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Friday, April 27, 2007

Time has flown since the lightbox project.
Here is a link to the projecitons I have been up to since that time.

Last night Jay and I performed at the Current's Best of San San Antonio shin-dig at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Hey, and guess who won Best Fresh Face!

Thursday, August 10, 2006

New Lightboxes!

The Morphon Delegation (Third Order)
is a discovery of organic formations in the digital substrata.
Third order morphology refers to symmetry
in the 2 halves of the body.

lightboxes of varying dimenstions
by Leslie Raymond, 2005-2006

on exhibit at Salon Mijangos
August 12 - September 1
closing reception Sunday August 27, 4-6pm

1906 South Flores, San Antonio TX
210-271-9592

Potter-Belmar Labs at Salon Mijangos

Saturday August 12, 2006
Salon Mijangos
1906 S. Flores, San Antonio TX
6-9pm

"Potter-Belmar Labs has already shredded the contemporary-videoart envelope beyond recognition, but the San Antonio duo will try to top their previous accolades ("blows away your expectations of new media" is oft-quoted) Saturday at Salon Mijangos with an improvised video-and-music performance narrated by the audience's collective (sub)conscious".

- Elaine Wolff

click to read the rest of the article

PBL played 2 sets Saturday night to full houses, albeit an intimate space.

We solicited & projected (on an overhead projector)* intertitles from the audience on which we then based the structure of each set.

It was a great challenge, forcing us to find new ways of connecting our materials together that we never would have thought of.

Audience members became engaged beyond the level passive observer, more committed due to the direct input, and never quite knowing when/if/how thier contribution might be used.

*note the second photo below; the intertitle is visible in the upper-left: "On a reluctant persute (sic) for closure"

Shots courtesy of Justin Parr of Flight Gallery

Green Eggs and CAM Video Lounge

images shot by Michelle Monseau
inside the Green Eggs & CAM video lounge

Sunday July 30, 2006
Cameo Theatre
1123 East Commerce
San Antonio TX

this is a project I conceived of as my contribution to San Antonio's Contemporary Art Month, aka CAM

ART DOX program -

Buster Graybill / Poking Around / 2006 / 4:04

Bunnyphonic / Endless Capacity For Joy / Performance at Cactus Bra / First Friday, July 2006 / 2:34

Artpace / July 6, 2006 / :11

Juan Ramos / Gut Pillar / 2005 / 5:08

Leslie Raymond / Jimmy Kuehnle's Tell Me a Story / Performance at Bluestar / July 28, 2006 /1:26

Derrick Durham / Cheese Food Is Neither / Installation at 3 Walls / First Friday, July 2006 / 2:43

Deborah Keller-Rihn / The 21 Apects of Tara / 2006 / 3:59

Leslie Raymond/ Matt Tells Me Nam June Paik's Last Story / Bluestar / July 28, 2006 / 3:08

Leslie Raymond / Judith's Lemonade / 2006 / :53 / silent

Ed / Justin Parr / :15

Glass Tire Talent Contest / Suede Lounge / July 12, 2006 / 2:10 / silent

Justin Parr / Andy & Ben / :21

Jimmy Kuehnle / Painting In A Day / 2006 / 4:55

Justin Parr / Pink Lemonade / Installation at i2i / July 14, 2006 / :38

Laura Robles / Under Social Reconstruction / Porto-Potty-Posse / July 6, 2006 /6:48

Leslie Raymond / Jimmy Kisses the Sky / Performance at C-Art / July 12, 2006 / :17 / silent

Trent Harkraker / Trent's CAM / 2006 / 5:08

BODY LANGUAGES

monitor 1:

Julia Barbosa-Landois / Red Hot Salsa / 2006 / 15:05 / silent

Scott Stark / More than Meets the Eye / 2005 / 19:43

monitor 2:

Sabra Booth / Devil Girl / 2006 /2:24

Ricky Yanas / Conflicts and Resolutions / 2006 / 3:36

LYRICAL

Joan Fabian / Morph Pity Pattern / 2006 / :59

Mike Ramirez / Broken Signal / 2006 / :54

Buster Graybill / Poking Around / 2006 / 4:04

Heather Davis & Ben Judson / Burn / 2006 /2:02

Bryan DeLaGarza / Super Farmer / 3:21

Josue Morales Urbina / #6 / 2005 / 2:24

Neal Cox / Composition for Two Lengths of PVC Pipe for Four Performers / :20

Potter-Belmar Labs / The Edge of Elysium/ 2005 / 8:14

Rabbit Less / Parable / 2002 / 9 min / silent

PROJECTIONS, INSTALLATIONS, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Rabbit Less / Parable / 2002 / silent

