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STACKED ARTIFACTS
Video Installation and Sculpture
Darrin Martin

December 6th, 2025 – January 24th, 2026

Darrin Martin creates video, sculpture, and installations that engage the synesthetic qualities of perception. Influenced by his own experiences with hearing loss and research into queer ecologies, his projects often consider notions of accessibility and media archeology using tactility and sonic rebeverations. His works have screened at the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Pacific Film Archive (CA); Impakt Festival (Netherlands); European Media Art Festival (Germany), and have been exhibited at Grand Central Art Center (CA), Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum (Russia), McIntosh Gallery (Canada), Krannert Art Museum (IL), Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), and the Saint Joseph’s Art Society in collaboration with Telematic Media Arts (CA). He also occasionally curates video screenings and exhibitions at venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (MI) and Electronic Arts Intermix (NY).

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 Zhangzhou Art Museum (China). Their most recent work premiered at The Chicago Underground Film Festival (IL). He has been awarded both solo and collaborative residencies Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris), Recology AIR (SF), and at Eyebeam, Experimental Television Center, and Signal Culture (NY). Martin is a Professor and Chair of the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at the University of California, Davis.  

Tanya Zimbardo is San Francisco-based curator and writer. Over the past decade, she has organized exhibitions and screenings for a range of Bay Area nonprofit organizations, including the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Mills College Art Museum, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Slash, and The 500 Capp Street Foundation. Zimbardo has co-edited exhibition catalogues and contributed texts to exhibition publications and journals such as Feminist Media Histories, INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and VoCA Journal.