Almost all of Roberto Jacoby's work has been collaborative. In 1966, he proposed a dematerialized art genre that made use of social material, the mass media, and various communication structures; the first of these works was produced by the group arte de los medios. In Mensaje en el Di Tella (1968), he formulated art as the "design of new life forms." In 1969, after the Tucuman Arde communications campaign and the publication of the clandestine magazine Sobre, he gave up working in the visual arts and instead investigated social conflict and political epistemology. In the 1980's, he wrote songs for the pop group Virus and organized multimedia parties and shows, among others, for the Club Social Deportivo y Cultural Eros, an anti-discotheque movement in neighborhood clubs. Later, he developed and promoted Fabulous Nobodies, a productless brand, and Yo tengo sida, an anti-discrimination campaign. Since 1998, he has been involved in conceiving and developing networks of artists and non-artists, such as the online database Bola de Nieve, the Chacra99 workshop, the magazine Ramona, the Proyecto Venus micro-society, He published the novel Moncada with Jorge Di Paola and the booklet OrgÌa. In 2001 he held his first solo show at the GalerÌa Belleza y Felicidad. He presented Darkroom, a performance for infrared rays and a single viewer, at that same gallery, and subsequently in MALBA in 2005. He also started CulÌsimo, an ongoing project on prisons as language factories. In 2006, he created Darkroom III, an audiovisual installation for four viewers at the 29th Pontevedra Art Biennial.
Source: e-flux
