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Jess Loseby is an established net and digital artist from the UK. She exhibits in national and international projects both on and off line. Her work ranges from small and intimate online installations to large scale digital projections and video. She has been invited to become the artist in residence at furtherfield.org - one of the first Internet residencies of it's kind. Loseby's unashamedly low-tec net installations and video build comparisons of the network and digitality in its frustrations, attention to triviality and repetition as absurdly compatible to the female domestic routine. Themes dealing with individuality and cyber-identityreoccur frequently as do the faces of her three children who seem to be bound up irrevocably with her digital 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. 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. She regularly works with the composer Clive Loseby whose music is a vital part of her explorations.