Monday, December 3, 2007

Sunday, November 25, 2007

NEWFORM + GENIE DE LA BASTILLE


THE 11TH PROJECT OF NEWFORM BUSAN-PARIS
"OPEN HOUSE" OPENING DECEMBER 1-9TH 2007
EXHIBITION SPACE: GALLERY FINE + THE DONGBAEK ART CENTER
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA

SCREENING:
EXTENDING TRAINER:PRESSURE SUITS & BROOM-CRAFTS
21:00-STEREO-VIDEO-2007 EDITION

Monday, November 5, 2007

D2 FESTIVAL LECTURE - SPECULATIVE FICTIONS:DESIGNING(POSTHUMAN) SPACE




2007 D2 FESTIVAL
KYUNGSUNG UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DIGITAL DESIGN
BUSAN,SOUTH KOREA

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Monday, October 1, 2007

THE 4TH BUSAN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL


THE 4TH BUSAN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL
CURATED BY "SPACE BANDEE"
OPENING SCREENING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH 2007
SCHEDULE & ARTISTS
http://www.spacebandee.com / http://busanvideo.com/bivf/

DARRIN MARTIN AND I WILL BE SCREENING
I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN-9:00-STEREO-2007 VARIATION
I am today’s lesson plan is a unique edit of Burn’s and Martin’s epic Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans, which utilizes video as a trans-disciplinary curriculum exploring diverse speculative fictions and reimagined educational practices. Psychic surgery meets physical therapy as matter and anti-matter merge under the choreographed supervision of other worldly beings. In the search for new mind/body experiences, Burns, Martin and other workshop participants enact paranormal interactions, intersexual dynamics, pseudo-testing methods, and staged quasi-therapy sessions.

Monday, September 24, 2007

HALFLIFERS GROUP SHOW


LOVE TERRORS
Curated by Jeremy Stern
An Exhibition Featuring Artists from
The Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, Nebraska
Claudia Alvarez, Mathieu Borysevicz, Terry Rosenberg, and
HALFLIFERS: Torsten Zenas Burns & Anthony Discenza
Eisentrager • Howard Gallery ,University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Oct. 8 - Nov. 20 2007 / Reception: October 8, 5-7pm

Omaha, NE - Using the multiple lenses of horror, humor, propaganda, formal abstraction and zombies, Love Terrors explores the various dynamics at play between communities and violence. On view October 8 - November 20 at Richards Hall, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Love Terrors features five artists working in a range of media, and the title refers to the term "night terrors," a sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. Sleepers experiencing night terrors tend to be unable to control their bodies, and they wake up gasping, moaning or screaming. Expanding upon this phenomenon to address the scope of a community, Love Terrors serves as both a metaphor and an entry point to explore violence. Through Claudia Alvarez's watercolors, videos created by Mathieu Borysevicz, Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza and Terry Rosenberg's digital prints, each work defines and communicates the terms community and violence differently. Through their collective representations, the artists also give us a broader understanding of everyday life and of the unusual forms of violence to which many communities have grown accustomed. Love Terrors is curated by Jeremy Stern, Assistant Director and Curator for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

WHAT-IF? CONNECTICUT RIVER DATE



WHAT-IF? IS A COLLABORATIVE TAPE WITH DARRIN MARTIN
SPECIAL THANKS TO: KARI GATZKE & DENISE IRIS

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

WHAT-IF? STELARC/STELARC



SCENECHUNK COLLABORATION WITH
DARRIN MARTIN & CHRISTIAN BURNS

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

THE FICTION / SCIENCE TRIANGLE


THE FICTION SCIENCE TRIANGLE
Work by Darrin Martin, Anthony Discenza,
Torsten Zenas Burns & Halflifers
A guest curated screening hosted by Studio 27
Presented by Darrin Martin & Anthony Discenza
Friday, June 29, 9:00 PM - Admission: Free
689 Bryant Street. Studio 27

Space station layovers, ghost acoustic residue and omnipotent
narrators are joined at the hip in this quintet of works by three
videomakers who work together and apart. Unfortunately,
the hip has fallen off because it belongs to a zombie...
but perhaps an inorganic psychic surgery exchange can replace it.
Come find out as this trio of artists chart a terrain of speculative
fictions and claim them as their science.

EXTENDING TRAINER: PRESSURE SUITS AND BROOM-CRAFTS
(Torsten Zenas Burns, 20 minutes, stereo, 2004/07).
A processed team-up between alternative space agencies,
cryptic training facilities, past-regressed family workshops,
feline androids, green helmets, beams of light, spectacular
strollers,organic projectiles, arcane crew choreography,
and video residency programs.

VIEWING #1 (Anthony Discenza, 9:30 minutes, stereo, 2006).
A meditation on the proliferation of images in the age
of information, and the limits of both textual and visual modes
of representation. Assembled from fragments of texts gathered
by a specific Google search, Viewing #1 describes a potential
image under continuously shifting terms in order to construct
a transient internal viewing experience.

MONOGRAPH IN STEREO (Darrin Martin, 17:20 minutes video, stereo,
2004/05). Documentary and experimental strategies are employed
to convey a struggle with congenital and operational hearing loss
and tinnitus, a continual ringing in the ear; a phantom auditory
perception. The work also stems from research upon the
interdependency of the senses with an emphasis on the balance
ascertained from binaural hearing and stereoscopic vision and the
imbalance caused by their uneven degradation. Images move between
poetic manipulations of landscapes, interiors and hearing tests.

I AM TODAY’S LESSON PLAN
(Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns,
10:30 minutes, stereo, 2004). Steve Seid of Pacific Film Archive calls
it, "An episodic adventure about extra-evolutionary transformation.
Organized as 'lesson plans', this unique work is an ambitious
tutorial for the neo-nauts of inner space."

