COLLABORATIVE VIDEO SHOW (JANUARY 2011)

THE NICHE IN THE FINE ARTS LIBRARY
A NEW MEDIA PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

LOOPED SCREENING: JANUARY 2011 - Curated by Lydia Moyer

ANIMATRONLOVE 3:30 / 2010 / HDV  

TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS AND DARRIN MARTIN
AnimatronLove revisits variations on the choreography performed by 
WHAT-IF? characters’ virtual avatars contextualized into a series of 
alternate worlds.

The Niche is a new media project of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia. It consists of a Mac Pro and a sixty-inch HD capable flat screen monitor mounted on a wall in a highly trafficked area of the library. There are a couple comfortable chairs to encourage viewers to sit and take their time as well as several pairs of wireless headphones.

GROUP VIDEO SHOW @ ATA / SAN FRANCISCO,CA

“ALTERED STATEHOOD”
   Sunday, December 19, 2010, 8:00 pm, $6
Programmed by NYC curator/publisher Billy Miller

CYBERNETIC INDIANS • X-RATED CLOWNS • JUSTIN BIEBER • ERUPTING VESSELS •PLUSHIES •JENNA JAMESON • DEATH-DEFYING FEATS • PRISON TRADE • SUPERHEROES • ESTATIC STATES • UNDERWATER DRUMMING • REVENGE THERAPY • PENTECOSTAL SNAKE HANDLERS               

Colby Bird’s - “Books” (2009)

Darrin Martin & Torsten Zenas Burns - “Wundergore Spa” (2010)

Wayne Coe’s - “Manhattan Sand Project” (2010)

Michael Economy’s - “You Are My Sunshine” (2004)

Peter Eide’s - “Broken Can” (2003)

Tony Feyer’s - “Homecoming” (1992)

Michael Greenblatt’s - “You’re the Top” (2007)

Rose Kallal’s - “History of Magic” (2004)

Lewis Klahr’s - “Pony Glass” (1998)

Kristian Kozul’s - “Benediction of Desire” (2008)

Steve LaFreniere’s - “LOVE” (1994)

Rachel Mason’s - “Wall” (2007)

Ashleigh Nankivell’s - “Justin Bieber Home Invasion” (2010)

Peter Rand’s - “Untitled  (Double Rainbow/Judd)” (2010)

SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny)’s - “Plushie” (2006)

ALTERNATIVE FUN FOR THE HOLE FAMILY!

http://www.atasite.org/2010/11/s-o-l-u-t-i-o-n/

http://a-poor-wayfaring-stranger.blogspot.com/

Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA

THE JELLIFICATION

Parsons Hall Project Space 
LAST VIEWING OF THE GROUP SHOW WILL 
BE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND 6-8PM 
(THE JELLIFICATION CLOSING RECEPTION) 
GYNOIDS, JELLIFICATION CAKE, DOPPELGANGERS, WINE, 
CHIMERAS, BUTTER COOKIES AND SIMULATIONS. (FREE)

THE JELLIFICATION (VIDEO SCREENING EVENT#1)

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE 
PRESENTS: (THE JELLIFICATION SCREENING EVENT#1) 
DONUTS, ANDROIDS, COFFEE, PRIMATES, PASTRY, DOUBLES 
TEA, AND EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 
SATURDAY MORNING - NOVEMBER 6TH - 10-11:30AM - FREE
(Morning screening projection)

THE UNCANNY MEADOW CELL
DDUPLICATIONN & YOU / 20:00 / VIDEO / 2010
BJORN MELHUS / AUTO CENTER DRIVE / 28:00 / 16MM / 2003
DESIREE HOLMAN / TROGLODYTE / 7:00 / VIDEO / 2005

VIDEO SCREENING ((((ANIMATRONLOVE))))

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL BUSAN VIDEO FESTIVAL 
ART SPACE BANDEE
Date : Oct.24 - Nov.5 
Time : am.11:00 - pm.6:00 
Work : Competition(Korean Artists) 
           Selection(International Artists)  
           Speciality(Taiwan Video Artists) 
Opening Projection 
Venue : Community Media Center, in Busan 
             Subway No.2 line, Centum City Station Exit 4 
Date : Oct. 23(sat) pm 4:00-6:00 
Work : Competition (Korean Artists)  / Selection(International Artists)   

