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: commisioning net art


Hi,
Just out of curiosity, why are you limiting this call for net.art to New York based artists?
jess loseby.

> Hi All,
> The alternative museum <http://www.alternativemuseum.org/> is looking for
> New York based artists to commission new net art pieces for their web site.
> If you have an example of your work on the web send the URL by responding
> to this email.
> Women artists are especially encouraged to submit a URL of existing work.
>
>
>
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> G.H. Hovagimyan
> Experimental Digital Art
> http://artnetweb.com/gh
> http://www.biddingtons.com/content/creativehovagimyan.html
> http://artnetweb.com/gh/heartbreak.html
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Press Release: http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com


Press Release

http://www.the-cyber-kitchen.com

the-cyber-kitchen, a collaborative net.art installation enters
its second phase this week with its progression into a time based
project. Previously showing a small slice of cyber-domesticity,
the project now documents an actual 24hr time period of a western
woman

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Re: Membership fee?


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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hi Liza, good to hear you going for
it again too!</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; &lt;soapbox&gt;</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; There is too
much poverty and suffering just outside my East Village </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; door for me to
really care about a &quot;starving&quot; artist. Cash or </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; resource strapped
is a whole 'nother ball game. If you don't have the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; means, most likely
you can't do the art --and it don' much matter how </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; little or how
much you need.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; &lt;/soapbox&gt;</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">soapbox agreed. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Though I'm using the 'starving artist'
term flippantly, there is often talk how many artists
are divided between their 'jobs' and their 'art'. I know that all artist want to do is make art
(and this is no way a solution to that) but could paying artists to teach and share
knowledge (outside of the institutions that can so easily take over and leave no time
outside marking papers) be a way that at least some income can be earned by them and
rhizome doing what they do best? I don't have the economic terminology to put this well,
but if rhizomes greatest commodities are say a)the art b) the variety of skills c)
people/labour. Utilizing the second two must come high on the agenda when looking at
generating finances...? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; &nbsp;</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; There is talk
about creating a CodeBase but with what Rhizome is </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; going through,
the project is on hold. With the CodeBase Rhizome </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; could have another
incentive for people to join for a fee.&gt; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Not being a coder i'm afraid I'm &nbsp;still
sitting on the fence swinging my legs when it comes
to this (utilizing commodity a?) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; I guess it has
not happened because they do not have the resources. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; Tribe can answer
that. But this is a point you have brought to the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; fore on and on
again and Mark Tribe, who has sit on more than one </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; granting panel,
could take note of this.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">What resources (in all fairness I've
not spoken to Mark about this so I may be jumping
the gun)?? I know a stack of colleges &nbsp;(and I'm sure many artists wanting to learn more
about rhizome/net art, 'meet' the people etc) that would jump at getting their art/media
students involved in a &nbsp;'virtual internship' working for rhizome doing just that..for no
money but the cv credit and experience. Our local galleries and arts organisation have
almost half their admistration/publicity run in this way, with &nbsp;1 -3 month student 'work
placements' with a specified agenda. The resources we would need are a well
structured 'brief' (eg basic outline could be to identify media/art/digital agencies, contact
and promote rhizome) and someone to co-ordinate &nbsp;the 'interns' over email. I still think
rhizome just isn't thinking global enough, ironically consider how much influence it has
on global artists. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; So how can Rhizome
and netArtists have access to resources from </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; around the world
in order to do what they do best &nbsp;--build a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; world-wide community
through art. That is the heart of the dilemma.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I think (if you will excuse the v
bad pun) widening the net would help. And particularly, I
think we need advocate in the various countries speaking to the major funding bodies to
tell them to bloody well get with the times. (This is after spending a week talking to the
arts boards who refuse look at virtual collaborative projects because I have never
physically 'met' my collaborators). The arts council is currently offering awards for artists
of up to &pound;28,000 to collaborate with scientists so money is not THAT tight. We just need
to convince them of the legitimacy of the work... (oh, that's ok then I thought it would be
</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>hard:</i>-)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">enough rambling. &nbsp;Good words
Liza.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">j.</span></font></div>
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Re: Membership fee?


Hi Mark,

I have a couple of points and suggestions that come out of your
message that I'd like to raise - please excuse the long email. I don't talk
much but when I do, it's difficult to put the lid back on...

The first thing is that I feel that a membership fee is definitely
reasonable but perhaps this should be $10 (based on 50% take up) a
year (?) which should still be accessible to most users. I do think with
all organizations there becomes a point where it cannot continue to run
on goodwill and grants and the choice becomes:
1) to accept the corporate (and everything that comes with it - I don't
hold with joseph's 'bold or fold')
2)to cut and trim the services/staff/projects (hibernation)
3)charge for what you doing.

The third seems be the lesser of the three 'evils' as it allows rhizome to
run without accountability to anyone except its own members. I can see
the attractiveness of 'hibernation' and in some ways, getting the
membership to take responsibility for their environment could be a very
positive thing. What worries me is what seems to happen is a small
number of people end up doing all the work to keep the thing running
but then, the rest enjoy the continued presence and remain uninvolved
(while the few burn out - and for no money). Also would possible
funders increase/continue future funding when it has been 'proved' that
rhizome can 'work' with a reduced remit and volunteer-based set-up? It
seems more likely that funders would see a membership fee as a
positive sign that rhizome is seeking to become self-supporting and
their money would be used to fund new initiatives, work and writing
rather than (the badly needed but funding un-friendly) office supplies
and pay-rolls...

Whilst the board of directors is looking at these points I would also like
to take this opportunity to raise some related issues to do with funding
and also the strategies rhizome recently has put into place (partly to
raise money).

Firstly the web hosting packages,
Although this is a good package and the hosting company seem fine,
I'm wondering if it could be targeted better to the meet the needs of the
'starving artists' who I would guess would claim to make up quite a
considerable amount of the rhizome membership. After all there are lots
of ISPs out there, why choose to go through rhizome?
What is being offering seems to me to be a nice, sensible business
package for web hosting. The trouble is that many of the the users of
rhizome probably aren't running 'nice, sensible' projects or if they are
(or using web hosting for their own businesses) by the time they join
rhizome they are already sorted with their own tried and trusted ISP.
Perhaps, what the users of rhizome really need (and what would make
rhizomes packages 'different') is a package targeted specifically for
net. artworks/projects.
By this I mean, that when producing a small/medium web-based
work/projects in my own experience, what I can't afford is a monthly
outgoing, even when as little as $14 (which seems the minimum on this
account). Many of the web hosting companies now provide a 'bottom-
rung' package That is a one off payment including 1-2 yr domain
registration and setup and $0 monthly hosting and (typically) 20 -40
MB space. No frills no service (outside basic tech support and
forwarding email accounts) but ideal for web based artworks as the fee
is small and you can be set upand be online in 24hrs. I myself currently
have 3 projects set up like this. For example my cyber-kitchen (which
involves 72 artists) has cost me in total

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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">My 'light from the machine' just happens
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