Justin Boyd / Shotgun Series: Drifting Mix

Node 101 / Michael Verdi / video blogs

Supersonic Screen / curated by Antony Flackett and Leslie Raymond

J Derrick Durham / The Roman Empire Never Died / 2006 / 20 min

Jason Barnes / Somewhere Between Here and There: A Dream Sequence / 2006 / 3-channel installation / silent

John Mata / Surprise Surprise Surprise / 2006 / 5 min

Karen Mahaffey / Still With Reflections / 2006 / infinite

MORE WORK SCREENED:

Bill Colangelo / Water Music / 5:10

Bryan DeLaGarza / Basquitball / 1:02

Mimi Kato / I am: Berlin / 2006 /9:11

Deborah Keller-Rhin /The 21 Apects of Tara / 2006 / 3:59

Deborah Keller-Rhin / El Jardin / 2006 / 3:43

Jimmy Kuehnle / Water Movie / 15:06

Andy Miller / Pool Day / 2006 / 1:36

Michelle Monseau / Puff (Snapshots) / 2006 / 3:44

Justin Parr /belgie 919.avi

Justin Parr / ketch up 061.avi / :44

Justin Parr / gaucho 058.avi / :30

Justin Parr / blue crayon 016.avi / :12

Justin Parr / flight to 288-Untitiled.avi /:22

Potter-Belmar Labs / Shack in the Middle of Nowhere / 2005 / 7:08

Potter-Belmar Labs / Moscow 1916 / 2005 / 8:14

Potter-Belmar Labs /Rushes / 2005 /13:20

Chuck Ramirez / Is That All There Is? / 2006 /2:54

Robbie Ramirez / Gay Life In Berlin / 2006 /5:22

Laura Robles /MP Talking / 2006 /1:24

Laura Robles / Faces & Places of Texas II / 2006 / 7:27

Laura Robles /TZA / 2006 /4:00

Eric Sanden / Soap Opera / 16:37

Misty Sweets / The Last Man on Earth / 2006 / 9 min

Joey Vichareli / dot com / 2006 / 3:13

Second Saturday in July 2006

SITE STUDY 0
Date: Saturday July 8, 2006 9pm-12am
Site: 1906 Complex, Loading Dock
Occasion: Second Saturday at Andy's Building

Potter-Belmar Labs' first performance in San Antonio, and first performance in almost exactly one year to the date; we set up in Andy Benavides' warehouse, aiming a projection of audio and video jazz up onto the rear-screen to be seen by the audience on their folding metal chairs in the parking lot. Our tech-station lies on the path between Jessica DeCuir's Mash-up record cover collages at Salon Mijangos, and the new CAM shows at Flight and 1906.

Site considerations included
audience seating and traffic flow
the social nature of the event (multiple receptions) and its impact on attention-span

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Beantown

View this clip on Vimeo

February 20
BEAT RESEARCH at
the Enormous Room
Cambridge, MA

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

First San Antonio Gig

early November
Medusa Lounge
downtown San Antonio

a Saturday night in November
with DJ Eric Ross of soniquarium.net
who built a groove and kept it all night.

The booth was so small that evolving to Arkaos+laptop is a consideration.

angling for a regular gig there
and perhaps eventually an exhibition of lightbox work
could contribute some web presence
by posting about them on here

Monday, December 05, 2005

First Gig Since Leaving Ann Arbor

early October
21 Grand
Oakland CA

improvising to the electronic freeform of
- Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara)
- Chris Kubick
- Marielle Jakobson + Agnes Szelag
- Ben Bracken + Luis Maurette + Gregg Kowalski

Chris set up the gig.
Me in town to visit Anne & Chris,
& see their Joseph Cornell talk at Yerba Buena!
show & tell in Anne's class at UC Berkeley
and Craig Baldwin's class at SFAI
plus performing in Oakland.
It was a great trip.

no pix from the gig... but here's one of me & Craig.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Pandora's Unicycle

Friday 8 July 2005

This was the last Potter-Belmar Labs performance in Ann Arbor.
It took place at the University of Michigan Digital Media Commons, and consisted of a loose narrative in 4 movements:

I. Exposition: the Gift of Fire
II. She Opens the Box
III. Trouble
IV. the Return

Big thanks to the DMC folks who ran tech and documented our piece:
Jacques Mersereau & Ryan Wilcox

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival

jumping back in time a few months...