국내경쟁작 / Competition-Korean Artists

강혁 Kang, Hyuk / 자화상 Self Portrait / 9min. 59sec. / 2010 

변재규 Byun, Jae-kyu / Symmetrial Train / 5min. 3sec. / 2010 

서평주 Seo, Pyoung-joo / 최후의 만찬 Last Supper / 3min. 30sec. / 2010

임철민 Lim, Chul-min / 시크릿 가든 Secret Garden / 6min. 22sec. / 2010

정혜정 Jung, Hae-jung / 섬 Island / 4min. 12sec. / 2009 

피어스 미경 Mikyoung Jun Pearce / 깃발 Flags / 9min. 21sec. / 2010 

하원식 Ha, Won-sik / 음모 Intrigue / 2min. 29sec. / 2009 

허희규 Heo, Hee-gyu / 식물 A=A≠A : Pflanze / 2min. 49sec. / 2010 

박상은 Park, Sang-eun / Dermatographism / 5min. 34sec. / 2010  (우수상 수상작) 

손여울 Son, Yeo-ul / 기계의 해탈 Nirvana of machine / 2010  (우수상 수상작) 

해외추천, 선정작
Recommendation, Selection-International Artists

Axel Roessler 

악셀 로슬러 / It's a small world / 2min. 2sec. / 2009 / U.S.A
Ben Russell
벤 러셀 / TRYPPS#6 / 11min. 30sec. / 2009 / U.S.A
Boonchai Apintanaphong [Giam eee]
분차이 아핀타나퐁 / WAY / 4min. 49sec. / 2008 / Thailand
Doug Fishbone
더그 피쉬본 / Hypno Project / 2009 / U.S.A/UK 
Duke &Battersby
듀크배터스비 / Beauty plus pity / 14min. / 2009 / U.S.A 

Emanuele Kabu
엠마뉴엘 카부 / Zyrkus / 3min. 2sec. / 2007 / Italy

Gerhard Funk
게르하르트 펑크 / 2,5mgo / 4min. 18sec. / 2009 / Germany 

Hakima El Djoudi
하키마 엘 쥬디 / le sirop de la rue / 2min. / 2010 / France 

Jennifer Locke
제니퍼 로크 / Black White (Glue) / 5min. 45sec. / 2009 / U.S.A

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
주디 린-키-츄 / First Strike, Last Dance / 6min. 57sec. / 2009 / U.S.A 

Max hattler
맥스 하틀러 / 1925 aka Hell / 2min. / 2010 / Germany 

Michel Mazzoni
미쉘 마쪼니 / Le jour, la nuit(Day and night…) / 2min. 59sec. /  2008 / France

Monica Panzarino & Nadine Sobel
모니카 판자리노 & 나딘 소벨  / Loose Control / 5min. / 2008 / U.S.A 

Michael Marczewski
마이클 마크제스키 / 14.7Metre Psycho / 4min. 45sec. / 2009 

Noah Stout
노아 스토우 / Mantis & Auto / 5min. / 2008 / U.S.A 

Pathompon Tesprateep
파솜폰 테스프라팀 / 4 Fed. 2006 Live at BangKok Code / 8min. / 2007 / Thailand 

ritesh ajmeri
리테쉬 아즈메리 / Changing skin / 19min.(both) / 2010 / India

Silvio Giordano
실비오 지오다노 / Packaging's Life / 2min. 10sec. / 2009 / Italy 

Simon Mullan
시몬 뮬란 / Teaser02# / 1min. / 2009 / Germany 

Surabhi Saraf
수라비 사라프 / Fold / 7min. 33sec. / 2010 / Indian 

Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
토스천 번즈 & 다린 마틴 / ANIMATRONLOVE / 3min. / 2010 / U.S.A 

GROUP SHOW IN ABU DHABI (UAE)

No Customs

November 4-27, 2010
opening reception: Thursday Nov 4, 7-9 pm
curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

http://www.mccoyspace.com/nocustoms

an exhibition of transmissible ideas with:

Vito Acconci
Jason Robert Bell / Marni Kotak
Torsten Zenas Burns
Jennifer Dalton / Susan Hamburger
Anthony Discenza
Melissa Dubbin / Aaron Davidson
Bill Durgin
Tara Fracalossi
David Grubbs
Sara Hubbs
Thomas Lail
Michael Mandiberg
MTAA
Marisa Olson
Jonathan Schipper
Mark Tribe
Karen Yasinsky

