5 projector interactive installation.
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