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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). She 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.orgin 2012.

Her interactive installations include "Above the Fold" (Halsey Institute College of Charleston, 2014) "The Unemployed" a data visualization at Disseny Hub Museum (Barcelona, 2011), "The Blackest Spot," (Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angles, 2008), and "Trigger" (Pace University, New York, 2005).

Her net art projects are "Spine Sonnet," 2011 (commissioned by LACMA), "Lines of Life," (http://www.linesoflife.net) 2010 (commissioned by terminalapsu.org), "Without A Trace," (http://turbulence.org/Works/without_a_trace/) 2009 (commissioned by turbulence.org). Other net art projects include Ghost City" (ghostcity.com) an ever changing poetic meditation on the urban environment, urbanfragments.net, allthenewsthatsfittoprint.net, talking-walls.com and disembodiedvoices.com.

Recently she has been making iPhone/iPad apps. Her five apps “Urban Rhythms,” “Spine Sonnet,” “Art Swipe” and "4 Square" are available for free in the App Store.

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.