A common art-making strategy when one enters into new territory is to listen, to ask, and to wait. As newcomers to Abu Dhabi, we considered this strategy, but then rejected it. Instead of waiting to receive information, we begin our sojourn in the Emirates by making an offer. In curating this show, No Customs, held in our remarkably gallery like living space, we offer the work of artists connected to us from our home community of New York City. When they asked what life is like here, we answered we didn’t yet know. We told them to send what they could send via email, via instructions, via concept. We told them to send it fast. So then, what we have is a show called No Customs. This title is a double entendre. Practically, since no objects have been mailed, we were not slowed by the expense of shipping and the delays of customs. Metaphorically, the show is not about tradition or interpretation, but rather about mapping and transcription. How does form map onto landscape? How does it transform landscape? How do you demarcate space for contemplation, for understanding, for revolution? What happens to the body when its image occupies this demarcated space?

Landscape
First, the approach to a problem. This is what we hear when listening to Vito Acconci’s audio piece, Research Station, Antarctica, For Your Ears Only (2004-2010). How does an artist (here architect) turn a landscape into a series of constraints to be addressed, to create a form? In the photographs of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, the long time collaborators use smoke bombs to test the landscape. They create form with weather, wind, light, and clouds. In a site specific project by Thomas Lail, a series of Buckminister Fuller domes are superimposed over the city view of Abu Dhabi, creating another take on the domes of the city and adding to the enormous architectural speculation already here. In another project, a memory sequence of images by Tara Fracalossi offers a counterpoint to the desert with images of most verdant spring and bleakest winter. These images purport to be memory, but their repetition on the wall creates matrices of classifications that map new space. In the end they are more like letters in an alphabet than like stories of particular landscapes. 

Demarcated space
In answering a call to show work in Abu Dhabi, many artists considered the question of mapping, both graphically and metaphorically. In the work of Michael Mandiberg, the artist asked us to find an Arabic map of the USA in which we recreate the laser cuttings of print media that he is known for. In this work the message and the map collide. The artist duo MTAA and the sculptor Sara Hubbs sent ideas for works that, though they are generated very differently, come up with surprisingly congruent projects. MTAA asked us to find “the most colorful place” in Abu Dhabi. Then they provided software that translated this image into an abstract digital image (referred to as “the aesthetic object”). We could then display this any way we saw fit. In Sara Hubb’s project, an abstract form also results from a behind the scenes process. She photographed decaying areas of New York City and asked us to reproduce the patterns they create in plaster, building up a surface to form decoration from blight.
The projects of Jonathan Schipper and the collaborative team of Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger ask us the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork by zeroing in on our patterns of behavior.  In the ambitious project by Schipper, entitled A Million Dollar Walk, attendees of the opening reception will be given the opportunity to carry a briefcase full of money on a prescribed path through the building.  Dalton and Hamburger ask participants questions about their behavior in Abu Dhabi, creating a changing sculptural bar graph that measures their assumptions about life in the capitol against actual practice.
Four artists in the exhibition deal with space by creating voids some for the viewer to inhabit speculatively others by creating spaces for lost objects. In her video mixtape project, Marisa Olson casts herself as an outsourced worker and creates a mash-up of Arab covers of American karaoke classics. The singers of course, are us by implication. In The New Revolution (2010), Mark Tribe creates an installation that invites spectators to consider their own ideas about revolution. David Grubbs, a noted musician, sent us instructions to render a beautiful wall drawing whose omissions create open spaces for meaning to drift. In an animation by Karen Yasinsky, You’d Better Be Careful, omitted objects and spaces set interpretation even farther adrift.

Bodies
Several of the artists in the show responded with work implying performative space. In the video Double Face Fantasy by Jason Robert Bell and Marni Kotak this space is a virtual one in that a portrait transforms through a technical gesture. Anthony Discenza’s video, The Future has Already Been Written creates a tour de force collage of science fiction, and we follow the body of Charlton Heston through alternate visions of the future. In the work of Torsten Zenas Burns, Resurrectables (Yellow-Mobilers), the artist asked us to curate a selection of performance stills from a huge array of images of costumes, props, and locations. We selected images of vehicles, conveying transmission, speed, and the framing of the body as it moves through space. Finally, the work of photographer Bill Durgin presents work that brings it all together. The body becomes a landscape of skin, finally an abstracted “aesthetic object”.

