Jess Loseby
Since the beginning
Works in United States of America

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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.

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Re: The Artist speaking of his Brushes etc and other stuff


hello,
just thought i'd stop by and have my usual moan...
stop me if if you've heard it before..er, like the last 20 time we debated
the rules..:-)
i tend to think the rules as a loose general guide-line or an ideal can be
good thing for some (although i also kind of think one point of being an
artist is to break any possible rule that's going but that's by the by..) I
also think that if you can follow them and produce the kind of work that
eryk is at the moment then its got to be a good thing for some artists
BUT

why do we always have to slid so quickly into "flash is corporate,
crappy, obvious crap" discussion..
firstly, if you have a programming background, lovely! - enjoy the coding
guys, there's little doubt about the freedom it gives you. But flash makes
the net accessible to the many artists who haven't got the
time/money/inclination to spend god knows how long learning another
language when they they have a pretty user-friendly one that means
they can play with artistic ideas rather than programming ones straight
away.

Secondly, when I was creating textiles long ago, there used to be these
boring unending debates about useing 'natural dyes' against ready
mixed ones. The argument being that ready mixed dyes were for plebs
who could be arsed to go out there and LEARN the craft, who weren't
REAL artists because they didn't know the DEEP personal satisfaction
that came from gathering rosehips at dawn and boiling them down for
80 hours to produce the EXACT shade of pink for their ART. Same
goes with this debate. Flash is seen as the cheep, commercial, cop-out
for the lazy guys. YAWN. it's just a kind of pride. Coding takes longer,
takes longer to learn, is clever... so it HAS to be better,yes?

well, perhaps if it wasn't about art maybe. But whether an artwork
'works' as a piece has little to do with the time the artist has taken to
learn, where they learned, or how they did it. You can spend 6 months
coding a piece and it can still be crap. You can 6 months of a flash
piece and it can be crap. You can manipulate an image in 20 minutes
and it can be bloody brilliant. Because artworks have much more about
them than the tools...it 'works' as a piece of art because of one or more
of a mix of aesthetics, form, content, style, colour (or lack of), tone ("),
agenda, politics, play, text, texture, sound, emotion, reaction(s),
observation, rebellion etc etc etc (delete or add to taste)

perhaps its the old art and craft divide again. Craft has always be about
the 'skill' of the craftsman, art (arguably) about the 'object'. A craftsman
wouldn't use flash and artist might...? Perhaps it is the same way a
craftsman would only use the best wood to make a beautiful table
whereas an artist would make the table out of teabags, matchsticks,
lego blocks..just about anything if it said and did what the artist wanted
it to.

Macromedia Is shite. I use it all the time and I hate them. I put up with it
with it because it frees me from my fear of code (alien language) and
lets me explore. I'm working with video at the moment. I just couldn't
have done with it what I'm doing in flash without another 3 years, rather
more money and a new brain (mine melts at anything above basic
scripting)
'nuff said. I've bored even myself.
jess. o
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New work @the cyber-kitchen


New work this week @the cyber-kitchen
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com

dlsan - 'aqua' (Flash)
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/dlsan_kitchen.htm

dagmar kase - 'door' (image and audio)
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/dagmarkase.htm

Kanarinka - 'microwave' (Flash & audio)
http://www.pbkboston.org/k/cyberkitchen/microwave.jsp

Ruth Chandler - washing machine (text)
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/RuthChandler.html

Luiz - drying rack (digital photo)
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/luiz.htm

Pierre Gauvin -kitchen counter (digital photos)
http://www.the-cyber-
kitchen.com/Pierre%20Gauvin_Kitchen%20Counter6.htm

jess loseby -boy in the kitchen (flash video)
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/boy_in_kitchen.html

the cyber-kitchen is an ongoing project. Artists are invited to submit
ideas and work for new objects in the kitchen...
http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com/call_for_artists.htm

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new work (nothing to do with kitchens:-))


new work by jess loseby , music by clive loseby
flash 6, speakers and fast connection needed....
http://www.rssgallery.com/isolationbreedscontempt.htm

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