Paper Rad is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, a collection of Rhode Island-based art from around. 2001 to 2008. Known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations and music with different "lo-fi" aesthetes often associated with underground or 1990s "retro tech" , juxtaposed images and displaying vibrant colors.
Video Paper Rad
Histori
The three main members are Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci, and Ben Jones, but additionally include Paul Bright, David Wightman, Sonja Radovancevic, Extreme Animals and others.
Paper Rad is exhibited in several major galleries including PaceWildenstein, New Contemporary Art Museum, and Deitch Project. This collective published a book, Maps Paper Rad
Style
Paper Rad calls his style "Dogman 99", a drama on the moviegoing movement of Dogme 95. According to one of his project websites, Dogman 99 rules are: "No Wacom tablets, no scanning, just pure RGB colors, just fake tweening, and as many alpha tricks as possible. "
Visual Paper Paper projects often use bright fluorescent palettes juxtaposed with primary colors to create a distinctive "lo-fi" look. It adopts various techniques and elements to achieve this look, including pop art, collage, punk art, as well as images of popular culture. Multimedia projects incorporate MIDI audio, poor recording of original sound and sound effects, pixelization, and other raw audio and visual components. Paper Rad recycles or adjusts vague sounds and images from various sources, including old cartoons, commercials, and late-night television.
In the early 2000s the Paper Rad website featured early GIF arts as well as a connected image maze in the "Dogman 99" style.
Collaboration & amp; Other Works
Super Mario Bros. Movie
Paper Rad collaborated with multi-media artist Cory Arcangel to create Super Mario Bros. Movie , a 15 minute video about the life and time of Nintendo Mario. This section consists of a video game cartridge-a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System where backgrounds and scenarios are changed and rearranged into a narrative story about the game world being corrupted and Mario's existence crisis about becoming a video game character. The film debuted at Deitch Projects in New York in 2005.
File Wyld
The Wyld file consists of duo Ben Jones and Jacob Ciocci, in collaboration with Eric Mast (better known as E * ROCK). Wyld File is a commercial entity that creates lo-fi music videos for artists such as Islands, The Gossip ("Stand on the Road of Control"), and Beck ("Gameboy Homeboy").
Television
Ben Jones collaborated with PFFR and Williams Street on a pilot for Adult Swim entitled Neon Knome . It's authorized by the network and then becomes a re-brand as a Cartoon Network event called The Problem Solverz .
References
External links
- The Paper Rad website
- Foxy Production Gallery
- Website Wyld File
- Ben Jones Fan Club!
- Ratface Dreamangel Catalog
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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