views from the ground floor...

Jess Loseby

views from the ground floor... project page

'Views from the ground floor...' - a net.film (Flash Video) is a networked installation, a view of a pixilated domestic landscape, which can seem in one scene, utopian and in another transformed into a constricted area full of suppressed fears and desires. Loseby draws unexpected and compelling comparisons between female domesticity and cyber-culture; where low and high technology live side-by-side in an uneasy partnership of repetition, interaction and consequences. Her positioning as a wheelchair-user means these visions are always viewed from the ground floor...