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Jody Zellen (link to www.jodyzellen.com)

Jody Zellen (b. 1961) is a Los Angeles based artist who works in many media making interactive installations, mobile apps, net art, animations, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artist's books. She employs media-generated representations as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations that combine text and image.

Zellen earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1983 and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1989. She also hold a MPS degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (2009).

Her interactive installations include "The Unemployed" a data visualization presented at Disseney Hub Museum in Barcelona (2011), "The Blackest Spot," exhibited at Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles (2008) and "Trigger," commissioned by Pace University, New York (2005)

LINKS: http://www.dhub-bcn.cat/en/blog/ioi-els-sentits-de-les-maquines-unemployed http://fringexhibitions.com/sept08_2.html Fringe Exhibitions http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/zellen/jody_zellen.html

In addition to making interactive installations Zellen also makes net.art receiving commission to produce these projects: "Spine Sonnet," 2011 (commissioned by Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Lines of Life," 2010 (commissioned by terminalapsu.org) "Without a Trace,"  2009 (commissioned by turbulence.org)

LINKS:

http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/spine-sonnet-jody-zellen-on-steve-wolfe

http://www.linesoflife.net http://www.terminalapsu.org/category/commissions

http://turbulence.org/Works/without_a_trace

Most recently she has been making iPhone and iPad apps. He five apps: Spine Sonnet, Urban Rhythms, Art Swipe, 4 Square and Episodic are available for free in the app store.

LINKS:

http://www.jodyzellen.com/apps

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/urban-rhythms/id466124689?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spine-sonnet/id422871445?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/art-swipe/id493872473?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/4-square/id517144208?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/episodic/id629326337?ls=1&mt=8

Zellen was awarded a Center for Cultural Innovation Artistic Innovation Grant in 2011 and a Mid Career Artist's Fellowship from the California Community Foundation calfund.org in 2012.

LINK: http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2012/jody-zellen

Zellen recently curated the exhibition "Poetic Codings" for the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The show was later presented at the Boston Cyber Arts Gallery (April 27 - June 2, 2013). This was one of the first exhibitions in the United States to present iPad art projects.

Zellen has been writing art reviews for more than twenty years. Her writings appear regularly in ArtScene, Art LTD, Afterimage and Artillery Magazine.

References:

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jul/3/art-your-pocket-3-sensor-driven-ipad-and-iphone-ar/
 * Art in Your Pocket 3 by Jonah Brucker-Cohen Rhizome.org Tuesday July 3, 2012

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-19/entertainment/ca-60453_1_time-warp
 * Time Warp by Susan Kandel Los Angeles Times April 19, 1996

http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/october02.shtml/
 * Whitney Museum Gate Page October 2002

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at020514jody_zellen_monique_
 * KCRW Art Talk May 14, 2002

http://newmediafix.net/aminima/jodyZellen.pdf
 * AMINIMA Article on Jody Zellen