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BIO
Jess Loseby is a digital artist from the UK whose main medium is the internet. Her work ranges from small and intimate online installationsto large scale digital projections and video. In a relatively brief time, her work has become known internationally such as the ‘cyber-kitchen’ (lead artist and co-curator) and ‘the Digital Pocket’ (lead artist and co-curator), which is currently listed in the Whitney Artport. In August 2003, she became the first virtual artist in residence at Furtherfield.org (FurtherStudio) one of the first virtual artists residencies of its kind. She has exhibited in digital festivals such as the Split Film Festival, Pixxelpoint 2003, FILE 2003 and the Stuttgart Filmwinter. In 2003 she created interactive digital sets for the production of ‘The Dadaists’ at The Met Theater in Hollywood. Also in 2003 she was also awarded a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, with the resulting work 'views from the ground floor...' being currently exhibited internationally.
Thematically, her projects continue her fascination with borderlands and ‘beautiful seams’ between the ubiquitous worlds of computing and the ‘real’ (domestic). A staunch opponent of new media's absorption with VR, her on and offline installations create flows and streams in the relational space of art and technology. Loseby’s unashamedly low-tech approach to new media build comparisons of the network and digitally (in its frustrations, attention to triviality and repetition) as absurdly compatible to the female domestic routine.
Jess Loseby has 3 children, 2 wheels, 1 husband and 0 days off.
Thematically, her projects continue her fascination with borderlands and ‘beautiful seams’ between the ubiquitous worlds of computing and the ‘real’ (domestic). A staunch opponent of new media's absorption with VR, her on and offline installations create flows and streams in the relational space of art and technology. Loseby’s unashamedly low-tech approach to new media build comparisons of the network and digitally (in its frustrations, attention to triviality and repetition) as absurdly compatible to the female domestic routine.
Jess Loseby has 3 children, 2 wheels, 1 husband and 0 days off.
jess@rssgallery.com
Dates:
Tue Jul 23, 2002 00:00 - Mon Jul 22, 2002
Press Release:
'the cyber-kitchen' (http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com) a collaborative net artists installation opens Tuesday 23rd July.
Curated and created by UK independent net.artist Jess Loseby (rssgallery.com, The Digital Pocket Gallery and furtherfield.org) and run on a budget of 50p and a packet of crisps - the project reaches in to the corporate,
impersonal space of the internet and quite literally drags you down into the dirty dishes...
33 artists (established and emerging) based in the UK, USA, Romania, Spain, Croatia, France (amongst others) open the project with new works being added daily. The artwork includes digital photography, video, interactive animation, digital painting and text-
based projects. Artists are invited to choose an 'object' within the cyber-kitchen for interpretation and inspiration. The cyber-kitchen includes a 'hob' where interactive poetry laments the lover that will never cook, a 'dark doorway' that takes you out of the the kitchen and
down a human throat, a 'teapot' that both ridicules and celebrates the tea-drinker and a mouse-hole, where inside the mice are planing domination of the kitchen...and then rest of the world!
Kate Armstrong, Nancy Bechtol , Amie Bolissian, Brad Brace , Susan Burgess,Samantha Caine, Damon Cleary, Nicolae Comanescu , Jo Cook , Lilian Cooper, Anna Cecile Gabali, Pierre Gauvin, Gez, Neil Jenkins, Judson, Sarah Klein, Jess Loseby, Jorge Margolles, Maya, Joseph Franklyn McElroy & Donna McElroy, Mr.Milk, Simon Morse, Linda Munday, Owen Plotkin, Roslyn Rose, Ernesto Sarezale, Laurent Sauerwein, S'unya, Pamela G. Taylor, Floe Tudor, Jeremy Turner, Mona Vatamanu
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An ongoing project, the cyber-kitchen is accepting submissions for new 'objects'. The cyber-kitchen can be found at:
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com.
Jess Loseby cab be contacted at:
jessloseby@the-cyber-kitchen.com
or jess@rssgallery.com
'the cyber-kitchen' (http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com) a collaborative net artists installation opens Tuesday 23rd July.
Curated and created by UK independent net.artist Jess Loseby (rssgallery.com, The Digital Pocket Gallery and furtherfield.org) and run on a budget of 50p and a packet of crisps - the project reaches in to the corporate,
impersonal space of the internet and quite literally drags you down into the dirty dishes...
33 artists (established and emerging) based in the UK, USA, Romania, Spain, Croatia, France (amongst others) open the project with new works being added daily. The artwork includes digital photography, video, interactive animation, digital painting and text-
based projects. Artists are invited to choose an 'object' within the cyber-kitchen for interpretation and inspiration. The cyber-kitchen includes a 'hob' where interactive poetry laments the lover that will never cook, a 'dark doorway' that takes you out of the the kitchen and
down a human throat, a 'teapot' that both ridicules and celebrates the tea-drinker and a mouse-hole, where inside the mice are planing domination of the kitchen...and then rest of the world!