No Customs is located at Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi. Sama Tower is at the corner of Airport Rd and Electra Rd., near the NMC (New Medical Center). The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 1-5 through Nov. 27 and by appointment. Please contact Jennifer or Kevin McCoy with questions and image requests: info@mccoyspace.com

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's multimedia artworks examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory and language. They are known for constructing subjective databases of existing material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events. They have relocated to Abu Dhabi in affiliation with New York University Abu Dhabi and are presently teaching and working on a commission for the downtown campus.

VIDEO SCREENING ((((RECALL))))

 Fast Times Cinema presents:

 Nightmare on Greene Ave

A pre-haloween screening of shorts investigating amputated limbs, plastic masquerade, psychedelic monsters, psychological shifting and gory pleasure. Including such hot topics as the Kennedy Assassination (Mike 

Easterbrook) horror and feminism (Aran Reo Mann, Jennifer Sullivan), the uncanny (Jessie Stead, Jennet Thomas), Alien Mustaches (William Skullmaster), Sleepwalking Beauties (Nada Gordon),Monster Monkeys (Erin Dunn) and gender transformation (Marianna Ellenberg, Jeanne Liotta, Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin). Beware of impotent aliens and little girls performing seances in the backyard!

( Darrin Martin and I will be screening “RECALL” )

Curated by Marianna Ellenberg and Jessie Stead

When: October 24, 7-9pm!

Where: Green Acres Community Garden (corner of Greene and Lafayette) in Bed-Stuy.(Brooklyn, NY)

TRAIN: G train to Classon ave, walk two blocks east to greene and one block north to franklin.

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (EXHIBITION)

THE JELLIFICATION

CURATED BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS
(SPECIAL THANKS TO KARI GATZKE)
OCTOBER 23RD - NOVEMBER 14TH 2010
OPENING: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 6-10PM
SATURDAY MORNING EVENT - NOVEMBER 6TH 10-11:30AM
(DONUTS AND EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO SCREENING SERIES #1)
THE UNCANNY MEADOW CELL
RKDB
TXUSPO POYO
ZACHARY BUEHNER
RACHEL MAYERI
JOHN CALHOUN
DESIREE HOLMAN
BILL DURGIN
GEORGE PFAU
MIRIAM DYM
JENNIFER & KEVIN MCCOY
BJORN MELHUS

BAM/PFA Gallery Exhibition / Book

Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000

(HALFLIFERS ARTIST PAGE)

Book Launch: October 15, 2010
BAM/PFA Film and Video Series: September 2010 through March 2011, co-sponsored by San Francisco Cinematheque
BAM/PFA Gallery Exhibition: October 6, 2010 through April 3, 2011
Film Series and Book Tour: January 2011 through December 2012

The San Francisco Bay Area has been home to a thriving and prominent film and videomaking community since at least the 1940s. Of this larger community, a substantial subset of artists, innovators, and experimentalists has pursued alternative forms of visual expression that have influenced other artists far beyond our foggy enclave. The rich history of this alternative practice is explored in the new book Radical Light, published jointly by UC Press and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Through our research efforts to synthesize the artistic output of this diverse group of film and video artists, BAM/PFA has amassed a collection of rare “ephemeral” materials that often represent the remaining traces of what were vital manifestations of the Bay Area media community, its artists, as well as its pedagogical institutions and exhibition venues. These overlooked, often visually striking, archival materials come in the form of posters for bygone cinema screenings, newsletters from extant and now-defunct media organizations, production stills from seminal films that capture the time of their making, historical correspondence by renowned artists, and many other artifacts that encapsulate a half-century’s media culture. Of additional interest, nearly a dozen artist-made collages and drawings commissioned for Radical Light will be displayed in their original form. A special sidebar focuses on the microcinema movement that emerged full-force in the early 1990s and which is attributed to the prophetic inspiration of several Bay Area curators who showed films in intimate settings beginning in the late 1970s. Organized as a loose timeline along the walls of the Theater Gallery, hundreds of discrete paper relics evoke the graphical playfulness and diverse means that sustained a still-flourishing community of alternative media artists.

Steve Seid and Kathy Geritz
Film and Video Curators

Radical Light is curated by Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid, and Steve Anker, Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts; the microcinema sidebar is curated by Steve Polta, Artistic Director, San Francisco Cinematheque.

ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009-DVD

The DVD set is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (NYC)

The Experimental Television Center is pleased to announce the upcoming release of ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009, a five DVD set presenting the electronic media work of over one hundred artists who have worked in the Center’s Residency Program during the last 40 years. The collection offers a look at the evolution of the unique artist-designed sound and image tools that are the hallmark of the Center’s studio and provides a view into the constantly changing artistic processes and practices that have shaped the work over the years. The set is being distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.

