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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Trivial Connections [excuse the up-its-own-backside intro]


Trivial Connections Jess Loseby
http://www.rssgallery.com/trivialconnections/trivialconnections.html

Trivial connections is a networked installation, which maps the comparisons between
the network in its frustrations, attention to triviality and repetition as absurdly
compatible to the female domestic routine. The networks positioning as primarily a
communication medium is signifed by the babble of children, the movement of
individuals within the bitstreams as playful

DISCUSSION

Re: On New York, gaps in toilet seat and a bit of art


hi sgp,

thanks for adding more info which is helpful. Perhaps if I had been
brave enough to say something at the presentation you could have
talked a little more then and I do realise that adding my comments
here its easy and 'safe' to take you to task after the event which
is a little unfair.

[you wrote:sgp: Hmm, I think we were saying that we are currently
limiting the mapping input to the 5 boroughs(Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
Staten Island and
Manhattan) for our installation this September. This is simply an issue
of production time. The way we are building the project it will be
easy to
add maps in the future. Frankly, if you know someone at mapquest or a
similar digital map company that would be willing to donate maps,
please send them our way. So please be amused in sharing our mutual
grief about deadlines and they're impact on idealism!!]

Although I see I was mistaken in thinking that the project just covered
Manhattan, I still think translocal is a wee bit optimistic a label
for 5 boroughs. I am an also an idealist as you say but a realist
when it comes to deadlines. Its not that the project had to be scaled
down to meet the deadline that I was 'amused' about, it was the it
seemed to be presented with large and global terminology as a project
large and global concerns.. and then mentioned that actually it wouldn't
be er..quite as large and global. I think my main feeling was that
your presentation (when it was just you and the pre-PDPal projects)
was very laidback, informal and (although tech is not my thing) informative.
Then when it went to the new project and the the other creators
joined the presentation suddenly seemed to switch into 'BIG' mode
when 'translocal', 'social-informational nodes '(I think that's the
name that was used) 'social strategies' and all the rest of the museum-
proposal hype started being thrown around in a way that I felt the
project on the screen just couldn't live up to. I just don't think
in this respect that idealism did any favours in respect of what
is a strong, well researched project. It wasn't presented as "we
have done, this, this and this and we would ideally like to extend
it into here, here and here" it was presented as "these are global
issues, these are big themes, these are deep narratives..but we couldn't
do all of them because we ran out of time". That was what made me
snigger and left me unsatisfied.

I hope you understand that I'm not attacking the project (although
I still wonder about the use of the word social) I just still can't
link the style and speech of the presentation with it's realization.
My gripe with presentations (particularly those presenting projects
that are backed by institutions as I think they add the pressure
on the artists to convince people that their projects are BIG and
very important) goes beyond this one. I think one of the constant
battle ground in advancing net/digital art is there is always a gap
between peoples (viewers) expectations of what the computers/net/digital
art can achieve and what can actually be delivered given the constraints
of technology, funding and time needed and this is reinforced by
good (but constrained in certain areas) projects being 'talked up'
in terms of their scope, social impact and global relevance. Personally
I rather see a good project being presented the localized and interesting
start of perhaps wider concerns and possibilities than disappointed
by being told how BIG it is and wondering why....
j.

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url (PDPal)


btw the url I sent seemed to cover the first PDPal project, the discussion
at the upgrade was for version 2
j.

DISCUSSION

Re: On New York, gaps in toilet seat and a bit of art


many apologies Ivan,
the site I went to after the eyebeam presentation was at:
http://www.sgp-7.net/proj/pr/index.shtm
cheers,
j.

the

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Look, I don't want to turn into a whinging pom, especially as its [sgp]
again (now turned into scott paterson (sweater wearer)), but if you are
going to have a public conversation about something it is nice and
polite
to
reference the thing that you are talking about so we can follow or join
in.
Jess didn't give any link or reference for PDPal and nor did sgp in his
interesting response. Now, I can Google with the best of them, but
should
I
have to?
Cheers,
Ivan (bad morning, went to the wrong meeting last night)

DISCUSSION

On New York... and PDPal Discussion


I love New York. A cliche but true.

If I wasn't on two wheels, could move my tree- hugging man away
from the greenery and hadn't watched Michael Mores