Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation
in collaboration with
Telematic Media Arts
presents

ALONG THE PERIMETER
A Two-Channel Video Installation

Darrin Martin

January 18th - 22nd, 2023

Opening Reception: Wed, January 18th, 6 - 9pm

Saint Joseph’s Arts Society
1401 Howard Street, San Francisco

Using an eclectic mix of media capturing devices, including motion activated surveillance cameras and microscopic lenses, Darrin Martin’s Along the Perimeter, explores the sublimity in one’s own backyard, by unearthing and engaging with the abundance of nature: trees and bushes inhabited by insects, birds, and animals.  On the soundtrack, he plays the feedback noise from hearing aids in the style of a glass harp, communing with nature and highlighting the role of sound in shaping the environment, while also raising questions about the relationships between technologically mediated experience, human senses, and nonhuman (insect and animal) forms of perception.  The work was composed with a collection of hundreds of audio/visual clips that Darrin mixed and re-mixed as a live laptop-based performance, recorded, and then synchronized as a two-channel standalone installation.

***The exhibition is free and open to the public***

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Darrin Martin engages the synesthetic qualities of perception through video, performance, sculpture, and print-based installations. Influenced by his own experiences with hearing differences, his projects consider notions of accessibility through the use of tactility, sonic analogies, and audio descriptions. His works have screened at the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Pacific Film Archive (CA); Impakt Festival (Netherlands); European Media Art Festival (Germany), and many others.  His installations have exhibited at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Grand Central Art Center (CA), Aggregate Space Gallery (CA), Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum (Russia), McIntosh Gallery (Canada) and, most recently, at SOMArts (CA). 

Martin also frequently collaborates with artist Torsten Zenas Burns, building diverse speculative fictions around re-imagined educational practices and dystopian cosplay paradigms. Their works have been included in screenings and exhibitions in venues including The Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), The Paris/Berlin International, Eyebeam (NY), and Dumbo Arts Center (NY). Their most current works are multi-channel media and sculptural installations. ARK 3: Crossover exhibited at Hobert William Smith College (NY), and later traveled as a three-screen media installation to Zhangzhou Art Museum (China). Their most recent theatrical release of the ARK 3 series, Crossover Chronicles, premiered at The Chicago Underground Film Festival (IL). 

Martin received his art degrees with an emphasis on video and sculpture from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design (BFA) and new media and installation at University of California, San Diego (MFA). He has held artist residencies at Cite Internationale des Arts, Eyebeam, Experimental Television Center, Signal Culture, chaNorth, and Wassaic Project. Martin also occasionally curates exhibitions and video screenings. Born in New York, he lives in Oakland, CA and teaches art at University of California, Davis.  

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