March 2003
vjFutureWorkerGirl
with dj Bob Moir at the Firefly
Friday night salon

Potter-Belmar Labs
performs Characters
Saturday night on the Michigan Theater main stage

Thursday, June 30, 2005

aaSwarmArt

June 2005
Potter-Belmar Labs
Solaris: Tent of Thee Summer Solstice
performance at AASWARMART
Work Gallery, Ann Arbor
photos by Jason Engling

It was sweet be a part of Zack Denfeld's AASWARMART project, a social sculpture extravaganza utilizing the UM Art School's Work Gallery as its headquarters. Located on bustling State Street, the whole affair drew much public interest and participation.
Let's hear it for helping the "normal people" get connected with art--
Way to go Zack!
Make sure to check out the swarmart blog!

PBL mixed it up inside of the old NIB tent* using Tarkovsky's sci-fi film Solaris as a base-line for an homage to the summer solstice. The film builds a dynamic between the futuristic (albeit bachelor-pad style cluttered) space station and the humanity of its inhabitants, who's deepest emotional longings become embodied in earthy physical form. A kind of Tiamat vs. Marduk theme emerges regarding the quest for structured, ordered meaning and the unruly chaos of existence.

*The Nomatic Information Broadcasting Studio & Portable Exhibition Venue was my project six years ago, when Michael Rodemer led a band of motley art & tech students to Germany for a few weeks. You can view the original "blog" at http://www.umich.edu/~elray/NIBhtml/index.html
I traveled with the tent, a projector, video camera, and laptop. I wrote the pages in HTML, and learned how to update my website at internet cafes on the fly. In 1999, "blogging" was still a twinkle in its mommy's eye, as I sought new modes of expression and communication.The tent served as a space for social sculpture interactions, including free hand massages and video-diary screenings.

JOMAS (1)

June 2005
Potter-Belmar Labs performs at
Journal of Motion & Sound DVD release party
555, Detroit
photos by Ross Orr

Potter-Belmar Labs gets to perform for the release party along with our pals the Shenanigans, and FJ Julie Meitz. Excellent performances by all!

Potter-Belmar Labs from above

Potter-Belmar Labs

Julie Meitz & FWG

Potter-Belmar Labs screenshot

JOMAS (2)

futureWorkerGirl

Potter-Belmar Labs (FWG + spokeNine)

spokeNine

Julie Meitz

Hickory, North Carolina... the Wizard Lounge

June 2005
Potter-Belmar Labs at the Wizard Lounge
Hickory, NC

Projexorcism invited us to their town, Hickory NC, after the Tournament in Knoxville.

We played an old biker bar, the Wizard Lounge, between punk rock sets.
It definitely took me back to the Day when I was publishing my 'zine Dead Fish Month by Month.

(L to R) Nicholas Sorlein, Phase (Projexorcism), futureWorkerGirl, spokeNine, and Meximese (in front)

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Unreal Tournament: Round 2/Knoxville

June 2005
Potter-Belmar Labs
at the Unreal Tournament: Round 2
Downtown Gallery/University of TN, Knoxville
A/V-J battle against Projexorcism

pre-battle
sushi-special dinner:
fastest chopsticks competition
photo of Julian Stark's video-documentation
winner: yours truly

View this clip on Vimeo

the A/V Battle competition:
Projexorcism from Hickory, North Carolina
an honorable engagement!
Ed Cooper (L) and Phase (R)

Referee Meximese Nguyen
judges behind his left shoulder are
Charlie Thomas, Beauvais Lyons, and Kevin Bradley of Yee-Haw Industries

back row: Mike Berry (UT Downtown Gallery Director), Jason Brown (UT sculpture faculty), Jason Jay Stevens (Potter-Belmar Labs), Joseph Whitt (Unreal Tournament, Round 1 Winner), Phase & Ed Cooper (Projexorcism)
middle row: Julian Stark & Jonathan Gougn (Whitecouch)
front: Vihn Nguyen (referee), vjFutureWorkerGirl, Nicholas Sorlien

PBL takes first place!