WHAT-IF? (O.R.L.A.N.) SURGICA CHOREOGRAPHICA WORKSHOP & COURTYARD MOUNDS

WHAT-IF? IS A COLLABORATION WITH DARRIN MARTIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO ULSAN UNIVERSITY, GEOFFERY BELL, CASPAR STRACKE & GABRIELLA MONROE

FRENDSHIPPING

A DIGISTILL FROM "CARTOON" A COLLABORATION WITH MIKE HEIKO

AND WHO SHALL RESCUE THE RESCUERS?

MEDLIFERS / AMBULATORS / PODLIFERS SEQUENCES
HALFLIFERS COLLABORATION WITH ANTHONY DISCENZA
(FORTHCOMING COLLECTED DVD RELEASE 2007)

WHAT-IF? (STELARC) CHOREOGRAPHIC STUDY

WHAT-IF? IS A VIDEO COLLABORATION WITH DARRIN MARTIN
STELARC CHARACTER CONSTRUCTION & CHOREOGRAPHY:
CHRISTIAN K. BURNS

SELECTED AFTERLIFE CHARACTER

(SUPER) SELECTED AFTERTOMB PERSONALITY SEQUENCE
COLLABORATION WITH CHRISTIAN ALEXANDER
EMBEDDED WITHIN "SELECTED AFTERLIFE CHARACTERS"
VARIABLE DATE & TIME - VIDEO/PHOTO SERIES

WHAT-IF? (GEONGJU MEMBERSHIP TRAINING)

COLLABORATIVE ENGINE FIRING WITH DARRIN MARTIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO CASPAR STRACKE & GABRIELA MONROE

A SLIMECODE

COLLABORATIVE GESTURAL SLIMECODING WITH
(THE FOUNDRY):(CHRISTIAN K. BURNS & ALEX KETLEY)

KOREAN-PUTERGRAFT

THE ABOMINABLE FREEDOM (BROOKLYN ACTIVATION)

FREEDOM FIELDS VIDEO PROGRAM
http://www.m-o-s-t-r-a.com/video_dumbo/06-freedom-fields.html

Black Pyramid | Bec Stupac | 2006 | 3:00 min.
"I often think of this piece as being like a New Orleans whore
house on opium...a major theme is something like energy
essence seeping out of languid bodies..."

Bec Stupak is an artist living and working in New York City,
and is also the founding member of Honeygun Labs, an
experimental video project that after a few years blossomed
into a collaborative effort that at any given time had several people
creating and experimenting with different styles and techniques.

In 2004, HGL collaborated again with AVAF to create a piece
for the Whitney Biennial (Garden 8) which featured the band
Los Super Elegantes and an LED lighting component to make
the walls breathe and a site-specific video piece that was created
using live mixing techniques. As an offshoot to the Whitney project,
Bec started a DVD zine called Scissorfriends, which was
developed in the Eyebeam artist-in-residence program and features
everything from little dogs dancing to cough-syrup induced music
to a deranged lady exhibiting her queefing skills.

The Abominable Freedom
Torsten Zenas Burns / Darrin Martin | 2006 | 41:00:00

Originally shot video and appropriated film weaves together a
musical celebration of the flesh. An egg from the missing link
holds a skeleton key to our educational future. On a parallel
world, life coaches made of bone & fur activate televisual
coursework including circular zooming studies,
spectral-mating, and etheric birthing techniques. Manifest
Destiny eludes its colonial past and takes refuge deep in
our pagan libidinal nature.

Burns and Martin have based their videotapes and installation
collaborations on their research into diverse speculative fictions
,and reimagined educational practices. Their videotapes are
distributed by Vtape,Canada,and Video Data Bank
in Chicago.They have jointly participated in residency programs
at Eyebeam(NY)and Experimental Television Center(NY).Video
projects have shown at venues including SCANNERS:The New
York Video Festival, Pacific Film Archive,Aurora picture show,
Oberhausen short film & video festival,and most recently
screened at Cinematexas 11.

Histoire | Hans Kuzmich | 2006 | 5:00 min.

Taking Histoire de l'oeil as a narrative point of departure,
the film stages youthful sexuality within an echoey metonymic
web of ocular associations.

Hans Kuzmich (born 1983, Russia) is a New York based
interdisciplinary artist whose recent work investigates
genealogy and self-narrative in relation to gender.

