Last Update: October 8th, 2008
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Production stills from What If?, a new video
by Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin

News:

Manipulated stills from The Abominable Freedom, a video collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns, will be include in "_____ in a Box" at the Canco Building in Jersey City on September 20th - October 18th. Open Saturdays only, for more information contact 551-697-0342. Curated by Billy Miller.

Apportmanteau, a co-curation with Torsten Zenas Burns will be making its US premiere at Parsons Hall Project Space, Event One 2008, in Holyoke, MA on October 11 & 12th. See link for more details.

Various collaborative video works will be screened as part of Torsten Zenas Burns' Collabotronica at the Mass Art Film Society in Boston, MA on October 29th.

Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone will be included in this year's 15th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival from October 29th-November 2nd. Details TBA shortly.

The videotapes Monograph in Stereo and Currents, a collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns, has recently been included in the long awaited compilation DVD of videos made at the Experimental Television Center. It will be part of ETC Works: 1970-2007 to be coming later this year.

still from video Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie)
on my cell phone


Free To Be You and Me from
The Free To Be You and Me Invitational curated by Ocularis

Video curations:
Flesh Capades
Apportmanteau
The Spectacular Semester
Residency Program

Video Distribution:
Vtape
Electronic Arts Intermix
Video Data Bank
The Kitchen

Other links:
My Live Journal Blog
Torsten Zenas Burns
Experimental Television Center
Eyebeam


still from video Other Turbans

see Other Turbans here

Net art:

Lesson Plans: Learning Net, 2003, a collaborative high bandwidth net art piece commissioned by Electronic Arts Intermix and done with Torsten Zenas Burns.

The Aviation Projects, 1997/8, a much older net art endeavor that found a home in a couple of installations.


past events 2008:

What If? the screening trailer to the multi-channel video collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns made its world premiere in the program Bubble Theory at Video Dumbo at Galapagos Art Space, in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, September 28th. 

Flesh Capades a curation of four short films premiered on Sunday, September 7th, 8pm at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Works included The Fine Arts by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Forbidden Acts by Todd Herman, Buoyant by Julie Wyman, and The Abominable Freedom by Torsten Zenas Burns and myself. Click here for an excerpt of The Abominable Freedom and/or go to The Abominable Freedom's MySpace.

Strange Fruit Sound, a video sculpture was part of Home and Away: Contemporary Video Art at JayJay Gallery, 5520 Elvas Ave., Sacramento CA. Curated by Rachel Clarke. The exhibition ran from July 9th to August 2nd.

The Austin Film Society screened Martin and Burns' Recall as part of Ghosts of the Past, Spectres of the Future, a video program curated and including works by Ivan Lozano at Austin Studios Screening Room on July 23.

Other Turbans was included in Cinematexas Eulogy: Ragnarok and Ragnarol in Houston, TX on June 13th.

"CELLuloid: Cell-Phone Made Documentaries" curated by Sally Berger and Sara Rashkin which includes Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone was a part of The Pockets Film Festival as the program "Carte blanche au MoMA" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris on June 14th.

Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone was included in this year's Impakt Festival, May 7-11, Utrecht, Netherlands as part of YourSpace; Social Structures, Subcultures and Identities in Society 2.0, curated by Nellie Killian and Kevin McGarry.

Every... screened as part of the program Where's the Love? in The 15th and Final New York Underground Film Festival at Anthology Film Archive in New York City, Thursday, April 3 and Sunday, April 5th.

Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone made its west coast premiere screening as part of The 2008 Davis Feminist Film Festival at Veteran’s Memorial Theatre in Davis on Friday, February 29th.

Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone made its world premiere screening as part of "CELLuloid: Cell-Phone Made Documentaries" curated by Sally Berger and Sara Rashkin at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC on February 20th. See Documentary Fortnight schedule for more details.

Other Turbans made its European premiere as part of Apportmanteau, a program of experimental short videos co-curated and presented by Torsten Zenas Burns and myself, at Stuttgart's Filmwinter Festival in Germany, January 17-20, 2008.