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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.

They can be reached at jac.jaconetta@gmail.com




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From Alumninum to Space Gray is a three channel video that considers how
aluminum aesthetics are used to signal futurity, mobility, and progress. The
footage surveys the mid-20th century US aluminum industry, the advent of CGI in
Terminator II and ‘90s media, and the contemporary use of aluminum in Apple
products. These scenes that blur agile, able, white bodies with pliable aluminum
matter are haunted by the legacy of aluminum production that uses land and
laborers alike as resources to maintain the social mobility of some over others.

3 Channel Video
Total Runtime 2:58











A Thousand Identical Dorothys is a digital filing system of indexed text and
image files. Comprised largely of screenshots and original text, the files trace
how bodies, user-interfaces, and commodities are haunted by the labor that
shapes them. The project is interested in the ways constructed identities such
as "girl" become legible, approximated, and proliferated. The folder is
available for download below as a ZIP. Alternatively, the content has been
reformatted and handbound into a self-published book.

A Thousand Identical Dorothys dot Zip





“In Search of A Clear Reflecting Pool or Mirror” (2019) is loosely based on a
quest, reminiscent of those from low-tech video games. The video progresses from
bird’s eye perspective to first person point-of-view, as a subject searches for
their reflection. Animations of an avatar moving through maze-like circuitry are
paired with records of being read, misread, and reflected back to oneself. This
includes screen recordings of the artist reverse image searching their own
selfies, to find that google variously identifies them as boy, girl, and
domestic long-haired cat. Moments of distortion such as this are offered in
tandem with expressions of longing and instances of being seen that are so often
sought after in digital spaces.







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