Mating for Life: Jess Loseby @ furtherfield.org

screen). It's domesticity pushed to its homicidal, fight-or-flight dark side; the loving mother will, of course, kill anthing that threatens to harm her children.

Often these days I wonder what academics will make of this particular period of artistic endeavor, and how hypermedia will be perceived. The only thing I don't like here, in the online art of Jess Loseby, is that at times I find myself wishing for interfaces that were more complex. In Hello, Loseby speaks to us one word at a time in white Times Roman on a matte black screen; no music, no click-and-go, just one word popping up right after the other to form a friendly, breezy paragraph. However, my gender may be getting in the way of my enjoyment of pieces like this: like theory, code may someday come to seem a patriarchal concept. a leftover whiff of the father, who may or may not be hungry enough to eat his own young. In the same way Gertrude Stein's work has been lauded by some feminist critics for omitting by degrees the phallocentric narrative and development ghost, Jess' work here may be quite conceptually solid (as if a work really ever needs to be): I miss the code because I'm male, and I want action, movement, as opposed to this rather quiet and domestic teletype text. It's talking to me, slowly, but I'm not listening. I want food.

 

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