Video art began to develop in the US in the late 1960s, with the introduction of new portable video tools. While many artists used the technology to document and have voice in social and political issues, others collaborated with technologists to design unique instruments which allowed the creation of imagery never before seen. ETC remains dedicated to the development of video and digital instruments in the service of creative visual and sonic investigation by artists from around the world.

This set contains works by the first generation of video and film artists – including Barbara Hammer, Gary Hill, Jud Yalkut and Aldo Tambellini - as well as contemporary works by Marisa Olson, Kristin Lucas, Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. The complete list of artists is below. A 132 page catalog is also included. The works have been widely exhibited internationally and received awards from festivals around the world.

For about 40 years the Center has offered programs in support of the media arts, offering an international residency Program, grants to individuals and media organizations, and sponsorship assistance for independent media and film artists. The Video History Web is an online resource for scholars concerning the formative development of media art and community television.

An essential component of the project, the digitizing of early video works recorded on obsolete formats, was performed through the Standby Program by Bill Seery. We also wish to recognize Maria Venuto and Kelly Spivey for their contributions. The newly digitized ETC works are archived at Cornell University Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media, to be made available to the public for research purposes.

This project has received support from the Digitization Project Grants Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, mediaThe foundation, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology. The project manager was Aaron Miller. The art designer for the project was Diane Bertolo.

ETC: The Experimental Television Center 1969-2009 is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Please contact EAI for more information. [www.eai.org or 212.337.0680]

5 DVD set, with 132 page catalog. Total running time: 19 hours.

Mara Alper • Amoeba Technology • Kristen Anchor • Benton Bainbridge • Irit Batsry • Bebe Beard • Alan Berliner • Kjell Bjorgeengen • David Blair • Peer Bode • Philip R Bonner • Jean-Pierre Boyer • Lawrence Brose • Nancy Buchanan • Barbara Buckner • Torsten Zenas Burns • Michael L. V. Butler • Abigail Child • Laurie Beth Clark • Cohen Charles • Connie Coleman • Dearraindrop • Andrew Deutsch • Kenneth Dominick • Monica Duncan • Nicholas Economos • David Fodel • Joshua Fried • Larry Gartel • Raymond Ghirardo • Jonnathan Giles • Shalom Gorewitz • Carol Goss • Alexander Hahn • Barbara Hammer • Julie Harrison • Sachiko Hayashi • Janene Higgins • Gary Hill • Tali Hinkis • Sara Hornbacher • Takahiko Iimura • Kelly Jacobson • Deborah Johnson • Brian Kane • Peggy Kay • Zohar Kfir • John Knecht • Andrew Koontz • Richard Kostelanetz • Annie Langan • Kyle Lapidus • Paula Levine • Henry Linhart • Jeanne Liotta • Jason Livingston • LoVid • Kristin Lucas • Darrin Martin • Mimi Martin • Christina McPhee • Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe • Aaron Miller • Bianca Bob Miller • Terry Mohre • Brian Moran • Ikue Mori • NNeng • Marisa Olson • Carol Parkinson • John Phillips • Michael Phillips • Alan Powell • Nicholas Ray • Megan Roberts • Ron Rocco • Peter Rose • Eric Ross • Mary Ross • Dave Ryan • Lynne Sachs • Eric Schefter • Michael Schell • Matthew Schlanger • Jessie Shefrin • Alan Sondheim • Caspar Stracke • Mark Street • Chad Strohmayer • Aldo Tambellini • Carolyn Tennant • Matthew Underwood • Liselot van der Heijden • Siebren Versteeg • Ben Vida • Nancy Walker • Reynold Weidenaar • Ann-Sargent Wooster • Walter Wright • Jud Yalkut • Neil Zusman

VIDEO_DUMBO 2010

VIDEO_DUMBO FESTIVAL / BROOKLYN , NY

FAUNAUTICA 9/24 - 8PM

Beauty Plus Pity | Emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby | 2010|14:26

The Roar | Shaun Slifer | 2009 | 1:15

Koreanautica | Torsten Zenas Burns | 2010 | 17:00 Untitled - Hypno Project | Douglas Fishbone | 2009 | 12:55 How To Draw Sad Animals | Pere Ginard & Laura Gines | 2009 | 4:34 Versions | Oliver Laric | 2010 | 8:48 Real Snow White | Pilvi Takala | 2009 | 9:14