Category Archives: News About Me

news about me, my projects, and activities I am involved with

FALL 2012 LIFE UPDATES

1.I have some work up in Toronto at Cooper Cole Gallery until October 6th. One of the pieces is a new video/collage piece called “I Am An Artist” about the Blue Man Group, which in this gallery documentation is the piece on the right wall. Jacob Ciocci / Experience the Creativity / September 6 – [...]

SPRING 2012

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 recently shown at [...]

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 [...]

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”, [...]

Stress Boxes in Spain

One of my older videos “How To Escape From the Stress Boxes” is screening at the Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival, as a part of a night of film and video curated by Ben Russel. Info is here: http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ficha_pelicula.asp?IdPeli=202 Pamplona Spain, 22-27 of February, 2011 “There are two ways of approaching the work [...]