Interviews and Press

Expanded Bio

Jamie/James in "musician mode."
Jamie Curcio creates narratives, essays and various works of fact, fiction and in-between for consumption by the general public as well as academia. Previous projects have taken the form of subversive novels, essays, scripts for comic and films, albums, soundtracks, podcasts, mixed media visual art, and performances. He lives with a harem of feral lesbians and cats somewhere in the mountains of West Philadelphia and lives exclusively on mochas, lion milk, and raw honey.
James in "film mode
  He is known for collaborations that bridge expectations of medium and genre, which both challenges the audience, and also the business "boxes" created by agents and agencies alike. This creative challenge has also been a business one, only fairly recently overturned by a recognition of the scope of the work being created through constant work to sell that boundary pushing as a positive.
  A "unique creative process" only scratches the surface, and each project seems to transcend the expectations or boundaries laid out by the previous. This explains why he has stuck to doing most booking and press himself with the assistance of his incredibly talented wife - because of the friction and frustration that invariably results from agents that know one genre or medium, and want to keep the work in that one box. "When I find an agent that is looking to help me find new and interesting ways to BREAK those boxes, then I may have found my partner! Until then, I'm open to possible new project-by-project assistants, but that's it."  
  He has directed much effort toward building and operating within creative collectives such as Mythos Media, Evolving Media, Station Hill, and many others over the past 15 years, all of which he was a founding partner of. These included developing 13,000 square foot facilities for A/V productions, the creation of an international network of artists that could work round the clock on multi-media productions, and networks of A/V studios that doubled as safe-houses for the regular traveling shenanigans of indie artists. The memoirs will certainly be juicy, but right now, he's too busy living life to worry about such things. (Aside from the tid-bits that make it into the books in the guise of fiction.)
His work as producer, studio and live musician for numerous acts over the past decade (highlights including opening for seminal Belgian industrial band Front242 with Elektrowerx & the 2 album industrial metal colossus of HoodooEngine), has added to the sense of being a difficult to pin down, fringe and cult artist in nearly every imaginable medium.
  As if this wasn't enough to confound anyone attempting to summarize his work or write a brief bio, this work has also included acting appearances in gonzo projects such as "Clark" (nominated at the LA WebFest festival), and numerous appearances at festivals across the US, sometimes on panels, sometimes just co-running the Mythos Media table and flitting around the convention.

Testimonials

Words of Traitors

"Beautiful!" David Mack, renowned sequential artist of Kabuki, Daredevil, Dexter, and much more. 

Fallen Nation

"A progressive fictional universe created by a wickedly talented scribe... Philip K Dick might have company someday..." Brooke Burgess, the Creator of award-winning flash animated graphic novel Broken Saints.
"Philadelphia-based writer James Curcio's novels resemble strange and intricate life stories, bubbles of fiction floating in the depths of the collective subconscious. Occasionally they rise to the surface and burst into the conscious mind, releasing dreamscapes where fantasy merges with the mundane. Demigods cavort with goth-punk teenagers. Ambivalent authority figures lord over underground networks. Pseudo-shamanic rituals and sex magick abound." Reality Sandwich.com interview.

subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation 

"...talk about sprawling into myriad realms and building three albums simultaneously!" Jared Louche, front-man and mastermind, Chemlab, Covergirl.
"...a stick of dynamite, strapped to reality!" Scenery magazine

Join My Cult! 

"A very thought provoking and unusual book, Join My Cult! twists emotions and provides an uncanny, yet quirky insight into cult sociology and cultural immersion, as well as a study in progressive insanity. 5 out of 5." Jewels Marcel, JIVE magazine.
"This is a book to be savored, to puzzle over, to re-read, and on which to meditate. This has the potential to expand current concepts of 'books' as individual art forms." Brian Shields, Broadcast Journalist (presently with Channel 4, KRON-TV in San Francisco).
"James Curcio has created a lunatic narrative that haunts and teases with the promise of revelations to come." Philip H. Farber, author of FutureRitual: Magick for the 21st Century.
"Tie yourself securely in the chair -- the power is about to be turned on." Dr. Christopher Hyatt, author of The Psychopath's Notebook, the Black Books, Undoing Yourself, and many more.
"Join My Cult! reads like a stroboscopic MTV docu-drama of Ulysses and Illuminatus!" Peter Carroll, author of PsyberMagick, Liber Null and Liber Kaos: The Psychonomicon.

Generation Hex

"This book kicks major ass!" Phil Hine, author Condensed Chaos.
"Generation Hex reasserts the essential place of magic in our interaction with the universe." Genesis P-Orridge, cultural engineer.
"Your invitation to the party that might just bring the house down." Grant Morrison, author The Invisibles and The Filth.

Fas Ferox

"The presentation is artistically exciting and deeply cool. I cannot wait to see how the world of Fas Ferox will feel when it arrives on our computer screens, for people to interact with, to explore, to inhabit." Neil Gaiman, New York Times Bestselling author of Sandman, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and many others.
"Anna Young and her team are pulling off a modern miracle: a 21st Century mythology worthy of the term." Warren Ellis, controversial cult favorite, politically charged author of Crooked Little Vein & Transmetropolitan.

Interviews

Written

Media

James Curcio Interview by Rev.R4D4 An interview on Stanford radio about myth, occupy wall street, politics, media, and hoodooengine. If you'd like to hear higher resolution versions of the tracks on here and more, go here and stream or pick up the mp3s! (See other Hoodoo releases on the sidebar.)




James talking about the Modern Mythology project.

James playing JC, the actor that plays JC, Clark's Manager (fiction):

  • Audio: Solipsistic NATION (2011) interview with James and Johan of Hoodoo Engine, also featuring interviews and new music with Ogre (Skinny Puppy, Ohgr), and Tim Skold (Manson, KMFDM).
  • Audio: Serious Wonder interview with Grey Scott about black holes, singularities, death, the shadow people, and a lot of other unexpected weirdness. 
  • Audio: Occult Sentinel 32 (2011) interviewed by Joseph Moore about the Immanence of Myth, Clark, HoodooEngine, and more.
  • Audio: Generation Hex Launch (2005) party at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. 72 minutes of the panel discussion about culture, magick, art, and the apocalypse, featuring background music from a variety of related independent acts, including Babalon and Elektroworx and audience interaction. (Post-production by James Curcio.)
  • Audio: CLARK (2010) interview with local Philly theatrical podcast with the "cast and crew" of the Gonzomentary "Clark".
  • Audio: Smallworld podcast (2007) Peter Emerson Williams (Choronzon, Veil of Thorns) and James Curcio talk about the production process behind subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation with bazooka Joe on the long-running podcast Smallworld.
  • Audio: G-pod (2004) James talked with Joseph Matheny (Galt's Ark, Ong's Hat) about Join My Cult!, and the binaural technology and hypnosis techniques embedded in its chaotic contents.
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