For those of you who missed the live performance of I Am Curious (Remix) in September, here is a consolation prize:
I Am Curious (Remix) by Potter-Belmar Labs from Potter-Belmar Labs on Vimeo.
Showing posts with label live cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label live cinema. Show all posts
I Am Curious (Remix) – post-performance report
First of all, thanks to everyone who came to fill up the Heights Theater. You were a great audience, and we really enjoyed meeting those of you who came to talk to us after the performance. Thanks also to Aurora Picture Show, and the Heights Theater.
We're very happy with how the performance came out, and hopefully we'll be repeating it at other venues in the future. But being able to perform it at the site that got burned down for daring to show the original film, well, there's no substituting the historical thrill of it.
Of course, we've got other projects planned as well, but they're not mutually exclusive. Stay tuned!
We're very happy with how the performance came out, and hopefully we'll be repeating it at other venues in the future. But being able to perform it at the site that got burned down for daring to show the original film, well, there's no substituting the historical thrill of it.
Of course, we've got other projects planned as well, but they're not mutually exclusive. Stay tuned!
I Am Curious Remix
As part of Aurora Picture Show's Media Archaeology festival, PBL will go to the Heights Theater in Houston this Friday, September 17th to reminisce about arsons past with a live cinema performance. You could think of it as a seance for a controversial movie, or a Citizen Kane-like post mortem examination of a puzzling reaction. What was this film, why did it draw fire, and did it deserve it?
In June of 1969, arsonists set fire to Houston's Heights Theater during a run of the controversial film "I am Curious (Yellow)," by Swedish writer/director, Vilgot Sjöman. Live cinema artists Potter-Belmar Labs will investigate this history within the context of late-60s Houston, taking into account the broader censorship movement of the age as well as the phenomenon of reactionary violence in our own time. Potter-Belmar's live cinema performance will center on a remix of Sjoman’s film, exploiting the kaleidoscope shape of the film in their performance. Mature content warning.
Friday, September 17, 8PM
Location: Heights Theater, 339 W. 19th Street
FREE Admission
In June of 1969, arsonists set fire to Houston's Heights Theater during a run of the controversial film "I am Curious (Yellow)," by Swedish writer/director, Vilgot Sjöman. Live cinema artists Potter-Belmar Labs will investigate this history within the context of late-60s Houston, taking into account the broader censorship movement of the age as well as the phenomenon of reactionary violence in our own time. Potter-Belmar's live cinema performance will center on a remix of Sjoman’s film, exploiting the kaleidoscope shape of the film in their performance. Mature content warning.
Friday, September 17, 8PM
Location: Heights Theater, 339 W. 19th Street
FREE Admission
Goin' to California, part 2 - PBL at the Egyptian Theater
On Sunday, May 23, LA FilmForum present Potter-Belmar Labs at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard!Nevermind the movies! Come see CINEMA mixed LIVE before your very eyes! Like you've never seen it before!Time, space, and the unknowable aleph, old cowboy movies and a mysterious cocktail party of ghosts--from the past! from your past!, a terrible fire and a cosmic escape! All this and more!
Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Blvd
7:30 PM, Sunday May 23
$10 general admission
For lots more information about the show, including quotes and pictures, see LA Filmforum's page.
Goin' to California, part 1 - PBL at Other Cinema
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May 15, 8:30 PM, $7 admission
at the ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia, San Francisco CA
Here's what Other Cinema has to say about their upcoming live cinema show:
Rolling in on the Starlight Express, Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens are back again in our live-cinema lab with another completely new A/V performance. The couple creates a real-time mix of improvised cinema, manipulating audio and video, weaving sampled media and original work, cut-up and stitched back together on the fly. It's been called "the storytelling of the future." We are honored to host them as they move up the West Coast, returning by popular demand! Opening the show is a half-hr. ensemble of old and new works, hot off the hard drive of our English ally Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), another practitioner of cut-and-paste collage, where found footage is re-contextualized with a Surrealistic edge. Vicki is posting her greatest hits, plus these three debuts: Parade, Skewed Gardens, and an exclusive mini-marvel for OC!
