Torsten Zenas Burns is a video artist / curator living in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his BFA in video in 1990 from the New York State College of Art & Design at Alfred University, and his MFA in New Genres: video and performance art from The San Francisco Art Institute in1993. He has created & curated video, photo and installation projects exploring speculative content, including re-imagined EDU practices, experimental space programs, zombie /afterlife relationships, post-human fictions. Collabotronica projects include collaborations with Anthony Discenza ( HALFLIFERS), Darrin Martin, James Fotopoulos and Christian Burns.
Selected video work is distributed by The Video Data Bank.
Burns has participated in 8 residency's including The Experimental Television Center (NY) and L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program (NY). Burns has screened video at the NYC Museum of Modern Art and The Pacific Film Archive (CA).
In 2011 he curated “RETCON" for Parsons Hall Project Space.