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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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: fresh air & real soul...


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DISCUSSION

lapdance: new ''''work''''


the word ''work'' used in the broadest possible sense of the word.
...what can I say my internet connection was down and I had (literally) far too much time
on my hands this morning. (and I thought it was funny)

lapdance
http://www.rssgallery.com/lapdance.htm
flash 6 + sound

(rough on a dial-up, sorry)

jess.

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DISCUSSION

textual tango [new work]


I've been a good girl this year so I thought I'd break a few rules for
some fun - mainly eryk's & copyright:-)

Anyway, online dating texts, sampled video & el tango de roxanne in a
textual tango.
[flash6 - soundcard & speakers - a little clunky on a dial-up but ok]

http://www.rssgallery.com/textualtango.htm

jess

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: curating the curators


Date sent: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:09:46 -0400
To: jess@rssgallery.com
From: Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: curating the curators
Copies to: list@rhizome.org
Send reply to: Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>

> >the net, although arguably the last free landscape for artists
> >practise, costs to walk in.
>
> I got interested in researching, just hypothetically, whether one
> could publish to the web for free. I almost went so far as
> researching free hardware possibilities, but I didn't. Anyway, the
> resultant list of free (or very cheap) tools and services is here:
> http://www.lab404.com/toolbox/
>
Very cool list - my little addition would be virtual dub (PC
freeware/shareware) which is just lovely, clean and simple video
capturing and basic editing to avi for the impatient:-)
http://www.virtualdub.org

neil jenkins (devoid) once told me you could tap into broadband using
something like some basic cabling and a empty box of pringles.
Seeing as my connection is my biggest outgoing - that's what I'd like to
know how to set up - preferably without getting arrested of course
(wimp)

other free/almost free sources of images that I've used include old
cini/photographs from car boot sales, seeing if you can put the
contents of an entire room individually under a scanner, pinching your
childs gameboy camera, raiding the bin next to photocopier in the
library, mail-art call under the free ads/email lists (send me a line of text
or a photograph) amongst others
but then I am a bit odd like that...

jess.

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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: curating the curators


mornin' curt
>
> By way of personal disclosure, I've got 2 kids and another one on the
> way.
congrats! 3 is just the best fun although I warn you, with three you
always are a pair of hands short!:-)

> But if I start considering my art as something from which I may
> reasonably expect an income (or even a modest stipend), I deprive
> myself of a precious opportunity to celebrate life unobliged, and I
> become the poorer for it. (Local mileage may vary.)
Can anyone really celebrate life unobliged??? Well, perhaps if you are
a single, male, orphan living in the middle of a moor:-)Different
discussion...

I don't think artists should 'expect' to make a living (even, as you say, a
modest stipend) but when you get a grant, a commission etc it can
make a huge difference to how many balls you have to juggle to make
art. Too many balls and the art suffers as you can't make anything of
quality, too few and the art is empty. An ability to juggle should be the
fist thing they teach you at art school:-)
>
>
r on.
>
> If nobody came, would they still build it? That's my (admittedly
> subjective) criterion for artistic integrity. Howard Finster would
> still build it. Tracy Emin would not.
Absolutely agree. An entire generation of artists have been tarred by
the 'brit art' brush. The only thing I'll say for Emin or Hirst is at least they
can talk (even passionately sometimes) about how and why they do
what they do (even if you reserve the right to believe they are talking
bollocks). Start talking about some others in the pack, say Sarah Lucas
and I start screaming...
>
>

> The logistical question is, how do you convince the trustees who are
> funding these organizations to agree with your feeling?
Completely, which was why my fist email said 'how do we get heard?'
Wouldn't it
> be more feasible (maybe it wouldn't) to establish your own
> institution and get your own grant money from the trustees to
> distribute as you see fit? (Wouldn't it be more feasible yet to
> abandon the acquisition and distribution of money altogether, and
> just make cool stuff?!?)
As Ivan said, furtherfield is doing that and I have been lucky enough to
be involved with them. It is the furtherfield model, I think that is the
template for how net, art, artists, establishment, anti-establishment can
actually find a cohesion without compromise.
I don't think it is feasible (outside idealism) for artists to abandon the
acquisition and distribution of money. My cyber-kitchen project cost