past events 2009:

What If? Beyond a CarnaLove premiered at The Lab in San Francisco as part of PastForward, their 25th Anniversary Exhibition, July 31st - August 29th.

Learning Stalls: Modular Syllabi and Organic Exchange screened as part of White Heat curated by Katrin Mundt at Self Service, Open Art Space in Stuttgart, Germany on July 30th.

I Am Today's Lesson Plan screened as part of curation by artist Shana Moulton at Côté Court in France from June 10th through 20th.

Inside Out, a screening tour of solo and collaborative works has ended. March 23 - CIDAT, Salt Lake City, UT March 27 - The Nightingale, Chicago, IL March 30* - Alfred University, Alfred, NY March 31* - The Colloquium, Syracuse U, Syracuse, NY April 1 - Mass Art Film Society, Boston, MA April 9 - Time Space Ltd., Hudson, NY April 21 - The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA April 23 - Watkins College Theater, Nashville, TN April 25 - Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA April 29 - Zeitgeist, New Orleans, LA May 1 - Minicine?, Shreveport, LA May 6 - Avant Cinema Series, Austin, TX May 8 - Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM May 10 - Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA June 12 - Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

*presented with Torsten Z. Burns and focused on our collaborations. April review of Mass Art Film Society screening in Artforum.

The extended version of What If? made its world premiere at the Migrating Forms in New York City on April 18th as part of the program Conjurer Visit at Anthology Film Archive.

What If? made its European premiere at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrueck, Germany, April 22 - 26!

Artworks included in The Consilience of Art & Science exhibition March 10th - April 12th at the Pence Gallery, Davis, CA.

A print from my recent collaboration, Subjects Unknown, with Jamil Hellu was exhibited at PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco from February 9th - March 5th in the exhibition Sweet and Matchless curated by Elisheva Biernoff and Adrienne Skye Roberts.

past events 2008:

Artist and film critic David Finkelstien published reviews of five of my short films on Film Threat. See links for Other Turbans, 1/2 right, Monograph in Stereo, The Knocking, and Aviator under Shorts section.

Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone was included in "Short Social Sing-alongs" as part of this year's 15th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival on November 2nd.

I am Today's Lesson Plan was screened as part of Torsten Zenas Burns' Collabotronica at the Mass Art Film Society in Boston, MA on October 29th.

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. Curated by Billy Miller.

Apportmanteau, a co-curation with Torsten Zenas Burns made its US premiere at Parsons Hall Project Space, Event One 2008, in Holyoke, MA on October 11 & 12th.

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.