Jacob Ciocci (born 1977) is an American visual artist, performance artist, musician, and professor. Along with sister

Jessica Ciocci Jessica Ciocci (born 1976) is an American artist working in a range of mediums including animation and video, Twitter, crafting, digital online projects, comics, mixtapes, performance, painting, drawing and sculpture. Ciocci was a founding member ...

and friend Ben Jones, he was one of the three founding members of

Paper Rad ''Paper Rad'' was an art collective from approx. 2000 until 2008, based on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island. Known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and mu ...

, an

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active from 2000 until 2008. He performs and tours regularly with drummer David Wightman in the band "Extreme Animals". As of 2015, he is based in

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, New York.

About

Jacob Ciocci was born in 1977 in Lexington,

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. He received his B.A. in

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from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

. As a student at Oberlin College, Ciocci met

Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is an American post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is best known. Arcangel often uses the ...

and Paul B. Davis, and in 2000 Arcangel and Davis formed the experimental music collaboration Beige Programming Ensemble. Ciocci received his M.F.A. in art from

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

in 2005. Jacob and his sister Jessica became active in Paper Rad after moving to Boston and hanging out with Joe Grillo, Ben Jones, and

Christopher Forgues Christopher "Chris" Forgues, (also known professionally as C.F. and Kites), is an artist and musician, best known for his graphic novel serial ''Powr Mastrs''. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island. About He holds a B.F.A. from the Massach ...

(C.F.). All of them were interested in zine making, experimental art and music, and computers, which opened up the possibility of multimedia work. In 2006, Ciocci received a 'Creative Heights' Grant from

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to be the Artist in Residence at the

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Pittsburgh Filmmakers was one of the oldest and largest media arts centers in the United States, operating from 1971 to 2019. The non-profit institution in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began as a filmmaking equipment access cooperative founded by cur ...

film cooperative. Ciocci was a Research Resident Fellow at Eyebeam in 2010–2011.

Teaching

Jacob Ciocci is currently an assistant professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at

DePaul University DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...

in Chicago. Since 2017, he is the co-chair of DePaul's Animation MFA program. In 2015, he was a visiting professor at Oberlin College in the Integrated Media department.

References

External links

Jacob's official websiteJacob's faculty page at DePaul University
*Podcast
Humor and the Abject: 98 Jacob Ciocci
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