2/16/12

SOLO GALLERY SHOW / WHAT-IF? IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED


Holyoke Community College
TABER ART GALLERY
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA 01040
WHAT-IF?
IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED
photo & video installation by
Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
Feb. 28 - March 29, 2012
Evening opening: Tues. Feb. 28th - 5-7pm

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 3:30 PM

2/6/12

HOLYOKERESEARCH (FOOOD-ARTS)

HOLYOKE WINTER CARNIVAL:CAKE ((CONTEST))
LAKE HITCHCOCK ALL-WEATHER CENTIPEDE
(SPECIAL THANKS TO: KARI GATZKE)

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 10:28 AM

2/3/12

HALFLIFERS - GROUP SHOW IN BERLIN / GERMANY

Catastrophes & Incidences
February 5 - April 15, 2012
OPENING 4 February, 7 pm
DNA, Auguststr. 20,
10117 Berlin / GERMANY
Artists: 
Nezaket Ekici, Halflifers, Gary Hill, 
Christian Jankowski, Friederike Lorenz, 
Shahar Marcus, Andrei Ujica
Curated 
by Bjørn Melhus & Johann Nowak

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 2:39 PM

1/16/12

WHAT-IF?


TABER ART GALLERY
HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2012


WHAT-IF? 
IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED
photo & video installation 


TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS + DARRIN MARTIN

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 11:32 AM

1/15/12

GROUP SCREENING @ SCATV/ SOMERVILLE, MA

SCREENING AN EXCERPT FROM
EXTENDING TRAINER: PRESSURE SUITS & BROOM-CRAFTS 

















posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 11:03 AM

12/19/11

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE - CATALOG #2 (2011 EXHIBITIONS)

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 4:52 PM

12/8/11

PREVIEW & PURCHASE FROM BLURB.COM

2011 EXHIBITION CAT...
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posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 7:40 AM

11/21/11

FREE-RANGE

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 7:26 AM

11/6/11

24TH NY QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL

24TH NEW YORK QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
SECRET IDENTITIES
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 · 7:00PM

Superdyke
Barbara Hammer
1975, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 20 min.

Audrey Superhero
Amy Jenkins
2010, USA, video, color, sound, 9 min.
Pony Glass
Lewis Klahr
1997, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 20 min.
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
Dara Birnbaum
1978, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.
Superhero
Emily Breer
1995, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 6 min.
Dyke Dollar
Laura Terruso
2009, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min.
What If?
Darrin Martin &
Torsten Zenas Burns
2009, USA/Korea, video, color, sound, 16 min.

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 6:06 AM

10/23/11

WISTARIAHURST MUSEUM SHOW

  • WISTARIAHURST MUSEUM / HOLYOKE, MA


    November and December Gallery Exhibition:


    from a variety of artists with a wide range of talent based on or inspired by the beautiful design details and artistic features that exist throughout the historic house and gardens.  Admission to the gallery $3

    Saturday, November 5 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. 
    Opening Reception of Wistariahurst Museum Fall Artist Exhibition
    Enjoy light refreshments and conversation with the artists who have been inspired and interpreted various aspects of Wistariahurst Museum. Artists include: David Barclay, Claire Barclay, Torsten Zenas Burns, Jeffrey Byrnes, Molly Cantor, Peter Dellert, Alan Gilburg, Carol Guthrie, Lori Divine Hudson, Lee Hutt, Veronika Kruta, Margaret Loyd, Denis Luzuriaga, Jeff Margolin, Dean Nimmer, David Poppie, Laura Radwell, Gregory Stone. 
    PREMIERING "FAMILIARS" LOOPED VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES / VARIABLE TIME / 2011



posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 10:25 AM

10/15/11

HILLSIDE SALON

HILLSIDE SALON
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS / AMHERST
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH / 6PM
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS
JACOB LEFTON
ANITA LICIS-RIBAK
ELIZABETH WHYTE SCHULZE
(KOREANAUTICA 2011 - VIDEO)





posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 4:32 PM

10/13/11

RETCON:MUSICON - CLOSING MUSIC EVENT

RETCON
((RETROACTIVECONTINUITY)))
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH: 
RETCON / MUSICON PERFORMANCES: 6-11PM
CLOSING: 6-11PM - L-DOCK EXHIBITION 

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 7:05 PM

9/7/11

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE - RETCON


PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE 
was not always what it seemed to be,
for a brief time in 2009 between the Spring screening of SPECULATION(ELATION)2 and the Fall exhibition HHORRRAUTICA 4:(CRYPTO) there existed another curation event not shared with the public. This variable experience existed for only two days inside 362 Dwight Street, known then as Lake Hitchcock Center for the Arts. After re-contacting all of the participants it was decided that the RETCON projects would be shared sometime in the nearest future. We would like to give a special thanks to George Kuchar who inspired the first RETCON gathering and who now has prompted that this new continuity be rebooted. 


