Jody Zellen at Pace Digital Gallery

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Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by artist in  
residence Jody Zellen

"Trigger"
Pace Digital Gallery
163 William St, NYC
Tu - Fr, 10 - 6
info digitalgallery at pace.edu
http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery

Trigger - an interactive site-specific installation - was produced in  
residence at Pace Digital Gallery in 2005, with the collaboration of  
members* of The Center for Advanced Media at Pace University in New  
York City.
*Dr. Francis T Marchese and Josh Rose, CSIS student.

"(Trigger) is in a transitional space, a stairwell, where students and  
visitors walk energetically to the next class or office. People twist  
and turn as they ascend and descend, encountering new image experiences  
along the way. The process of navigating in real space, rather than  
within the space of a computer screen, also adds a playful element. The  
visitors become performance artists or dancers unintentionally  
interacting within this encompassing artwork. The outside world is  
further transformed by large-scale transparencies covering the windows.  
Instead of ecclesiastical imagery, these “stained glass windows”  
represent the iconography of the city. The pacing of motion within the  
space, ambient sound and continuously changing projections become an  
exploration in visual anthropology – a form of “Kinesics in Context” to  
use the title of an important text in that field. In the work Jody  
Zellen has been able to incorporate the spirit of transient experience  
exemplified by the web into a human space which will force visitors to  
pause and reflect before returning to their immediate mission. Perhaps  
during that pause they will give some thought to the larger question  
about where we are all heading as mediating experiences begin to  
dominate daily life."

Edward W. Earle, Curator of Digital Media, International Center of  
Photography, New York
Saccadic Streets: Jody Zellen’s Urban Exploration from the brochure  
essay

Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California who 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 employs media-generated representations of  
contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and  
social investigations. Solo exhibitions include Laguna Art Museum  
(2004-05); Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2002); Deep River,  
Los Angeles (2001). Her net art projects have shown world wide since  
1997 in festivals and exhibitions such as Arte Nuevo Interactive,  
Mexico, ACCEA International media festival, Armenia, Prog:me, Rio de  
Janeiro (2005); File, Brazil, Festival du Noveau Cinema, Montreal,  
Siggraph, Los Angeles, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art,  
Argentina, Cosign, Croatia (2004); New Forms Festival, Vancouver,  
Recontres Internationales, Berlin (2003); Whitney Museum Artport  
(2002); XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002); Art Future 2000, Taiwan;  
Net_Condition, ZKM (1999); Film + Arch.3, Graz (1997).


exhibition October 18 - Novenber 8, 2005
Opening reception Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 6-8 pm


details + map + directions
http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery


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directors
Francis T Marchese, CSIS
Jillian Mcdonald, Fine Arts

assistant director
Will Pappenheimer

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Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
Assistant Director. Pace Digital Gallery
http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/
wpappenheimer at pace.edu
willpap-projects.com
Office: 914-799-4945
Cell: 347-526-5302