JAC JACONETTA
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In the form of videos, sculptural objects, and text Jac Jaconetta considers the intersections between embodiment, technology, and the production of gender.
Their work focuses on the array of interfaces and systems that are instrumental in our making. By staying close to how things are made, they hope to witness how technologies and subjects shape each other and form feedback loops.
Jaconetta received their BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. They have exhibited at Miranda Kuo Gallery, The NARS Foundation, and The RISD Museum, among others. Their writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and in their self-published artist's book A Thousand Identical Dorothys. They are currently working on a video surveying significant queer waterfronts throughout history, combining live action and animation to write a queer mythology of water.
In recent years following a medical leave they began learning to tattoo, their experiences with chronic illness guiding this turn to the body. Approaching the body as something malleable - for the body itself to be media - is, for them, incredibly trans. They hope to offer the wearer of their tattoos a felt sense of transformation and a little magic in the making.
Jaconetta received their BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. They have exhibited at Miranda Kuo Gallery, The NARS Foundation, and The RISD Museum, among others. Their writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and in their self-published artist's book A Thousand Identical Dorothys. They are currently working on a video surveying significant queer waterfronts throughout history, combining live action and animation to write a queer mythology of water.
In recent years following a medical leave they began learning to tattoo, their experiences with chronic illness guiding this turn to the body. Approaching the body as something malleable - for the body itself to be media - is, for them, incredibly trans. They hope to offer the wearer of their tattoos a felt sense of transformation and a little magic in the making.