RETCON
((RETROACTIVECONTINUITY)))
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
OCTOBER 8TH+14TH 2011
CURATED BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS / PRODUCED BY KARI GATZKE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH: 
MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #4: 12-2PM
OPENING: 6-8PM - OUTDOOR VIDEO SCREENING: 8-11PM 
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH: 
RETCON / MUSICON PERFORMANCES: 6-11PM
CLOSING: 6-11PM - L-DOCK EXHIBITION 


L-DOCK: RETCON
TED SZCZEPANSKI
MICHAEL O'MALLEY
JEFF DEROSE
DENIS LUZURIAGA
JORDAN BIREN AND URSULA BROOKBANK
CASPAR STRACKE
VILM ALLEY: RETCON
GEORGE KUCHAR
JEFF DEROSE
MONICA PANZARINO
MICHAEL O'MALLEY
CASPAR STRACKE
MARIE LOSIER
MOBILE GEOGRAPHY 
PERFORMANCE SERIES#4 
MICHAEL O'MALLEY: SPRAYING MANTIS
VILM ALLEY: RETCON:MUSICON
THE WARBLERS
Hedges

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 4:50 PM

9/2/11

VIDEO_DUMBO - KICKSTARTER


ABOUT THIS PROJECT
video_dumbo is the annual festival of international contemporary video art. This year video_dumbo will be held on September 23-25th as part of the 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival.

We are proud to present 67 artists from 27 different countries, a number of NY/East Coast and world premieres, including works from places as remote as Chittagong, Bangladesh and Tripoli, Lebanon.

For the past seven years, video_dumbo has been an important exhibition platform for emerging filmmaker and media artists. In our continuing mission to exhibit rarely seen video art, we present a growing selection of international, thought-provoking works to our audience.

Last year, video_dumbo was described as the most outstanding and best curated event of the Dumbo Arts Festival 2010 by the 18-person festival jury of NYC-based arts professionals.

Highlights this year include eight installations under the exhibition title QUASI CINEMA, featuring works that re-appropriate film technology as well as cinematic metaphors. Exhibition artists include Leslie Thornton, Aram Bartholl, Ernesto Klar, Ali Miharbi, Naho Taruishi, Andy Graydon and Ken Jacobs. Plus, there will be an introduction by the Boston-based media art DVD magazine "Aspect," as well as a special DVD release of the video duo HALFLIFERS.

This year's program can be seen online at: www.videodumbo.org
We hope to hear back from you and looking forward to welcoming you at our festival!
Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy
directors of video_dumbo
www.videodumbo.org

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 9:19 AM

8/20/11

VIDEO_DUMBO 2011 - HALFLIFERS DVD LAUNCH

HALFLIFERS - EAST COAST DVD LAUNCH & SCREENING                                           
HalfLifers: The Complete History (1992-2010), the definitive pixel packet of tulpoidal activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For one show only, the HalfLifers will re-imagine Video_Dumbo’s hybrid screening zone into an uni-directional, construction-colored exploration projection vehicle, navigating a journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife relationships, psychic sandwich surgery, splatstick, and rescue rituals. HALFLIFERS

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 7:40 AM

8/11/11

NEW BLURB BOOK - PARSONS HALL HISTORY#1 2004-2005

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 5:11 PM

8/3/11

FILM COMMENT MAGAZINE: HALFLIFERS DVD REVIEW


FILM COMMENT - JULY/AUGUST 2011
(EXPERIMENTAL PICK)
Anthony Discenza and Torsten Zenas Burns's
collaborative project, Halflifers, is a lo-fi series of Knoxville-esque camcorder stunts wrapped up in arts-grant language. "An ordinary domestic setting is recast as a psychoactive landscape in which the concept of function becomes situational and fluid." Translation: they smear food on each other in the kitchen. With a proclivity for hazmat suits, the media art duo perform poorly staged action scenes that repeatedly disintegrate into accidental slapstick. But their series, Afterlifers: Walking & Talking, with the duo playing zombies in a riff on Romero, achieves real frisson. Footage of the things zombies get up to when no one's watching is interwoven with a dead-on parody of the end-of-the-world panel discussions from Dawn of the Dead. It's proof that while zombie movies may have moved from the grindhouse to the arthouse, no amount of irony can prevent the image of the zombie from instilling viewers with Pavlovian dread.
--Grady Hendrix

