For Immediate Release
December 12, 2002
Turbulence Artist's Studio: Jess Loseby
http://turbulence.org/studios/loseby/jessloseby.htm

Jess Loseby's work has always been marked by the presence of the
domestic and the inconsequential. Unashamedly lo-tech, her work builds
comparisons of the network in its frustrations, attention to triviality
and repetition as absurdly compatible to the female domestic routine.
Themes dealing with individuality and cyber-identity reoccur frequently
as do the faces of her three children who seem to be bound up
irrevocably with her net self. Replicated images and mirrors are used as
a representation of the darkened reflection of the user in the monitor
screen as if to constantly remind the viewer that they are dealing with
human expressions embedded with the data streams.

The weight of networked peer pressure haunts the work through its
darkness and abstracted texts, which often seem to speak of isolation
and confusion or kick back in fits of bloody- mindedness. There is also
often a dark humour within the installations she creates, although this
is often misinterpreted as flippancy. Traditional values of aesthetics
and narratives are outworked through the use of muted colours and
evocative imagery. Jess regularly works with the composer Clive Loseby
whose music is a vital part of her explorations. Translocal
schizophrenia is embraced as a natural part of a female artist working
on the net, although she admits her work often feels like a girl trying
to join in the games in a boys adventure playground