Kate Armstrong, Nancy Bechtol , Amie Bolissian, Brad Brace , Susan Burgess,Samantha Caine, Damon Cleary, Nicolae Comanescu , Jo Cook , Lilian Cooper, Anna Cecile Gabali, Pierre Gauvin, Gez, Neil Jenkins, Judson, Sarah Klein, Jess Loseby, Jorge Margolles, Maya, Joseph Franklyn McElroy & Donna McElroy, Mr.Milk, Simon Morse, Linda Munday, Owen Plotkin, Roslyn Rose, Ernesto Sarezale, Laurent Sauerwein, S'unya, Pamela G. Taylor, Floe Tudor, Jeremy Turner, Mona Vatamanu
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An ongoing project, the cyber-kitchen is accepting submissions for new 'objects'. The cyber-kitchen can be found at:
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com.
Jess Loseby cab be contacted at:
jessloseby@the-cyber-kitchen.com
or jess@rssgallery.com
Re: Institution pulling rank..
> There could be a more underlying issue emerging here, in relation to artists being supported by net organisations (usually for free) are challenging larger insitutions just by existing, for many net art groups are being visited regularly, with an increasing a global presence. What does everyone
else think?
>
hi marc, I agree its worrying, I tend to think that simply a case of some anal jobsworth
with time on their hands but...
What worries me most about this is they believe they have the power to control the ISP.
Hopefully Joy's copyright info will be helpful and they'll back off - but it makes me
wonder if this kind of tactics will make ISP's shy away from forms of artwork and sites
that may include controversial imagery - even if the legality of these site can be 'proved'.
They may feel that they could be open for prosecution. Wasn't there a court case (in the
UK, I think) about a year ago when an ISP was successfully prosecuted for hosting a
site where there was some dialogue in the chatroom that was considered libellous?Even
though the ISP called on the right of free speech, and that they themselves had not
made these comments they were fined and temporarily closed for hosting the chatroom
where the comment had taken place....??? I think thats right, I can't remember the
details as I just saw a quick piece on the news...
hmmm.
jess.
else think?
>
hi marc, I agree its worrying, I tend to think that simply a case of some anal jobsworth
with time on their hands but...
What worries me most about this is they believe they have the power to control the ISP.
Hopefully Joy's copyright info will be helpful and they'll back off - but it makes me
wonder if this kind of tactics will make ISP's shy away from forms of artwork and sites
that may include controversial imagery - even if the legality of these site can be 'proved'.
They may feel that they could be open for prosecution. Wasn't there a court case (in the
UK, I think) about a year ago when an ISP was successfully prosecuted for hosting a
site where there was some dialogue in the chatroom that was considered libellous?Even
though the ISP called on the right of free speech, and that they themselves had not
made these comments they were fined and temporarily closed for hosting the chatroom
where the comment had taken place....??? I think thats right, I can't remember the
details as I just saw a quick piece on the news...
hmmm.
jess.
Re: domain structuring
<body>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> http://www.lewislacook.com/</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I've been trying
to create some sort of handy index to the bulk of my work on the net...this is by no means complete</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">, but should serve
the purpose...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">any suggestions,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">the fill on your name does my eyes
in a bit but other than that very cool...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">comments,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Impressed and enjoyed...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> dirty jokes,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">A nun is having a bath when there
is a knock at the door. "Who is it?" the nun asks. "the
blind man" comes the reply. "Oh that all right then" she thinks he can't see me so she
calls "come in". A young man enters the bathroom "nice tits love" he says "where
do you
want the blind?"</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">old but good.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> insults,</span></font></div>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass
through it. (F</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">. H. Bradley)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">He always finds himself lost in thought - it's an
unfamiliar territory (</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Anon)</span></font></p>
<div align="left"><br>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> come ons</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">that i don't do...sorry:-)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> and such welcome
welcome welcome...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> bliss</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jess.</span></font></div>
</body>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> http://www.lewislacook.com/</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I've been trying
to create some sort of handy index to the bulk of my work on the net...this is by no means complete</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">, but should serve
the purpose...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">any suggestions,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">the fill on your name does my eyes
in a bit but other than that very cool...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">comments,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Impressed and enjoyed...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> dirty jokes,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">A nun is having a bath when there
is a knock at the door. "Who is it?" the nun asks. "the
blind man" comes the reply. "Oh that all right then" she thinks he can't see me so she
calls "come in". A young man enters the bathroom "nice tits love" he says "where
do you
want the blind?"</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">old but good.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> insults,</span></font></div>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass
through it. (F</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">. H. Bradley)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">He always finds himself lost in thought - it's an
unfamiliar territory (</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Anon)</span></font></p>
<div align="left"><br>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> come ons</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">that i don't do...sorry:-)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br>
</div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> and such welcome
welcome welcome...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> bliss</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jess.</span></font></div>
</body>
Some thoughts on the cyber-kitchen...
