Author Archives: Jacob Ciocci

SPRING 2012

PROMOTION/UPDATES/CV/DIARY/NO ONE CARES: 1. Some hot Extreme Animals shows coming up at the end of April/Beginning of May, including Rhizome 2012 fundraiser, Black Dice BBQ, and Cornell University. Dates are here as always please tell your friends I might 4get 2 tweet. 2. “Am I Evil” and “Questions of the Ages”, 2 recent videos are showing/were [...]

February 2012

MORE UPDATES: 1) If you haven’t seen our video and musical remix for pictureplane’s “body mods”, here it is: Pictureplane “Body Mods” remix by Extreme Animals from Jacob Ciocci on Vimeo. This was blogged about on rhizome and dis magazine, 2 of my favorite websites of all time! #proud 2)Some of my drawings and “color [...]

November 2011 News

Hi Everyone! More late-2011 updates: 1. David Wightman and I are talking this Friday (November 18th) at Columbia University on a panel entitled “Instrumentalization Of Music” about the crossover between art and music worlds. Other panelists include Zach Layton, Tristan Perich, Howie Chen, Khaela Maricich, and Melissa Dyne (that’s a sick lineup). 632 west 125th street Prentis Hall [...]

A New Video, YouTube and Copyright

An interesting thing occurred the other night as I logged on to the old Paper Rad YouTube account after almost a year of not using it. I was logging on to post this new video I just finished: Before I could post my video I was confronted with a mandatory “copyrite school” (is it illegal [...]

Fall 2011 News

Hi Everyone Just some updates on what I am up to right now (September/October/November 2011): 1. I made a 50-minute “epic” audio mix in collaboration with David from Extreme Animals for Mixpak FM. And it was blogged about by MTV here! 2. Extreme Animals is playing the VIA music and new media festival in Pittsburgh on October 7th. [...]

Summer 2011 updates

Hello Everyone!! Here are some things I have been doing recently: 1. An interview with Ian Glover for Rhizome.org 2. “Am I Evil?” A new video/collage piece I finished for the Pittsburgh Biennial, at the PCA in Pittsburgh–on view until October 2011! 3. A lecture/performance with Ryder Ripps about “what it means 2 B Extreme”, [...]

4Chan and Paper Rad, 2011

Ben Jones is working on a new show for Cartoon Network and it’s first episode aired last night. I did a little searching and found a 4Chan thread discussing the first episode, which then seemed to develop into a discussion about Paper Rad, the art collective I devoted 6 years of my life to. It [...]