BUSHWICK ART PROJECTS:BAPLAB 2006
A ONE DAY FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, BANDS ,AND NEW MEDIA IN BROOKLYN
http://www.bushwickartproject.org/
ALTERNATE REALITIES
(THE INFINATE SIGHTS OF A TECHNO-NATURAL LANDSCAPE)
Curated by Ashley Bellouin
Coupling past video art from the 1970s and 80s, with recent pieces by new and emerging artists, Parallel Universes highlights work that uses video as a technically performative medium while still maintaining a humanistic approach to technology. By fusing the natural and technological landscapes through the performance of video-imaging tools, these videos explore and demonstrate such notions as body distortion, perceptual disorientation, parallel universes, and even extra-evolutionary transformations.
SCREENING IN PROGRAM B
JULY 22ND 4PM-ALL NIGHT
Torsten Z. Burns and Darrin Martin: I am Today's Lesson Plan
Ernest Gusella: Video-Taping
Nate Boyce: Dual Ghoul
Vibeke Sorensen: Panini Stickers
Steina & Doris Cross: Lilith
Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler: Tempest
Phyllis Baldino: 19 Universes / My Brother
Takeshi Murata: Monster Movie
Ed Emshwiller: Sunstone (Exerpt)
Scott Stark: Shape Shift
I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN-11:00-STEREO-2004
I am Today's Lesson Plan is a unique edit of Burns' & Martin's epic Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans, which utilizes video as a trans-disciplinary curriculum exploring diverse speculative fictions and re-imagined 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. 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."
