[rohrpost] Jody Zellen featured by the Archive of Digital Art

[Image Science]

Jody ZELLEN featured by The ARCHIVE of DIGITAL ART
www.digitalartarchive.at 

Jody ZELLEN is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and author working
within the field of digital poetry, imagery and hypermediacy. She has
had exhibitions around the world in museums and festivals such as ISEA
(Vancouver), FILE (Sao Paolo) and Web Biennial (Istanbul). In addition,
her digital drawings were published in several publications such as
Without a trace (2010), where she analyses image production in
information media.

Johanna DRUCKER: Jody Zellen embraces media as her art form, focusing
on both the images and processes that surround and penetrate our current
lives and environments. The very methods of mediation often serve as the
starting point for her practice.

C.T. FUNKHOUSER: Zellens combinations [of digital texts and images]
broaden and deliver a type of interconnected awareness that singular
representations cannot.

ZELLEN is known for her intermedia work - combining text, image and
sound to investigate the pictorial conditions of society within the
fields of animation, digital images and drawing. Fragmentation, remixing
and modification of texts and images are central in her installations
and user devices and challenge participants to question their perception
mechanisms. Her apps invite users to actively participate in her art
works allowing them to experiment with new forms of digitisation and
question the representation of knowledge within the medium itself.

In one of her latest works News Wheel (2015), an application for mobile
devices that coins random phrases of current headlines from nine
different newspapers, the user can stop the wheel and modify the result
for her own desire. In Time Jitters (2014), digital photographs,
paintings, animations and iPad apps are arranged within a panoramatic
view to question the image overload in contemporary society.

Find out more about Jody ZELLEN, her exhibitions, publications and
recent art works on her ADA profile page:
https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/zellen.html


COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on Jody ZELLEN and hundreds of
other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists
themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The new ADA
web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works
descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the
documentation and analysis of digital art.

To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or
curated exhibitions are required for scholars to become members of the
ADA community. Interested scholars and artists may apply for an account
here:

www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html 

COLLABORATIVE ANALYSIS AND PROACTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 
With the support of two large international grants, the archive has
been transferred into a Web 2.0 environment. The aim is to provide
community features and user-oriented applications to enable a collective
scientific exchange between artists, researchers, engineers and the
public to foster interdisciplinary and global collaborative analysis and
a proactive process of knowledge transfer.

ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology. 

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER,
Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO,
Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki  FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG,
Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken
RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH,  Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN,
Rafael  LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY,
Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS,  SOMMERER &
MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON &  CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL,
et al.

ADVISORY BOARD: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.


ADA team:

Oliver GRAU, Janina HOTH (Editor, Community Admin)
Devon SCHILLER, Viola RÜHSE, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN (Editorial
Team)

digitalart.editor at donau-uni.ac.at