Man and Woman | Natalie Frigo | 2006 | 3:00 min.

Men and Women is composed of movie footage of ‚
perception‚ and ‚perceiver‚ clips.¬†The right side of the
screen shows the point-of-view of the lead male character,
which determines the audience's gaze on the subject
(the woman). On the left side of the screen the man is revealed
while gazing. Men and Women establishes the camera‚viewpoint
as male and reveals how we learn to look at women as audience
and out in the world.

Natalie Frigo, a video artist residing in Brooklyn, New York,
received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Since graduating, her work has appeared internationally in over
twenty festivals, galleries and conferences.

The Spirits of Authority | Carey Burtt | 2006 | 4:00 min.

The punishing inner authority of the alcoholic, religious
fanatic and serial criminal are served up. They all struggle with
feelings of worthlessness, self hatred and express themselves
in different ways. All are juxtaposed in this film to raise
questions and suggest that any relief is only yet another trap.

Carey Burtt has been making short films since High School in
Maine where he won numerous student awards. His 1998 films,
The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase and The Death of Sex have
been featured in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping and Psychotic
Odyssey is also being distributed by Troma. Mind Control Made Easy
or How to Become a Cult Leader (2000) won the audience
award from Supersphere.com. His 2005 feature A Forked
World, won ‚Most Effectively Offensive‚at the Boston
Underground Film Festival where he acted as a judge the following
year. He was the leader/songwriter and guitarist for his bands
Carey‚Problem and Gigi Disco Rock.
He wrote songs with Julian Schnabel for his cd Every
Silver Lining Has A Cloud. He holds a B.F.A. in Film and Television
Production from NYU.

Elysian Fields | Rashaad Newsome | 2005 | 2:23 min.

Elysian Fields,” is a study of the moment of spiritual euphoria,
or "Holy Ghost," as it is expressed in the Southern Baptist faith.
The gestural archive of these instances in which worshipers are
literally possessed by the spirit suggests that religion can create
a means of escapism. The protagonists experience a moment
of intensity when they are both inside and outside their body.
This estrangement is further emphasizedby the accompanying
gospel sung by the Barrett Sisters. Played backwards, it adds
another layer of detachment to the already isolated motions of
the worshipper and the separation from any kind of knowable
context. This defamiliarization offers a way to reflect on the
physical language that constitutes ritual in traditional models of
organized religion.

Rashaad Newsome. Born in New Orleans, LA, lives and works
in NYC. His work has been exhibited at K.U.E.L., Berlin, Germany;
Glassbox Gallery, Paris, France; Rush Arts Gallery, NYC; Zero Station,
Portland, Maine; Veletrzni Palace, Prague, Czech Republic; Fondation
Cartier, Paris, France; Fiac, Paris, France; The Film Gallery,
Paris, France;The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
He also has been the recipient of several awards including the
Franklin Furnace Grant, l'Entreprise Culturelle AIR and Harvestworks.

PULSAR 2006 MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL

PULSAR 2006 MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL
Caracas,Venezuela

Voyage en Absurdie (Viaje a lo absurdo)
Curaduría : Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin

Cine en la Calle
Plaza El Cristo / Baruta
Miércoles 04 de octubre. 7:00 pm
Tolón Fashion Mall / Las Mercedes
Sábado 07 octubre. 7:00 pm
Centro de Arte de El Hatillo/ El Hatillo
Martes 10 de octubre. 7:00 pm

Obras que trabajan el absurdo y el desface de las realidades
que revelan su mirada crítica frente a nuestros estereotipos.
Alexander Heim toma una maza y explota un organo mecánico.
Bernard Debaillie domestica un perro artificial. Rolf Schuurmans
toca la música golpeando los dedos del pie. Julien Collieux
reinterpreta el « Himno a la Alegría » de Beethoven con sillas
transformadas en instrumentos. Jennet Thomas recrea un
mundo simétrico, inquietante y chiflado. Darrin Martin et
Torsten Zenas Burns continuan sus experimentos extravagantes
desplegando un universo visual delirante e intentan una
hibridación humano-digital. Edgar Pera filma un fresco
experimental futbolístico donde el rojo esta contra el verde,
los fanáticos están de fiesta, el fuerte contra el débil en una
derrota igualitaria.

