ROSEMARY COMELLA
Interface Designer & Software Developer

Rosemary Comella has been working since 1999 as a project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project. As part of Labyrinth, she developed the interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction, collaboration between experimental filmmaker Pat O'Neill and the Labyrinth team, and she helped direct The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Current of the River, an interactive installation with filmmaker Peter Forgács. She also developed Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, an interactive installation and DVD-ROM, in collaboration with cultural historian Norman Klein and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany. She directed and served as photographer for Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment, an installation and DVD-ROM, including catalog, exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2005. For the past ten years, Comella has been producing new media works ranging from interactive installations and CD-ROMS with various artists to social research projects, children’s CD-ROMS and cultural projects in France. Some of the published CD-ROM titles she has been instrumental in developing include: An Anecdoted Archive of the Cold War by George Legrady and HyperReal Media Productions, San Francisco; Slippery Traces by George Legrady in collaboration with Rosemary Comella, published by ZKM, Karlsruhe; Clicking In by Lynn Hershman, published by Bay Press, Seattle; MUNTADAS: Media Architecture Installations, published by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Cosmos, voyage dans l’universe, published by Montparnasse Multimedia, Paris. She has also participated in developing interactive museum installations for the following venues: Kunst und Austellung Halle Museum, Bonn; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Siemens Museum, Munich; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and ZKM. In addition to her career in the digital realm, Comella has also worked in the fine arts arena both as an assistant director at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and as an exhibiting artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has an undergraduate degree in both English Literature and Art from California State University, Hayward and has done graduate coursework in Clinical Psychology at JFK University in Cupertino, California and graduate coursework in Art/Photography at California State University, San Jose.