Jen Southern is a UK artist who works collaboratively with Jen Hamilton & Chris St Amand.

Hamilton, Southern & St Amand have a social and tactile approach to the use of technology. They work with groups of people to explore a location and are currently interested in how technologies, such as satellite navigation, can be used to explore a kinaesthetic sense of place through movement. Their work is made through residencies that engage with local people, producing installations, performances and websites. Hamilton & Southern have also worked closely with a games company to produce 'Landlines', a collaborative mapping tool for mobile phones. Landlines was used to transmit live GPS data to Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK (2006) where the artists sewed the routes onto a 5x5m canvas. Running Stitch was also exhibited at the Hannah McClure Centre in Dundee (2008), and the dislocate festival, Yokoham, Japan (2008). 'Running Stitch' is an ongoing project that will evolve as it visits different cities and spaces, and will be shown next in 'Open Source Embroidery' exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (June 2009).
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Jen Southern's individual practice is process based and participatory, exploring art practice as a social process. Technologies such as mobile phones and videogames are ubiquitous, and have added a layer of virtual space to our internal atlas of remembered places. In collaboration with other artists, technologists or members of the public she works with these hybrid places as lived environments. From learning to fly a light aircraft to making videogame clothing for children, the work is experimental, and plays with the idea of what it might mean to inhabit media.

Jen Southern lives and works in Huddersfield, UK. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and a member of BASE.