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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.”

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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.

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"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.

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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.

(INTAINMENT)PRACTICE FOR LOSTANGELES

THANKS TO ANTHONY DISCENZA FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES

SINGULARITY(YELLOW VARIETIES)

TRANSFORMATIONS 3:FICTION/SCIENCE

http://iml.usc.edu/transformations3/

We live in a science fictional world. Every day another futuristic projection made in the past turns into the reality of the present. Science fiction and science fact have become all but indistinguishable. "Special effects" are no longer particularly special, and fictional worlds, hoaxes and alternate histories are sometimes more real than reality itself. Science fiction turns its readers into early adopters; it helps prepare us for the future however it unfolds. Science uses this imaginative resource to think beyond its paradigm boundaries.

TransFormations 3: Fiction Science examines how science and science fiction mutually inform one another and shape not only our sense of the future but also our understanding of the present.

Organized by Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Anne Friedberg, Alice Gambrell, Perry Hoberman, Michael Naimark, Veronica Paredes, Douglas Thomas, Richard Weinberg and Holly Willis.

Saturday, March 3, 2007: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT), USC

11am-1pm Panel I: Science Fiction, Fiction Science
LARRY NIVEN, science fiction author (Ringworld)
TIM PRATT, fantasy and science fiction author (Little Gods)
NATHAN SCHURR, USC

1:30pm-2:00pm Live Video Chat with science fiction author RUDY RUCKER (Software, Wetware)

2:00pm-4:00pm Panel II: Hollywood Science, Special FX
SCOTT BUKATMAN, Stanford University (Terminal Identity, Matters of Gravity)
KEVIN MACK, visual effects supervisor (Fight Club, Ghost Rider)
ELIZABETH KESSLER, Stanford University

4:30pm-7pm Screening
ARTHUR ELSENAAR & REMKO SCHA Morphology/FaceShift
and works by video artists TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS, ANTHONY DISCENZA, DARRIN MARTIN and HALFLIFERS

Sunday, March 4, 2007: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ground Zero Coffeehouse, USC, 615 Childs Way

Readings & Performance
1pm fantasy & science fiction author TIM PRATT
2pm science fiction author LARRY NIVEN
3pm TOWARDS A DIGITAL COMPUTER WITH A HUMAN FACE: a lecture by speech synthesis machine HUGE HARRY, with live demonstration of computer-controlled human facial expressions.

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