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WHAT-IF? THE VISIONS & STELARCS (MASSACHUSETTS VARIATIONS)

THE LAUGHING DEATH:FEMBAUTICA RESEARCHING ROLES

SPECIAL THANKS TO ANNE MCGUIRE

WHAT-IF? (FEMALE STELARC COSTUME ONE)

COLLABOTRONICA

SUNY PURCHASE - NEW MEDIA LECTURE @ THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM
Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 6:30pm

“TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS: COLLABOTRONICA”

Reimagined space station training, etheric residue, reducational workshops, obsessive compulsive androids, gestural researchers,and semi-dead hosts are entwined at the spirited spine in this selection of works by videomakers who work together and apart. These Collaborative works between Torsten Zenas Burns, the Halflifers, Darrin Martin, the Foundry, Virocode and Michael O’Malley chart a processed terrain of variable speculative fictions.

THE LIVING ARTIFACTS GROUP SHOW

VIDEO CURATION: APPORTMANTEAU

APPORTMANTEAU
CURATED BY DARRIN MARTIN & TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS

ARTISTS:

GEOFF BELL
DARRIN MARTIN
SHANA MOULTON
ARGENTINE LEE
SUZIE SILVER & HILARY HARP
MICHELLE HANDELMAN
KARINA AGUILERA SKVIRSKY
DUKE & BATTERSBY

21 STUTTGARTER
FILMWINTER
FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA
(STUTTGART,GERMANY)

SATURDAY 8PM / JANUARY 19TH 2008
http://www.wand5.de/wand5cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=87

VIDEO CURATION: HHORRRAUTICA 3

HHORRRAUTICA 3
A RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUSING REIMAGINED
HORROR,MEDICAL AND COMMUNICATION HYBRIDS

CURATED BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS

ARTISTS:

ANDREW K. ERDOS
CHRISTIAN K. BURNS
ANTHONY DISCENZA
LEE,WOO-SOO
BARBARA LATTANZI
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS
FEMBOTICA & MASKATRONICA
LEE,HWA-KYOUNG
VIROCODE
CASPAR STRACKE
JORDAN BIREN

21 STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER"
FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA
(STUTTGART,GERMANY)
FRIDAY 6PM - JANUARY 18TH,2008
http://www.wand5.de/wand5cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=87

KOREANAUTICA (PHOENIX) 2006-2007

SQUIDNAUTICA PRESSURE SUIT (FACIAL ELEMENTS)tether(LG-SLABS)

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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

HANNEXCHANGE PROGRAM 2007

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

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

HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEN!

I AM RETURN

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.

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.

WHAT-IF? CONNECTICUT RIVER DATE

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

WHAT-IF? STELARC/STELARC

SCENECHUNK COLLABORATION WITH
DARRIN MARTIN & CHRISTIAN BURNS

THE LAUGHING DEATH:FEMBAUTICA STAGING PROGRAM

SPECIAL THANKS TO : ANNE MCGUIRE

Y-(CONSTRUCTION)-SPREAD

THE LAUGHING DEATH:FEMBOTICA EXCHANGE PROGRAM

CREW MANIFEST (JULY 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.

(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.”

(HR)SUMMER SCHOOL: IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED...AND WHAT-IF?

IMPLOSION SUIT (OMAHA,NEBRASKA VARIETY)