Jess Rowland is a post-punk computer programmer and destroyer, leader of the cult of the Electromagnetic Goddess, her own Goddess to channel herself in her performances. Jess is the paradigm of whatever wave of feminism we are on right now: Jess is authentic even though she is making it all up. The two cultures she is blending are cyberculture and internet culture. She is an academic and underground artist working in the US. Her provenance and aesthetic come from and have a deep interplay with punk. Jess engages with hardware and networks on a sculptural level looking at the very physical and natural principles that govern the behaviour of the materials she works with.