'llo,
Hopefully you have seen the call for the cyber-kitchen (http://www.the-
cyber-kitchen.com) I thought I'd give it bit more of a plug. The call went
out in the UK first and I've noticed a lack of american interest -
strangely?? So for any of you that might be umming and ahhing about
diving into the domestic here's a bit of extra encouragement:-)
Firstly the 'proposal'. This really means just an email to me saying Jess,
I want the washing machine/knives/blender etc. I'm not into a paper
trail, this is purely so I don't get 20 fridges. There's more kitchen 'states'
going up over the next few days so more 'objects' to choose from, or
check the list on the site.
Secondly, I'm directing the project in terms of the overall feel and
(hopefully) the general standard of the work in the kitchen but what I'm
really hoping is the artists feel that they can have freedom in
interpreting this any way they like. Kitchens are eclectic. This evening I
have a bottle of scotch, a tin of baked beans, a knackered modem and
a lego model of buzz lightyear on top of my washing machine. My friend
has two iceboxes. One for her food and one for the tissue samples she
uses for her work. (urgh) One of the artists involved is interpreting one
of the dark corridors of the hall way as a raw, pinched throat using
internal photographs. I love this ...where does that suddenly place the
kitchen??One minute you're sitting having coffee in the sunlight the
next you've slipped slipping down into the darkness. The domestic
peace becomes a construction, the locality an illusion...more please!!!
Finally if your still unsure: the artists involved so far include:
Maya,Cathy Ward, Pierre Gauvin, Saskia, giselle kymberly Linda
Munday,amie.bolissian,Susan Burgess,Laurent Sauerwein,Mr
Milk,jorge margolles,samantha caine, neil Jenkins, simon morse...
what more could you want...:-)
Looking forward to hearing from you....
Cheers,
jess.
-- o [ ][ II ][ II ]___
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][ |XX| o|o | @ |
the cyber-kitchen
Hopefully you have seen the call for the cyber-kitchen (http://www.the-
cyber-kitchen.com) I thought I'd give it bit more of a plug. The call went
out in the UK first and I've noticed a lack of american interest -
strangely?? So for any of you that might be umming and ahhing about
diving into the domestic here's a bit of extra encouragement:-)
Firstly the 'proposal'. This really means just an email to me saying Jess,
I want the washing machine/knives/blender etc. I'm not into a paper
trail, this is purely so I don't get 20 fridges. There's more kitchen 'states'
going up over the next few days so more 'objects' to choose from, or
check the list on the site.
Secondly, I'm directing the project in terms of the overall feel and
(hopefully) the general standard of the work in the kitchen but what I'm
really hoping is the artists feel that they can have freedom in
interpreting this any way they like. Kitchens are eclectic. This evening I
have a bottle of scotch, a tin of baked beans, a knackered modem and
a lego model of buzz lightyear on top of my washing machine. My friend
has two iceboxes. One for her food and one for the tissue samples she
uses for her work. (urgh) One of the artists involved is interpreting one
of the dark corridors of the hall way as a raw, pinched throat using
internal photographs. I love this ...where does that suddenly place the
kitchen??One minute you're sitting having coffee in the sunlight the
next you've slipped slipping down into the darkness. The domestic
peace becomes a construction, the locality an illusion...more please!!!
Finally if your still unsure: the artists involved so far include:
Maya,Cathy Ward, Pierre Gauvin, Saskia, giselle kymberly Linda
Munday,amie.bolissian,Susan Burgess,Laurent Sauerwein,Mr
Milk,jorge margolles,samantha caine, neil Jenkins, simon morse...
what more could you want...:-)
Looking forward to hearing from you....
Cheers,
jess.
-- o [ ][ II ][ II ]___
_ /^\_ /88|______|__ |_____
][ |XX| o|o | @ |
the cyber-kitchen
call for artists http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com
apologies for repeat/cross posting:
- call for artists http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com Projected Start of
Exhibition: 23 July 2002 How the project will develop/ guidelines for
submission
Artists are invited to submit proposals for inclusion in the cyber-kitchen
at http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com by emailing:
jessloseby@the-cyber-kitchen.com
Kitchens are traditionally both the hub of the family home and the icons
of domesticity. They are filled with a strange mix of technology in the
shape of labour-saving devices mixed with the mundanity of the
chipped cup or empty carton. There is a secret rhythm and motion
within these objects and surfaces: the endless cycle of consumption
and elimination, the formation bacteria and the ritual cleansing of the
space.
