David Burns

Senior Lecturer, School of Design
Course Director - Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media, School of Design

Advanced Architectural Design, MSAAD (Columbia University)
Email: David.Burns@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8649
Fax: +61 2 9514 8787
Room: CB06.06.16 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Biography
David Burns creates objects and situations that explore the relationship between space and image. His work produces moments in which the simple differentiation between two-dimensional and three-dimensional is challenged. The evolution of his practice is based on the understanding that space and image now occupy a similar domain and possess a shared lexicon.

Burns is the director of newly formed Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media within the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. The foundation of the new degree is an understanding that the education of a photographer must include a study of space, culture, and emerging technologies. The introduction of a binary relationship with “situated media” provides this expansion. The coupling of these two disciplines creates a productive tension and a relational investigation that elevates the discussion to one based in experimentation and speculation.

Educated at Columbia University (MSAAD, 2000) and the University of Tennessee (BArch, 1996), Burns’ career has included working at leading design offices and institutions in the United States such as Asymptote Architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, among others. Since 2001 he has taught at universities in the United States and Australia in schools of design, art and architecture.

His work has been exhibited in Australia, Canada, Italy, Russia and the United States, including the 2000 and 2008 Venice Architecture Biennales and the 2001 Arch Moscow. Selected publications include Young Blood (AD, London), Architectural Laboratories (NAi, Rotterdam), Less Aesthetics, More Ethics (Marsilio, Venice), Metropolis Magazine, Architectural Record, Architecture Australia, Architecture Review Australia, Domus, and Abitare.

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Publications

Conference Papers

Burns, D. 2003, 'Operative Methods - IDM_Introduction to Digital Media', Unstaked Territories: Frontiers of Beginning Design, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK USA, April 2003 in Proceedings of Unstaked Territories: Frontiers of Beginning Design, ed Eric Connell, Oklahoma State University, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Stillwater, OK USA, pp. n/p-n/p.

Original Creative Works

Burns, D. 2010, 'Two-Planes', CO-ISOLATED, Australian Galleries, Shed 29 South Sydney Corporate Park, Burke Road Alexandria.
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Burns, D. 2009, 'Moire Studies', "Remodelling Architecture: Architectural Places - Digital Spaces", Australian Architecture Association, Sydney Customs House.
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Burns, D. 2009, 'Triptych 01', Triptych 01, DAB, UTS, DAB LAB Research Gallery.
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Burns, D. 2008, 'Moire House', 2008 Venice Biennale, Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Pavilion, Venice.
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Burke, A.J., Hewett, B.R., Jakovich, J., Lahoud, A. & Burns, D. 2008, 'States of Convergence', Critical Visions 08, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Customs House, Sydney, Exhbiition Center, Florence (Beyond Media Festival).
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Burns, D. 2007, 'Banding', The Charm Bracelet Project, The Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
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Burns, D. & Morris, J. 2007, 'Flux 15', Flux 15, Flux 15 Community Based Arts Group, Three Rivers Arts Festival.
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Burns, D. & Morris, J. 2007, 'Footsteps', Arise, Salvage/Salvation, Pittsburgh.
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Burns, D. 2006, 'Out of Sync', Partisan Project, Partisan Project.org, 5151 Gallery.
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Burns, D., Morris, J. & Gray, A.H. 2005, 'End on End', End on End, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh City Paper.
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Burns, D. 2005, 'Inside Out', By Design, Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival.
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Burns, D. 2005, 'P.O.V.', Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works, Mattress Factory Art Museum, Mattress Factory Art Museum.
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Other research activity

Burke, A.J., Burns, D. 2007, 'Continuum: Tactics for Contingent Environments', Pittsburgh Cultural Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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