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I Am Today's Lesson Plan

Torsten Zenas Burns

2004 00:10:30 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3Video

Description

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."

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About Torsten Zenas Burns

Burns was born in 1968 and lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his M.F.A. in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.   Burns and Darrin Martin began their collaborations in the video and sculpture programs at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University where they both received a B.F.A.  

Burns creates videotapes, photographs, and installations exploring fictions that include zombie and afterlife relationships, experimental space programs, fictional medical practices, and psychic slapstick/splatstick routines. Burns has several collaborators including Anthony Discenza of HalfLifers, VIROCODE, and The Foundry dance group.