Talking Together - Jess Loseby & Tara Noid - Click Click Click
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Having seen your work, there is a recognisable voice in for instance "light from the machine", as well as "isolationbreedscontempt". There was gravitas, some presence that was very strong. A broadness and groundedness. Can you relate to this?

"Isolationbreedscontempt", is quite scathing, a strong presence, to unsettle others; the frames could be difficult to use on some computers, the music was unsettling, so you wonder what's going on here. I am in control in this piece.

Being in control?

You have to click, you have to get through, every now and than I am gonna jump up and you find pop-ups and strange coded signs. I know what I mean, but are you gonna spend time to work it all out?

In several of your pieces, there was an invitation to stay. I felt the question that came over to me was "are you gonna stay"?

That's about the click click click, the sound-bites of the art. It's me kicking back and my traditional roots showing themselves, it is the click click click, play play play - what can you do with it? I say NO - you stop and look at it. See if you can see what I am saying; see if you can listen and if you are not interested just bugger of. But don't just click, click, click. When you work hard enough, you find the question. The clues, the codes, the idea of words within words, it comes back to messages within text, and secret messages. Secrets have always interested me and subscripts, that's the thing with the internet, this idea of the code, that's why I am partly not getting into html because you have this code in the background and I am not sure what it is saying and what secrets are being given away. I want to be in charge of what secrets are being given away. This is a theme that goes through everything, can you find me, can you put energy into me....


Isolation Breeds Contempt

Your pieces are emotionally demanding. How many people are there looking at net art who are prepared to be emotionally provoked, something real to happen to them?

I am making the work for one other person. My view is that it does not matter if x people move on, it's that one person that stops - that one other person that's on my mind. It's bizarre in a global medium, but there it is. In the end it's one person in front of their machine, they are likely to have the machine in their home, I am coming into their homes and I am talking to this one person.

That's quiet seductive I think.

Its emotional interaction, I demand a lot but I also give a lot, I will be faithful. There was a really interesting post on rhizome last night, basically it was talking about emotional engagement and why critics and institutions did not go there. That emotional and personal based art wasn't reviewed and it was not seen and it was not hyped and it was not backed, and he was saying: is it emotional laziness? Is it just they don't want to get involved in this arena, that they don't want to get down to that level? I am gonna print it out and stick it on my wall, cause I quite like that.


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