HHORRRAUTICA A RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUSING REIMAGINED HORROR, MEDICAL, AND COMMUNICATION HYBRIDS. CURATED BY TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS BIOGRAPHY ROBERTA BECK MEMORIAL CINEMA HOSTED AT PARTICIPANT,INC. 95 RIVINGTON ST. NYC TUESDAY JUNE 7TH 2005 8PM KNOWING&BEING 9:00 (C)2003 2/d + 3/d blue & orange fused surrogate transport vehicle. JAMES FOTOPOULOS BIOGRAPHY
ONDINE'S CURSE 11:00 (C)2000 From an era where barriers are constructed of skin, latex, and delusion comes a tale of life without borders. Ondine's Curse is a narrative of a woman who seeks out pathogens as mentors of disguised meanings. Ondine challenges the paranoia of contamination by embracing the process of infestation as a form of dialogue. Virocode. VIROCODE BIOGRAPHY
BUG-EYED RAMROD 5:00 (C)1984 "My image synthesis/image processed video work are serial constructions which are produced with custom built analog and digital processors. Each section is a synthesized real time recording where sound and image are parallel electronic structures which are mutually controlled by predetermined waveshapes.The basic compositional elements combine to diagrammatically describe situations or aspects of the human condition. Flirtation, courtship, penetration, fission and fusion are some of the processes that are found.M.S. MATTHEW SCHLANGER BIOGRAPHY
SPECTRALMATE 3:30 (C)2005 Three residency coordinators have reconstructed a 3 1/2 minute workshop conducted at the Holyoke research arts facility in Western Mass.The participants engaged in a variety of gestation activities including "manifestation coupling" & "recepticle visitations." MASKATRONICA&FEMBOTICA BIOGRAPHY
WOBULON 5:00 (C)2005 Green undulating facials,wrapped fleshing body-tapes lit with television lights and contained in a ancient brick residency hub. CHRISTIAN K. BURNS BIOGRAPHY
GRAPEFRUIT SERIES#2 5:00 (C)1999 Subsumed CHARLEY FRIEDMAN BIOGRAPHY
STELLBAR 23:00 (C)2004 THROUGH THE DOMAIN of a hyper personal narrative plumbed from vaporous sensations of a paradisical past--- "That ochre, balmy land where light shimmers endlessly through an amaranthine haze" ---through breaches of subcutaneous horror that rise inarticulate and ghost-like within a disturbing eloquence of images,sound and text,Stellbar remaims as that indefinite moment of sublimity, "clothed in a serene surround of lightless days and soft luminous evenings," where bejeweled and rapturous,to all things and everything,the end washes back to the beginning.J.B. JORDAN BIREN BIOGRAPHY
ANIMAL MIGRATIONS ( AND THE MEDIUMS THEY FACE ) Feeding ruptured loops/ alternative communication cine-devices Processing the Death-speak fuels Vocoder mysteries 22:00 (C)1995 PEER BODE BIOGRAPHY
INTERVIEW CHUNKS 7:00 (C)1984 My feeling is the dream is a link to our biologic and spiritual destiny in space,indicating a much lighter body that in certain circumstances lives without the three dimentional.The astral body is not without weight or consistency that can be felt.So,they have some mass,but much less mass,so it's certainly a step in the right direction. W.S.B. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS DOSSIER + RE/SEARCH BIOGRAPHY