21st C Psychedelic trip report
Wow, there wasn't an empty seat in the house last night. Thanks to everyone who came to share our externalized brain-dances. And to all who tried to come but were too late to snag a seat: don't despair, there will be more. Keep an eye on us, we'll welcome you wherever we go.
Pictures of the performance at PBL's Flickr.
21st Century Psychedelic, PBL performance at San Antonio Museum of Art
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the psychedelic light shows of the 60s to the Post-Modern age with this live performance of moving image and sound, utilizing laptops and other electronics. Collaborating since 1999, artists Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens have performed live cinema across North America, in addition to exhibiting interactive installation art and single-channel experimental video. In keeping with the flavor of the Psychedelic show, PBL will perform their handcrafted audiovisual hallucinations, offering colorful optical fantasies and intriguing sound sensations.
PBL at Chicago Filmmakers
You can see the Chicago Filmmakers calendar of events here: http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/navkino.htm
Coverage of the New Media Caucus's Live Cinema Summit
Here is a very enthusiastic recount of the performances at the Live Cinema Summit, written by Nicholas Sagan. PBL was one of the live cinema performers at the event, and Leslie actually organized the whole thing. A quote from the article: "it was tremendous!"
There's also coverage, over here, of a round table discussion about the speakers' experiences as faculty members and directors in the field of New Media. Leslie, being both, was one of the guest speakers.
FURTHERMORE, Leslie also presented at this meet & greet event, and evidently influenced the naming thereof (who uses the word "colloquium" these days? PBL, that's who).
There's also coverage, over here, of a round table discussion about the speakers' experiences as faculty members and directors in the field of New Media. Leslie, being both, was one of the guest speakers.
FURTHERMORE, Leslie also presented at this meet & greet event, and evidently influenced the naming thereof (who uses the word "colloquium" these days? PBL, that's who).
All of these things were part of New Media Caucus events for the 98th College Art Association conference, held in Chicago in February 2010.
A snapshot from PBL's performance at Art of This
Leslie and Jason, silhouetted against the warm glow of improvised cinema. Jan 22, 2010, Minneapolis MN.
Live Cinema Summit: Chicago February 11
As the New Media Caucus Vice President in charge of Exhibitions (for the past several years), I am super-proud to claim this one as my baby. It's going down in conjunction with the annual College Art Association conference in Chicago next week!
Announcing: The New Media Caucus Live Cinema Summit!
Thursday February 11, 2010 / 5-10:30PM
Columbia College Chicago - Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor
Free & open to the public!
A one-night-only showcase of ten national and international artists/artist collectives working in the emerging field of real-time audio-visual performance. The event features a full line-up of back-to-back live cinema performance demonstrations with break-out discussions and plenty of room for dialogue.
featuring:
DataIRJ
Potter-Belmar LabsJon Satrom
Live Cinema:
"... real-time mixing of images and sound for an audience, where the sounds and images no longer exist in a fixed and finished form but evolve as they occur, and the artist's role becomes performative..." Holly Willis (Afterimage Vol 37, No 1, p. 11)
PBL journeys forth to the northern tundra
On Friday the 22nd at 7:30 PM, they'll bring their live cinema performance to Art of This, crowned "Best Art Gallery of 2009" by Minneapolis City Pages.
Then Saturday the 23rd at 1 PM, they'll perform on Medicine Lake (yes, on) as part of the Art Shanty Project, specifically as guests inside the Fanta Shanty. This is PBL's half of a bargain struck with the Art Shanty folks, in which PBL dared them to participate in Contemporary Art Month. Art Shanty director David Pittman & artist Stephen Rife came to San Antonio in July 2008 and sweat up a storm putting on a couple outdoor video screenings and a pyrotechnic performance... so now it's PBL's turn to go up there and freeze their butts off bringing live cinema where few dare step: the middle of a lake.
Potter-Belmar Labs' performance at The Lab, December 2009
Here's a little prelude to some tension in the plotline of our live cinema performance at the penthouse conservatory at the Roger Smith Hotel in Manhattan in December:
Live Cinema Performance at SPACES Gallery
Art Outside!
