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GHOST CITY /  fragments of T V  T I M E S Jody Zellen Webpage/ animated GIF 1997-

Jody Zellen has created the illusion of a real breathing city. In a point and click, choose your own adventure style virtual space, viewers can dive into a seemingly unending rabbit hole of glitch art and animated gifs. Occasionally, seemingly possessed images will pop up into separate windows and dance across the screen, giving the illusion of life. According to her website, GHOST CITY is continuously updated. 

In her section titled ‘net art’, Zellen describes GHOST CITY as an archive of technology. Like many other digital artists, Zellen is pushing the boundaries of what is capable with a simple webpage. She invites the viewer to wonder what a real city requires to be defined as a city. 

Slide Four focuses on the Equality of life the MyCycle affords (the MyCycle is the new mode of transport which made footpaths obsolete.) The idea behind it is that people who've been disabled, loosing the ability to walk, are able to move around just as independently as those with no disibility. I chose for this image, to make a newspaper article. I began by putting together an article on Photoshop. I used an image from here to create the character. This is what I made in the first stage;

Then, to add an extra layer of depth to the image, I printed out the page I had made onto butchers paper (as close to newspaper paper as I could find lying around at home) and then folded/creased it to make it look old and worn. I then scanned the image back onto the computer. Here it is;