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Within an art context I tell stories using the mediums of comics, multi-media performance installations, film and theater.

JULIACKS in COMICS: I have been published in magazines and anthologies such as "Article (San Francisco)," "Windy Corner (Portland)," "Unicorn Mountain (Pittsburgh)," "The New Yinzer (Pittsburgh)," "The Flying Destructicate (Pittsburgh.) and numerous issues of Kutikuti in Finland. My comic, Swell Part One, was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Most Outstanding Mini Comic of 2008. In 2009 I made a collaborative comic book with Olga Volozova, Rock That Never Sleeps that was published by Sparkplug Comics. "Invisible Forces," the newest book was completed in a residency at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm where I also completed and printed the graphic novel, Swell in a limited art edition. Swell has just been printed in an off-set edition for its stage adaptation.

A new book, is in progress-the first part will be completed at the Manitoba Printmaker's Association in November 2012.

JULIACKS in PERFORMANCE THEATRE/EXHIBITION/ART IN A VARIETY OF SPACES AND CONTEXTS
I have performed and exhibited at venues ranging from galleries in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Finland, Estonia and Sweden to Cabarets/Festivals/Literary Programs in Pittsburgh, Toronto, Helsinki and New York to the Andy Warhol Museum and Children's Museum in Pittsburgh to an abandoned generator gallery in Pori, a social services institute in Helsinki, and a special effects warehouse in Stockholm.

New performances made for Architecture of An Atom relate to the materiality of film, the construction of groups and conflict-they are quasi operas taking on different forms and contexts. They want to be personal and spectacular and weird and happy and horribly dark/heavy/unbearable at the same time. Is peace possible?

Since 2007 I have been making performance art related to the comic book, Swell with 15 instances in Australia, the USA, Finland, Canada, and Sweden. In Pittsburgh I won an award for artistic excellence for the performance, "Egg Ceremony."

Since 2008 I have been collaborating with New York based Director Kathleen Amshoff on a narrative adaptation of this comic into a play. we presented an excerpt of Swell for the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Director's Weekend in 2011. In December of 2010 Amshoff and I presented a different excerpt for the multimedia variety show Komixblender.

We are happy to say that this March 2012, Swell headlines Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival! In the fall of 2012 the Swell production will go to the Atomic Center in Winnipeg, Canada for its Canadian premiere!

JULIACKS in FILM/ANIMATION: Coming from an alternative comics and performance-installation art background- I synthesized elements of these mediums into a narrative film-Invisible Forces-while on a Fulbright grant for performance art. This film portrays a psychological narrative with formal aspects that look upon the history of film and video into the present day. The film combines 16 mm footage with video, 2D and film scratch animation and data moshing. This film received the support of the Earl Roth Endowment Award and the Theatre Academy of Helsinki.

The new film and trans-media project, "Architecture of An Atom" has commenced with shoots in Italy, Sweden and Finland this past summer.

The Main story line production will commence in France June 2012 with the support of the post-diplôme program at ENSBA-Lyon. Shoots are planned for New York in April and Winnipeg in November.

JULIACKS AS ORGANIZER: In the DIY mode, I have also become an initiator/organizer and in so doing-a curator-although the title feels kind of uncomfortable at times..curating and producing events and exhibitions extends my aspirations of making "total art" by finding the limitations and confluences of what happens when different disciplines are brought together in one instance.