In the kitchen image (see http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com), a few
objects have been converted to buttons and these will lead the visitor
into the individual artworks. More buttons will be added as artists pick
the areas or objects they wish to interpret. Over time the kitchen itself
will change, as people 'enter' the space and objects are moved and
rearranged. Artists are invited to pick any object or area of the kitchen
for interpretation/representation. This might achieved literally (such as
in the digital interpretation of an object e.g., a teacup) or as a play on
the idea or meaning of an object (e.g. a teacup might result in a work
based on 'a storm in a teacup') There are also four doorways, a French
window and a corridor leading off the cyber-kitchen...where do they go?
There are no limitations to shape, format or creative interpretation of
the objects in the cyber-kitchen except for a few practical constraints:
1) Please submit proposals and/or works in progress rather than
completed works...this is make sure that the cyber-kitchen is full of a
number of 'objects' and not 20 fridges!
2) PC based artworks only (including zipped submissions, no .sit files)
please.
3. Artwork can be static jpeg, gif, flash movies, html, java low-res video
etc. providing it can be displayed/transmitted on the net. Larger works
(e.g. video may need to be hosted on the artists own site and integrated
through links)
4) One 'object' only per artist
5)Artworks will be 'displayed' on a black background unless otherwise
specified
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Notes
As it is hoped this will become a collaborative project, artists are
invited to 'own' the project by inviting further artists to participate and
promoting the work. Also offers of help curating the project and advice on its
progression are welcomed.
Single images or detailed digital photographs of objects that can be
seen in the kitchen can be requested for artists to manipulate within
their work. Please email me here stating whether you require jpeg or gif
files and colour or greyscale.
Please see: http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com for more details. Cheers,
jess loseby.
-- o [ ][ II ][ II ]___
_ /^\_ /88|______|__ |_____
][ |XX| o|o | @ |
the cyber-kitchen
- call for artists http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com Projected Start of
Exhibition: 23 July 2002 How the project will develop/ guidelines for
submission
Artists are invited to submit proposals for inclusion in the cyber-kitchen
at http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com by emailing:
jessloseby@the-cyber-kitchen.com
Kitchens are traditionally both the hub of the family home and the icons
of domesticity. They are filled with a strange mix of technology in the
shape of labour-saving devices mixed with the mundanity of the
chipped cup or empty carton. There is a secret rhythm and motion
within these objects and surfaces: the endless cycle of consumption
and elimination, the formation bacteria and the ritual cleansing of the
space.
In the kitchen image (see http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com), a few
objects have been converted to buttons and these will lead the visitor
into the individual artworks. More buttons will be added as artists pick
the areas or objects they wish to interpret. Over time the kitchen itself
will change, as people 'enter' the space and objects are moved and
rearranged. Artists are invited to pick any object or area of the kitchen
for interpretation/representation. This might achieved literally (such as
in the digital interpretation of an object e.g., a teacup) or as a play on
the idea or meaning of an object (e.g. a teacup might result in a work
based on 'a storm in a teacup') There are also four doorways, a French
window and a corridor leading off the cyber-kitchen...where do they go?
There are no limitations to shape, format or creative interpretation of
the objects in the cyber-kitchen except for a few practical constraints:
1) Please submit proposals and/or works in progress rather than
completed works...this is make sure that the cyber-kitchen is full of a
number of 'objects' and not 20 fridges!
2) PC based artworks only (including zipped submissions, no .sit files)
please.
3. Artwork can be static jpeg, gif, flash movies, html, java low-res video
etc. providing it can be displayed/transmitted on the net. Larger works
(e.g. video may need to be hosted on the artists own site and integrated
through links)
4) One 'object' only per artist
5)Artworks will be 'displayed' on a black background unless otherwise
specified
-------
Notes
As it is hoped this will become a collaborative project, artists are
invited to 'own' the project by inviting further artists to participate and
promoting the work. Also offers of help curating the project and advice on its
progression are welcomed.
Single images or detailed digital photographs of objects that can be
seen in the kitchen can be requested for artists to manipulate within
their work. Please email me here stating whether you require jpeg or gif
files and colour or greyscale.
Please see: http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com for more details. Cheers,
jess loseby.
-- o [ ][ II ][ II ]___
_ /^\_ /88|______|__ |_____
][ |XX| o|o | @ |
the cyber-kitchen