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Lowell Jacobs MFA
Master Electrician /
Lead Audio Engineer
School of Theater
Ohio University
2006 - Present
Courses: Sound Production, Sound Design, Stage Electrics
Installation Artist working in New Media / Performance / and Technology in the Arts.
Professional Entertainment Technician.
IMDB Page http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414528/
Boom Operator, Freelance 1994-2005
Phoenix, AZ and Southwest
1 theatrically released feature, 100's of National Commercials, a dozen made for TV movies,
dozens of Industrials, dozens of shorts and experimental works.
Audio Engineer, Freelance 1994-2005
Phoenix, AZ and Southwest
Hundreds of Conventions, Expositions, Trade Shows, Concerts…
Lighting Designer, Freelance 1994-2005
Phoenix, AZ and Southwest
Hundreds of Conventions, Expositions, Trade Shows, Concerts…
Instructor
Ohio University 2006 - present
School of Theater
Sound Production, Sound Design, Stage Electrics, Intro to Stage Lighting and Sound
Scottsdale Community College 2003-2004
Media Arts Program Courses: Video Production, Video Art
Staff Lighting and Sound Designer Mesa Community College 1997-2001
Nominated in the 11th Annual Arizoni Theatre Awards, Sound Design for "Lysistrata",
10/2001 Excellence in non contracted Theatre during the 200-2001 Season, Theatre Outback,
Mesa Community College Nominated in the 11th Annual Arizoni Theatre Awards,
Lighting Design for "One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 9/2001 Excellence in non
contracted Theatre during the 200-2001 Season, Theatre Outback, Mesa Community College
Selected Exhibitions / Screenings / Design / Curation (I own UnionArts exhibition space - www.unionarts.net)
"Searching" 2/08
Jeff Lovett
Nearly 10,000 satellites now orbit Earth, constantly passing over our heads unseen.
Searching, a photobased art installation. - Curated by Lowell Jacobs.
Biomodd [ATH1] 1/08
A Living Game Computer as a Social Sculpture
The @Lab (Aesthetic Technologies Lab) hosts guest artist Angelo Vermeulen PhD.
Angelo brings us a multi-discipline collaborative expression where computers, living organisms,
and a multi player game server share a symbiotic relationship.
Lowell Jacobs functioned as a collaborator in the installation working with audio and video.
LOCAL WORKS 4/07
Chris Monday - Mixed Media, Emily Simkins - Paintings, Bryan Wollock - Portraits in Fire and Wood,
Gallum - Paintings, Tom Sweet - Paintings, Marin Abel - Digital Images, Lowell Jacobs - 8 Channel
Video Installation, Evidence. UnionArts, Athens Ohio
FLUX CAPACITOR 3/16-17th 2007
In conjunction with The American Dance Festival, UnionArts hosts Flux Capacitor.
Dance, Technology, Video Installation, Performance Art, and Some High Tech Music...
Artists: Lowell Jacobs, Marlon Barrios Solano, Julie Cruse, Nina Caparole, Marin Abell, DJ Danger.
UnionArts, Athens Ohio
"Wait Until Dark"
Directed by Emily Prince, Ohio Valley Summer Theater Production 2007
Lowell Jacobs - Sound Design
"Conference of The Birds Project"
Directed by William Fisher, Ohio University School of Theater 2007
Lowell Jacobs - Sound Design 2007
"Et Tu Bonzo"
33rd Annual Athens Film and Video Fest 2006
Satirical Short Political comedy.
Written and Directed by Lowell Jacobs 2004
"Mad Cow"
33rd Annual Athens Film and Video Fest, 2006
Single channel video from 2001 Hyper Mediated Live Performance Lowell Jacobs, Steve Kostell
"P.O.I. Point of Interest"
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2004 Herberger College of Fine Art,
Arizona State University
"Mad Cow"
No Festival Film Fest, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ 2002
Single channel video from 2001 Hyper Mediated Live Performance Lowell Jacobs, Steve Kostell
"Hoover Drama"
Seventh Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, 2003
From Media Research Vehicle and POI Projects.