AFTERLIFERS: WALKING AND TALKING:EXTENDED
(HalfLifers [Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza],
23 minutes, stereo, 2004). The HalfLifers exhume
cinema’s favorite incarnation of mindless, decaying mortality, the
Zombie, in the hopes of breathing new life into this misunderstood
figure. From a panel discussion in an old TV studio to a quarantined
helicopter high above California’s rolling hills, these life-challenged
entities walk, talk, and chew on some of the more difficult questions
concerning the whole linear birth-death system.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

(INSATIABLE STREAMS) MEDIA ART SHOW (BEIJING,CHINA)




INSATIABLE STREAMS
IEA ten years of the Institute for Electronic Arts

OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 23.saturday 3:00-8:00PM
Zero field art center,798 ART ZONE,Beijing
EXHIBITION DATE: June 23-July 8,2007
PERFORMANCE: Steina Vasulka,June 23 Saturday5:00-8:00PM
GALLERIES: BS1 Contemporary art center,Huan Tie Art Zone,BeiJing
ORGANIZER: Institute for Electronic Arts,School of Art and Design,
NYSCC at Alfred University,Alfred,NY
COORDINATOR: CAFA media lab at CHINA central academy of fine art
UNDERTAKER: BS1 contemporary art center,Huan Tie art zone,BeiJing
Zero field art center,798 art zone,BeiJing
Fun art space,798 art zone,BeiJing
Yen club art center,798 art zone,BeiJing
CURATOR: Boyi Feng
SPECIAL THANKS: The PAJWELL FOUNDATION,Huan Yan,
XianQun Li,ZhiJuan Weng,Bing Bing,Zi Xiao STDIO,
WeiDong Mao,TROJANS ART

The complete two-channel "Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans"
a collaboration between Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin
will be making its Asian premiere in this show.

Learning Stalls:Lesson Plans is both the name of an installation
and a 66-minute videotape that can be screened as a singular unit,
as a two-channel installation or in chapter clusters. Several edits of
Learning Stalls, Lesson Plans, the 66 minute tape, have screened
and exhibited at various venues. Steve Seid at Pacific Film Archives
describes Learning Stalls, Lesson Plans as “an episodic adventure
about extra-evolutionary transformation. Organized as ‘lesson plans,’
this unique work is an ambitious tutorial for the neo-nauts of inner space.”

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

VIDEO_DUMBO ARCHIVE (OPEN AIR SCREENINGS)




VIDEO_DUMBO ARCHIVE (OPEN AIR SCREENINGS)
ULSAN,SOUTH KOREA MAY-JUNE 2007
CURATED BY CASPAR STRACKE & GABRIELA MONROE
Lo-Fi Green Sigh | Kristin Lucas | 2004 | 2:20 min.
Black Pyramid | Bec Stupac | 2006 | 3:00 min.
Learning Stalls:Lesson Plans
Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin variable date/time
Science’s Ten Most Beautiful Experiments:
[#2) Galileo’s Experiment on Falling Objects
Jeanne Liotta | 2006 | 2:00 min.
Blew Line | Ken Solomon | 2006 | 5:00 min.
Temper Tantrum | John Richey | 2006 | 1:00 min.
Read My Lips | Stephanie Lempert | 2:00 min.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

"IMPRINT"

ODC Theater, Thurs-Sat, May 10-12 at 8pm.
THE FOUNDRY: Alex Ketley + Christian Burns
"IMPRINT"
ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, SF 94110
The Foundry's "IMPRINT" – A new collaboration with award winning
video artists Anthony Discenza and Torsten Zenas Burns,
and acclaimed composer Les Stuck. Imprint is a new performance
installation taking its inspiration from the Foundry’s film archive.
For more information please go to ( FoundryProjects.org )
"The Foundry is at the vanguard of American dance."
San Francisco Chronicle, 2003

ODC Theater, Thurs-Sat, May 10-12 at 8pm.
$20 Advance Sales, $25 At the Door,
$18 Student/Senior. Buy Tickets!
Box Office: 415-863-9834 or online.




Thursday, March 22, 2007

TWO HALFLIFERS SCREENING: FUZZY LOGIC



FUZZY LOGIC
The Centre d’art et de diffusion Clark Montreal,Canada
Saturday April 14th, 2007 - 8 pm / Video

ANTITUBE/Quebec,Canada
Samedi le 5 mai 2007 à 20 h
Espace d'exposition de la Bande Vidéo

Phyllis Baldino, Messieurs Delmotte,
Eric Duyckaerts, Manuelle Gauthier,
Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Halflifers,
Buster Keaton, Karin Kihlberg &
Reuben Henry, Mrzyk et Moriceau,
Erik Olofsen, Alix Pearlstein,
David Yonge.

A video program by Patrice Duhamel
Comprised of two axes, one investigating science, and the
other fiction, the program Fuzzy Logic is steeped in idiocy.
What “idiot” is, in its fundamental sense, is untranslatable,
irreducible. As Jean-Yves Jouannais suggests in his book
L’idiotie (“Idiocy”), it will be a question here, of observing
how these video practices articulate
themselves as forms of life, art, politics and resistance.

These “deviant” practices exhaust us. They present
themselves as disqualified and limping, but nothing is
able to strip their passionate determination from them.
We like these practices because they reproduce not only
the sacrificial figure of the artist that society requires
to validate its laws of behavior, but also because
they depict the artist who, literally, blows it. We hate
these practices, or love to hate them, because they make
us laugh at what we do not ourselves do, while
making us forget that it is only art.

Friday, March 16, 2007

(INTAINMENT)PRACTICE FOR LOSTANGELES







THANKS TO ANTHONY DISCENZA FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES