[spectre] Eating Canvas by Jess Loseby : 1st - 27th March 2005

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*Next at HTTP://
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*Jess Loseby : Eating Canvas**

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to 
meet the artist in person.

Artist's Private View 7pm Tuesday 1st March 2004
then open 1st - 27th March 2005, Friday- Sunday 12 -5pm

Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

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*HTTP presents Eating Canvas by UK digital artist Jess Loseby.* A new 
media installation of digital paintings on a range of canvas: fabric, 
screen, paper and televisions.

This warm and evocative cyber domestic work is a convergence of personal 
and political aesthetics that is reflective and declares a conscious 
subjectivity. Loseby's internationally recognised net artworks always 
demonstrate a keen alertness to her's and her viewers' positioning in 
physical, virtual and political space.

In this exhibition visitors are offered another experience of these 
relational dynamics. A bank of newspaper-covered TVs loop 10 video clips 
of meal-times in the artist's house. Viewers are invited to interact 
with the same video loops using a touch screen to display a large scale 
digital painting overlayed with headlines streamed live from online news 
networks.
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*Artist's Statement**

"digital aesthetics can be said to position the spectator on the 
threshold of the virtual and actual..." - Digital Incompossibility: 
Cruising The Aesthetic Haze Of The New Media-Timothy Murray

"My work is political in nature; I sit in the relational space between 
the world of family domestic politics and the national domestic politics 
of a country in flux. "Eating Canvas" continues my fascination with 
borderlands and 'beautiful seams' between apparently juxtaposed worlds: 
domesticity and technology and the politics of home and country.

Over domestic scenes the "paintings" call live RSS feeds (Really Simple 
Syndication) from freely available, online, mainstream public news 
sources. These feeds are made up of headlines and abstracts of current 
events. Because the feeds are streamed directly from an external news 
site they are updated at least every 24 hours (but can be updated every 
minute dependant on "breaking news"). Particular feeds have been chosen 
to reflect UK domestic news and politics which creates an evolving and 
fluid textual layer over the images of domestic politics of the home.The 
feeds have been further augmented by the use of css styles to disrupt 
and re-present the information, literally feeding the "paintings" as 
their subjects eat.

My journey into digital art began with a laptop on the kitchen table 
from which I could operate a limited artistic practice whist chasing my 
eighteen-month old son around the house. Thus, the kitchen table became 
my portal to digitality, a significance that not only became the hub of 
my digital practice (as it is the hub of my domesticity) but the centre 
of my desire to outwork my thematics - the cyber-chick - sitting 
somewhere between the microwave and the modem."- Jess Loseby

Credits: This work would not have been possible without the assistance 
of ACE and the open source code "feed2js" of Alan Levine (Maricopa 
Community Colleges).


**About Jess Loseby**

Jess Loseby is a digital artist from the UK whose main medium is the 
Internet. Her work ranges from small and intimate online installations 
to large-scale digital projections and video. She has exhibited in 
digital festivals and exhibitions internationally: such as Siggraph, 
Split Film Festival, Pixxelpoint and FILE. Her work crosses a variety of 
media and platforms: from intimate interactive installations in national 
touring exhibitions such as Spectrum 2003 to creating digital sets for 
the production of 'The Dadaists' at The Met Theatre in Hollywood. She is 
currently the commissioned Digital artist for Babylon Gallery, Ely.

Thematically, her projects continue her fascination with borderlands and 
'beautiful seams' between the ubiquitous worlds of computing and the 
'real' (domestic). Loseby's unashamedly low-tech approach to new media 
builds 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 time
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*Gallery URL* - http://www.http.uk.net/

Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

 
Press release for print (322k)  
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib3/eating_canvas.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm

HTTP:// is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of 
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org