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 9:53 AM

7/6/11

STRANGE ATTRACTORS: INVESTIGATIONS IN NON-HUMANOID EXTRATERRESTTRIAL SEXUALITIES

Kickstarter Launched!
Darrin Martin and I are very excited to have our piece ANIMATRONLOVE 
included in this publication and group DVD.
This is a joint publication by Pittsburgh-based art-zine, Encyclopedia Destructica and Suzie Silver.
Encyclopedia Destructica is a community-based artist book publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania founded in 2005. http://www.encyclopediadestructica.com
The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality uses art and speculative science to creatively explore and imagine alien sexualities. It was founded in 2009 by Suzie Silver. http://extraterrestrialsexuality.org
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities
A nearly 300 page, full color book and DVD containing art, writing, and film that envisions the sexualities of beings that may some day be encountered – if not in outer space than at least in our dreams! A joint publication byEncyclopedia Destructica and the The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality, this project will publish the work of 69 artists, writers and filmmakers who have created an amazing range of expressions that expand our conception of the possibilities of alien life forms and the nature of sexual desire. Strange Attractors straddles the line between a speculative scientific exploration and a work of artistic imagination and creativity.
While science fiction literature and film have often touched on alien sexuality, these encounters are almost always represented as between a human and a humanoid alien. Gender is almost always portrayed as binary even when it is homosexual. Sexual encounters consist primarily of engagements between two beings. Inspired by Kepler’s (kepler.nasa.gov) voyage into deep space on a quest for earth-like planets, this project has gone beyond male and female, beyond queer, beyond any notion of gender, beyond the anthropomorphic to erotic possibilities as vastly varied as the universe itself. Discover what kinds of sentient beings, what types of sexualities, how many erogenous zones and types of erotic pleasure might exist out there in the universe!
We need your help to make this dream a reality! By supporting Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities not only will you receive unique rewards, such as an amazing book/DVD like no other before it, but you will be supporting independent publishing and the distribution of imaginative and experimental, visual art, writing and film. Thanks so much for you interest!
Artists, Writers and Filmmakers in Strange Attractors:
Peggy Ahwesh/ Scott Andrew/ Adam Atkinson / Matt Barton
Patricia Bellan-Gillen/ Neil Bender/ Anselm Berrigan
Kim Brickley/ Morgan Cahn/ Byron Alexander Campbell
Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand/ Cynthia Chris
Ross Christy/ Sonja Crafts/ Matthew R. Day/ Nick DeFord
Barry Doupe/ James Duesing/ Emilia Edwards
Amisha Gadani/ Amy Gerstler/ Kate Gilbert and Jenn Kolmel
Sally Hayden Gilmore/ Thomson Guster/ Andrew Hadle
Hilary Harp/ Hooliganship/ David Horvitz/ Mark Hosford
Jesse Hulcher/ Mark Brown Hunter/ Ian Ingram
Jen Inman and Tom McConnell/ Amy Johnson
Juliacks/ Christopher Kardambikis/ Christine Kelly
Krisztina Lazar/ Bum Lee/ Elin Lennox
Denise Li/ Michael Mallis and Michael McParlane
Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns
Rachel Mayeri/ Luke Meeken/ Shana Moulton
Julie Murray/ Ryan Murray/ Andrew Negrey
Michael Pisano/ Carol Prusa/ Vanessa Roveto
Alyce Santoro/ Will Schlough/ Thomas Scioli
Larry Shea/ Suzie Silver/ Lizzee Solomon
Ed Steck/ Joshua Thorson and Mike Harringer
Barbara Weissberger/ Sara Wintz/ Erin Womack
Suzanne Wright/ Zac Zetterburg

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 5:32 PM

6/23/11

SUMMER OF VIDEO ART @ KROWSWORK GALLERY

KROWSWORK GALLERY / OAKLAND, CA


August 5th - the opening of the second wave: The Feel of the Water, including work by Dale Hoyt, Kim Miskowicz, Lisa Blatt, Carolyn Radlo, Alanna Simone,George Pfau, Monica Peck, Darrin Martin, Peter Max Lawrence, Conrad Meyers II, Lucinda Luvaas, Daniel Konhauser, Torsten Zenas Burns, Carol Selter, and Sian Amoy. Through August  27th.

