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*Next at HTTP:// =======================* **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: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827 ============================= 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. * *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 ============================= *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: [log in to unmask] 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