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: Flash Explores New Angles


Hi,
personally I think probably that part of the problem with the (under)
utilize of MX is sadly down to cost (ho hum). Flash in itself is just about
affordable to general artists but the three cameras, people to shoot the
film, editing equipment (virtual dub which I use is free and fab but just
not up to this) to create the kinds of bullet time/interactive video they
are talking about here is just too far out of your average net artists
reach - but just right for mr corporate design-a-web. Having said that
the time keeps getting shorter between what is affordable to the
industry and what is afforable for the individual is possible so I would
guess that more is round the corner. I have just begun to play with
video in MX (though not the interactive capabilities as yet).but still in the
'ooh this is cool!' stage playing (eg making my daughter swim across an
page like some weird cyber fish hee! hee!). At the risk of starting a why
are net artists never paid debate, the double edged sword of the
equality of the net artist (ie anyone can be one regardless of age
background location etc) is perhaps that 'everyone' tends to be on
'normal' or less (for their age, background, location etc) income and
can't afford all the gear. In this respect the net artist will always be
playing catch-up with the corporate boys....
jess.
> Flash Explores New Angles
> Macromedia's Flash MX allows users to do a number of cool tricks,
> including switching instantaneously between video clips.
new work: 'light from the machine'
http://www.rssgallery.com/lightfromthemachine.html o
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on a subject long gone...


as a note on a subject gone by the other (radio, net, royalties etc etc) I
just through I would add a flip side to the general stuff that was said
before in the light of something that happened to me today. You may
not know that I'm married to a composer, clive. His his music was
shown 3 times a day on a short film (that he did for free) on a small
satellite channel this week, 3 times a day in fact. Under current PRS
fees if it had been shown on a larger channel we would have been
looking at a fee from the station of around

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light from the machine


New Work: flash, video, sound and guilt
'light from the machine'
jess loseby
sound
clive loseby
http://www.rssgallery.com/lightfromthemachine.html

sorry eryk - no ascii:-)
sorry lewis - piss poor interaction but i do have a gameboy you can
borrow if you'd like to play while you watch:-)
30 sec preload on 64k + connection
dial-up connection - go and have a cup of tea and come back
Flash 6 player + soundcard + speakers o
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Re: 4 of 4


> But, like the guy on the corner who had fallen out of his wheel
> chair. I'll try to help him back in but I'd also think the greater
> goal is to help him get rid of the wheel chair. The task isn't
> always instantly remedied.
or maybe the wheelchair is such a bad thing and he's perfectly happy.
Maybe he wanted to be on the floor and you just pissed him of trying to
make him walk and be 'normal'...
hee! hee! hee! (sorry in-joke)
jess.

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


> you forgot: "bad artists, bad coders"
maybe....:-)