Introducing... Paper Rad, an online entity remotely created from Western Massachusetts and Pittsburg, PA. www.paperrad.org is not much different than its author's first websites in the 90's. It is mostly made with Dreamweaver, or simple html code. They use Photoshop for most of the graphics and Fractal Design's Painter for the more labor intensive, web-fresoc work, and if painter crashes, they use flash to animate the gifs. "We tend to not tend to the majority of 3rd party (art world, web design firms) interaction/ influence on the brand/ product shelf life of "Paper Rad" and we feel our website is as natural as a final project from a continuing education class on 'scrap-booking'."

www.paperrad.org's insane bright colors, and crazy funky insane sights and insane sounds are sure to be a crazy trippy fun corpro-punkworld quazy trance of an insane-quake with plenty of pro-d.i.y. crazy collage and sike-out noise to bring out all your 80's CDs! At once critical and affirmative, artist collective Paper Rad synthesizes popular material from television, comics, video games, and advertising, allowing these materials to contextualize and cross-reference each other. Paper Rad is Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob and their friend Ben Jones. Since the year 2000 they have created a massive catalogue of self-published and self-distributed comics and magazines, vhs tv videos, audio cassette tapes, hand-painted t-shirts, stuffed sewn dolls, audio cd-rs, and records. Their website, paperrad.org, celebrates as much as it critiques self-publishing and the internet, merging design and content into one free Mega-Mall information overload for your spirit.

PAPER RAD'S BIO:

Jacob Ciocci (1977) holds BA in computer science and art from Oberlin College, Jessica Ciocci (1976) holds BA in psychology and art from Wellesley College, and Benjamin Jones (1977) holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Paper Rad has screened, performed and exhibited at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2003);Tate Britain, London (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003); the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2003); Deitch Projects, New York (2003);The New York Underground Film Festival (2003);Ocularis Cinema, Brooklyn (2003); Team, New York (2003); Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2002). Paper Rad has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Art Review, Mute, Vice, Issue, Select and in Internet Art, edited by Rachel Green and published by Thames and Hudson (2004). They also recently participated in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.

They are online at PAPER RAD

When asked what books they were currently reading they responded: "The Feverhead" by Wolfgang Bauer (awesome), and almost done with "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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