If you don't have anything pressing to do this weekend there is some kind of art Woodstock going on at Apache Pass, Texas. From what I read at their website (go to it, it is very interesting), from the 9th to the 12th of October there will be all kinds of art among the trees: music, visual art, craft, performances, pretty much everything. It promises to be full of all kinds of fun. And PBL will be performing there too! So if you don't go for the nature, go for the PBL performance.
Potter-Belmar Labs will be doing their Fortune performance in a tent at sundown on Saturday, Oct 11. Inside, they will be reading audiovisual fortunes to small, intimate groups of people. Go get your fortune told!
You can buy tickets for Art Outside here: https://beticketing.com/_E1_view.php?editid1=53
Potter-Belmar + W ((aa)) ou w) at Squeaky Wheel
Jason, Jax & Leslie
On Saturday, August 1, Potter-Belmar Labs and Buffalo-based band W ((aa))ou w) (pronounced 'wow') regaled the audience at Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center with two surreal sets of live music and video mixing like ne'er a buffalo has seen. W ((aa))ou w) is Jim Abramson, Tristan Trump, and Jax DeLuca, who is also Programming Director at Squeaky Wheel.
Rust Fest 08
Beginning June 13th, the McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University will open the exhibition Rust Fest, featuring the work of graduate students enrolled in MFA programs in digital arts and new media from eight universities across the United States.
The opening of the festival on Saturday, June 13 will include an exciting performance piece by Potter-Belmar Labs, presenting a live mix of music and video projection. Both artists perform from laptop computers augmented by external digital devices used to manipulate their palette of images and sounds. The performance begins at 7:00pm and will take place in the McDonough auditorium.
The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am until 4:00pm with extended hours on Wednesday evenings until 8:00pm. The exhibition and all related programming are free and open to the public. For further information please call 330.941.1400
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown Ohio 44555
Telephone 330.941.1400
Potter-Belmar Labs live at the Santa Fe Complex
This Friday, 29 May at 8pm
An evening of live cinema performance, experimental videos, and discussion with Potter-Belmar Labs.
Santa Fe Complex is located at 632 Agua Fria, next to the Railyard Art District. Click here for a map to the location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing.
For more information, call 505/216.7562.
With Be Johnny at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles
Potter-Belmar Labs collaborates with VJ duo, Be Johnny, on a live cinema performance this week
during the New Media Caucus reception for the digital media art show @
during the College Art Association 2009 Annual Conference
at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles
9:30PM Thursday February 26
New Media Caucus Reception: for the Exhibition "@"
Curated by James Morgan, Leslie Raymond, E. Marie Robertson, and Vagner M. Whitehead
with “Analog Interactivity” curated by xtine burrough
a virtual performance by Second Front
and live cinema by Be Johnny and Potter-Belmar Labs
SCI-Arc is located a short cab ride (3 miles) from the Convention Center, near Little Tokyo
The exhibit and panels are in the SCI-Arc’s W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, located near the center of the building.
SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick St, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue
driving instructions
during the New Media Caucus reception for the digital media art show @
during the College Art Association 2009 Annual Conference
at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles
9:30PM Thursday February 26
New Media Caucus Reception: for the Exhibition "@"
Curated by James Morgan, Leslie Raymond, E. Marie Robertson, and Vagner M. Whitehead
with “Analog Interactivity” curated by xtine burrough
a virtual performance by Second Front
and live cinema by Be Johnny and Potter-Belmar Labs
SCI-Arc is located a short cab ride (3 miles) from the Convention Center, near Little Tokyo
The exhibit and panels are in the SCI-Arc’s W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, located near the center of the building.
SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick St, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue
driving instructions
Sala Diaz last Friday
J-Parr posts photos of last weekend's guerrilla PBL performance at Sala Diaz on emvergeoning.
We projected video and noise from the Big Red Van, towards/at/onto the Sala Diaz art house, while the DJ Brothers Boyd slammed discs on the inside, during one of many events scheduled during John Mata's inhabitance of the Gallery.
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