Program went on to tour 5 cities, including California State University (Fullerton CA),
Grand Central Arts Center (Santa Ana, CA) Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Santa Barbara, CA).
"ZP Industries"
No Festival Film Fest, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ 2002
single channel video from the 2001 installation and durational performance Zero - Plus with Steve Kostell.
"A City Planned"
Stop N' Look Gallery, Phoenix AZ 2002
6 - channel video installation commissioned by Stop N' Look Artists Window Project.
In collaboration with Brooke Grucella.
"ZP Industries"
No Festival Film Fest, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ 2002
single channel video from the 2001 installation and durational performanceZero - Plus with Steve Kostell.
"Mad Cow"
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, July 14, 2001- August 19, 2001
hyper-mediated technology based performance gesturing towards connections in our modern consumer
culture ideology and Mad Cow disease. Co-created and directed with Steve Kostell.
Stand alone single track video piece was recognized in the emerging artist category, and included
in Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art's "Video Jam" Exhibition organized by PBICA and curated
by Michael Rush, director, PBICA and Galen Joseph-Hunter, associate director, Electronic Arts Intermix,
New York.
"Zero-Plus"
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. November 2001
ZP Industries on site durational performance / multi channel audio and video installation with
Artists Lowell Jacobs and Steve Kostell.
"Co-Motion"
Stop N' Look Gallery, Phoenix AZ 2000
7-channel video installation commissioned by
Stop N' Look Artists Window Project in collaboration
with Artists Lowell Jacobs, Steve Kostell, and Anna Vida.
Video Work:
"Cherished Memories" 2004
Single channel video about a well to do Lady and a Tennis Instructor in El Rancho,
California in 1973. Collaboration with Kathryn Pinto
"Barcode" 2003
Infomercial for "THE" system that brings your world into numerical data-tracking order!
Order Control, Inventory Status, Data Tracking
"Today And The Future" 2003
Live action and found footage. Video Short.
"NTS Proofs" 2003
From Media Research Vehicle and POI Projects.
Single Channel experimental video on The Nevada Test Site
"Dirty Bomb" 2004
From Media Research Vehicle and POI Projects.
Single Channel experimental video about our post 9-11 world
"Armargosa Flats" 2004
From Media Research Vehicle and POI Projects.
Single channel experimental video about the Nevada Test Site Lowell Jacobs, Joe Rheume
GCRP - Gestural Control Research Performance 2004
Arizona State University, Intermedia Lab
Single channel video of 3 channel video projected live performance using Pure Data video
and audio manipulation interfaced via VCA outputs on a PAiA Theremax Theremin.
With Projectionist and VJ Robert Berg and Musician Joe Rheume.
"Flat" 2002
Single channel experimental work about the dark side of Phoenix AZ
"The Kill: Perceptional Shit and the Things We Hear" 2001
Single channel experimental video montage, social commentary
"Operetta; The Oldest Story Ever Looped"
Single channel video from internet web-cam project. Web cam video feeds were
"fed back" to create visuals that had traveled all around the world,
modified by often unknown collaborators in other countries. Elements were then
edited to be characters to tell the classic story of the hero, antagonism, struggle,
defeat, and rebirth. 2000
"Them 2" 2000
Single Channel experimental video dealing with "urban night" in Phoenix, AZ.
Audio Works:
Numerous independent releases under:
ZP Industries
JacoByte Productions
Haz Mat Media
Love Hammer Records
Tra La La Media
Tape Germ Collective
Live performance in working bands since 1987:
Crème Flip
Appalachian Death Ride
Happening With The Mustang
Kim Chee and the Cherry Blossoms
Throttle Lords
Consumer Electronics
Lamb Mallet
DJ Super Size + many smaller and one off projects
Community Service:
Videographer: Shelter Against Violence, A documentary video by Artist Muriel Magenta.
Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe
Ordained Minister, performs weddings for Blue Collar, Social Servants, and other hard working people for free.
Arizona Dept. of Game and Fish Hunters Education Program Instructor on Firearms Safety and Desert Survival