Paper Rad is an influential component in the East coast DIY sub-culture of noise musicians, performance artists, zine-makers, and cartoonists, The three primary members (Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci, Ben Jones) began as an entity in 2001 in Boston. They now reside in Pittsburgh and Providence. Their videos, comic books, drawings, paintings, music and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from both contemporary and previous eras of popular culture, synthesizing material from television, video games, comics and the internet. Paper Rad disseminates their work through a variety of outlets including, their website; self-published and mass-produced DVDs and comics; touring; and through word-of-mouth. Their work has been shown at MOMA (Automatic Update, 2007); the New Museum (ArtBase 101, Paper Rad & Matt Barton, 2005); The ArtReview 25 at Phillips de Pury, New York (2005); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2003), Tate Britain, London (2003); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2003).