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Territories and Infrastructure, Version Fest, Chicago IL, 04/22/10 – 05/03/10

April 18, 2010

Harlequin (Prototype)
Mixed Media
Dims var.
2010

Opening Of Version Festival
Territories Group Exhibition
@ Zhou B Center (1029 W 35th St)
www.zbcenter.org
7-10pm – exhibition runs through May 3 Opening night of Version 10 begins with Territories, a group exhibition. Meet participating artists and get an advanced look at the festival program ahead. Features work by: Tomas Moreno, Chad Gerth, Hui-min Tsen, Chris Larson, Hideous Beast (Josh Ippel, Charlie Roderick), Tim Graham, Jennifer Mills, Xavier Nuez, Miguel Guzman, Monument 1.5, Alexa Loftus, Peter Feigenbaum, Aron Gent, Aaron Delehanty, Holly Holmes, Before Cake after Dinner, Se Young, Brian Murer, Erik DeBat, Sarah Ross, Bill Mackey, Mike Slattery, Tom Burtonwood, Kariel ( Karri Kuoppala and Muriel Laesser), Heloisa Escudero, Jeff Zimmerman, Lise Haller Baggesen, Gitte Bog, Gudrun Hasle, Anni Holm, Berit Nørgaard, & Niels Post.

Curated by Dayton Castleman & Ed Marszewski

(Exhibition runs through May 3rd, Open Sat 12-5pm and by appointment: 773 837 0145)

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Don’t Piss On Me And Tell Me It’s Raining, Apex Art, NY, NY 04/07/10 – 05/22/10

April 5, 2010

Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining
Curated by Bad at Sports

April 7 – May 22, 2010

Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm

Apex Art

291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013 USA
tel. +212 431 5270
fax. +646 827 2487
info@apexart.org
hours: tue – sat 11 – 6 pm
free admission to all programs and events

Big thank you to everyone at Bad at Sports for asking me to send some work for the show at Apex Art. Below are some images of the piece i sent. It’s titled D.U. Beta, which stands for (Display Unit Beta)… it’s officially out of the prototype stage but it’s still got a few kinks hence the Beta status. For further instructions on the operation of D.U. Beta please click here

Posted in Exhibitions, News | Also tagged 2010, apex art, april, bad at sports, D U Beta, don't piss on me and tell me it's raining, exhibition, instructional video, new york, unfolding |

D. U. Beta

March 26, 2010

Instructional video for safe operation of D. U. Beta sculpture.

D. U. Beta instructional video from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Posted in News | Also tagged apex art, bad at sports, D U Beta, instructional video, unfolding |

DuBeta or Dobetter?

March 26, 2010

so i just put up a flickr set of my newest piece… tentatively titled DuBeta… as in Display Unit Beta. i know i want to title these pieces and perhaps all this new work in the style of El Lissitzky specifically his “Proun” titling, but that’s as far as i’ve got. i’ve been calling this piece “Display Unit” for a while now and that refers to the end game where this piece becomes a living surface with screens and what not… but for now the pieces are totally meat world, not moving parts, no embedded smart tech just a bit of laser cut chipboard, paint and tape. And i totally get the pseudo modernist thing and love it. anyhow so i’m thinking of calling this piece Dubeta. a conflation of Display Unit and Beta. in many ways this is the Beta, it’s not a prototype specifically but there are a few kinks still to be worked out…. Dubeta also sounds a bit like Do Better, which is also a subliminal nod i guess to Beckett and his notion of the importance of failure. so…. hmm. anyhow i’ll be shipping this piece to NYC today for the Bad at Sports show at Apex Art, “Don’t Piss on Me and Tell me it’s raining!’” …. image below shows DU prototype (Duproto) hanging out with Dubeta, you can see more of their antics in the flickr set.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, apex art, bad at sports, display unit, dubeta, duproto, exhibition, march, modernism, modernist, new york, studio, unfolding |

Chasing Two Rabbits, screening, Three Walls, Chicago, IL, 02/26/10

February 27, 2010

(Live) Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Translations, projected / performed live at Three Walls as part of Chasing Two Rabbits. Thank you to Jacob C. Hammes for his awesome musical accompaniment / score. Big thank you to Andrew Rigsby, Travis Saul and R James Healy for their help with all things animation, Maya & Final Cut. Also many thanks to Shannon Stratton and Sonia Yoon for organizing the event and asking me to take part.

Posted in Exhibitions | Also tagged animation, Chasing Two Rabbits, cube, event, geometric, Jacob C. Hammes, live, maya, performance, screening, three walls, Time Based, unfolding |

Translations

February 25, 2010

Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.

Final version. Titled “Translations.” Come to Three Walls on Friday Feb 26th, doors at 6pm to see it in person.

Posted in News | Also tagged 2010, Chasing Two Rabbits, cube, Jacob C. Hammes, performance, permutations, screening, three walls, translations, unfolding |

first draft

February 22, 2010

first draft of the new animation for threewalls screening on friday, i’m really happy with some bits of this, other bits need to be tweaked, but i’ve got like 3-4 more sequences ready to plug in and a few more that haven’t been made in maya yet, but i’m liking the retro, glitchy feel to the visuals and loving the unfolding cubes….. now if only i could make these in real life… if you wanna see this finished and projected on a wall with awesome musical accompaniment hustle on over to threewalls on friday.