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 12:44 PM

5/31/11

VIDEO DATA BANK / NEW WEBSITE

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 2:17 PM

5/27/11

DiRosa / HALFLIFERS in ZOMBIE-PROOF HOUSE

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 1:37 PM

5/16/11

THE 18TH ANNUAL CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL


















THE 18TH ANNUAL 
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
HALFLIFERS AND FRIENDS: REACTIONS IN REACTION
DVD LAUNCH & SCREENING PROGRAM
MONDAY, JUNE 6TH @ 6PM
Please join us for a video launch party for the compilation DVD,
HalfLifers: The Complete History (1992-2010), the definitive pixel packet of
tulpoidal activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For
one show only, the HalfLifers will re-imagine the Gene Siskel Film Center’s
theater into a saturated fictional exploration curation vehicle, navigating a
journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife
relationships, psychic sandwich surgery, and rescue rituals. This
manifested spatio-temporal Chicago hub will sync up and collaborate with
other pictographic projection artists including Anne McGuire, Jennifer
Reeder, Joe Gibbons, Bjorn Melhus, Virocode, and Animal Charm. 

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 6:57 PM

5/8/11

KIRSTEN:YELLOW MOBILER


posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 1:33 PM

4/14/11

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (MAY 2011)

ANDREA WILLIAMS & LEE PEMBLETON
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT ONLY - MAY 14TH-9PM-9AM
SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE @ 9PM
SPECIAL THANKS TO: BROMP TREB
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE
(MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES 3)

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 8:16 PM

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (MAY 6TH)

CURATED BY DARRIN MARTIN
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (VILM SCREENING SERIES)


posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 8:06 PM

3/24/11

SUPER-GIGANTIC HALFLIFERS "GRAVICLE" DOCUMENT

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 4:27 PM

3/18/11

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (EXHIBITION CATALOG #1)

2008-2010 Exhibiti...
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THE 2008-2010 EXHIBITION CATALOG IS AVAILABLE
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*CLICK THE LINK ABOVE FOR PURCHASE AND PREVIEW.

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 8:19 AM

3/6/11

Radical Light: That Little Red Dot

Artists' Television Access presents:
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt
presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive


During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art production facilities has contributed to an equally impressive output from myriad film- and video makers. Tonight’s program presents a survey of this important work. While as aggressive and sophisticated as their performance counterpart, the work of these artists displays an equally ingenious and ground-breaking visual language and deals with such varied issues as formalism, feminism, abstract narrative, transgressive sexuality, personal biography and body politics. And, drawn from three decades of activity, the program comprises an historical microcosm of video technology, beginning with industrial and broadcast cameras and behemoth Portapaks through the Hi-8 video revolution, “cuts-only” editing, the Amiga Toaster and Avid systems, up to DV’s utopian technological plateau. Join us for an evening of the early works and rarities of some of the field’s major artists, including Jordan Biren, Nao Bustamante, Monet Clark, Torsten Zenas Burns, Cecilia Dougherty, Didi Dunphy, Dale Hoyt, Andrew Huestis, Tony Labat, Jennifer Locke, Anne McGuire, Guy Overfelt and Emjay Wilson. (Dale Hoyt)



Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street / San Francisco, CA
   (415) 824-3890 / ata@atasite.org

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 11:57 AM

1/31/11

Radical L@TE:Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party



Radical L@TE: 

Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party

February 18, 2011; 7:30 p.m.; Gallery B - (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Steve Seid and Kathy Geritz

Join us for a launch party for the compilation DVD, HalfLifers: The Complete History, the definitive pixel packet of legendary activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For one night only, the HalfLifers will repurpose Thomas Faulders’s BAMscapeas an omnidirectional, construction-colored exploration vehicle, navigating a 360-degree journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife relationships, rescue rituals, and psychic manifestations. This spatio-temporal hub will sync up with other portable pictographic projections by longtime friends and collaborators of the HalfLifers, including Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Jordan Biren, Ursula Brookbank, Christian Burns, and Animal Charm. The celebration will be consummated with an anthro-engineered dough object—by which we mean a sugar-frosted biomemory conduit activated by physical ingestion.
Special thanks to: Julie Chang (Zombie cake-maker)

posted by Torsten Zenas Burns at 6:55 AM