Alexander HEIM : Heimorgeln
Alemania, 2002
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:02:47

Edward YOUNG : Killing Teddy
África del Sur, 2001
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:00:53

Bernard DEBAILLIE : Jumping Hurdles
Bélgica/Reino Unido, 2003
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:01:59

Tomas LAGERMAND LUNDME :Princess Die
Dinamarca, 2001
Ficción experimental. DV. Color. 0:02:00

Paul HORN, Harald HUND : Tomatenköpfe
Austria, 2001
Ficción experimental. DV. Color. 0:06:00

Rolf SCHUURMANS : Tuning
Países Bajos/Bélgica, 2005
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:02:17

Rabea EIPPERLE : Peute
Alemania, 2001
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:02:55

Thomas BERNARDET : Haut parleur
Francia , 2001
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:03:23

Julien COLLIEUX : Concert pour 7 chaises
Francia/Alemania, 2000
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:06:00

Jennet THOMAS : Double Dummy
Reino Unido, 2004
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:06:40

Darrin MARTIN, Torsten Zenas BURNS :
I am Today's Lesson Plan
Estados Unidos, 2003
Video experimental. DV. Color. 0:10:20

Edgar PERA : Es a nossa fé
Portugal, 2004
Documental experimental. DV. Color. 0:42:00

Tiempo total de proyección : 1:27:14
Programa en versión original, sin subtítulos en español

UNDERNEATH THE WORKSHOPWAYS

Lifecoach Degree Program:
Renewable energy coupling / Friendly fluids / Gestation camping / Medical delivery projectiles...
Variation#1 10:00 2005 Special thanks to Peter Baldes

BIRTHDAY COLLABORATION (38)

THE LAUGHING DEATH

THE LAUGHING DEATH
VIDEO:
(Variable date & time)
PHOTO:
(Image chunks are being activated for diverse delivery dispersal)
The work being proposed is a mythic fable of political contamination
told in a digital context. The narrative proceeds through a linked
series of stories with social overtones. The intent here is to be
allegorical not didactic, and to render important national issues in
the format of entertaining tales. The narratives endeavor to present
transparent events of duplicitous meaning.Inexorable forces have
been set in motion in the world today, forces typified by cycles
of violence and misunderstanding. The audio and video structures
of this tape reflect the recurring nature of this circumstance. A type
of life-cycle embodied in these evolving narratives supports the
precept that these historical issues may be pared down to the
tangible form of individual lives: ominous perhaps, though not
defeatist; terminal no doubt, but laughing.
(Androidal concerns to be sprayed on fiction template)
COLLABORATION WITH VIROCODE

WHAT-IF?

IMAGES(HOLYOKE,MASS/BUSAN/PUSAN,SOUTH KOREA)
COLLABORATION WITH DARRIN MARTIN

THE GERMAN/MEXICAN/KOREA CONNECTION

KOREANAUTICA (SPRING CLASS) 2006 DVD

HALF(EXAMINING LIVING FICTION FUEL)LIFERS

3(BLUE-PLATFORMS)+YELLOW MOBILERS

LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY SPACEARTS

AWAY WE GO! K/O/R/E/A/N AIRLINES

THE ABOMINABLE FREEDOM (TEXAS ACTIVATION)

CINEMATEXAS 11
SEPTEMBER 20-24TH 2006
http://www.cinematexas.org/
SEPTEMBER 22ND 9PM KEALING MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEPTEMBER 23RD 2:30PM KEALING MIDDLE SCHOOL

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION #06 "MONSTERMASH"
I AM NATIA (2006) 1:00 video by Jill Pangallo
THE ABOMINABLE FREEDOM (2006) 41:00 by Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
Excluded from the liberated sexual environment of
a witchcraft education,the lonely yeti mourn their
abominable freedom. In their absence,an even
more abominable and sinister rococco period threatens
the very foundation of the pagan system.Will this glib
lib destroy the beauty and opportunities for personal
spiritual growth of the flesh celebration? Or will an egg
from the missing link usher in a new age of trans-species
cooperation? -Ivan Lazano
RABBIT (2005) 5:00 video animation by Run Wrake
THE MAMTSOTSI BIRD (2006) video by Jo Horn
PSYCHOS(S) (2006)12:00 by Ip Yuk-Yiu & ST