CITY DUMMIES is an evolving series of born-digital works, representing a departure from traditional filmmaking technologies to emerging post-cinematic engines (namely: Unreal Engine). Depicting a fictional yet hyper-realistic and meticulously stylized city, fragmented cityscapes—and the activities that occur in them—form an intricate puzzle. Based on almost 20 years of experience as an artist working with spatial scenography, light, sound, and video, CITY DUMMIES brings Rodeh's deep knowledge and expertise from the physical to the virtual.
Alona Rodeh is an Israeli-born visual artist, scenographer, and urban practitioner based in Berlin. Her cross-disciplinary practices are rooted in the perception of space and include creating large immersive environments incorporating light and sound, research-based publishing, night walking, and more. With an emphasis on public space, she has shown her works extensively inside and outside institutions, museums, and galleries in Israel, Germany, and abroad. She teaches at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and is an advocate of the International Dark Sky Association.
