Potter-Belmar Labs: report

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Two selected minutes from I Am Curious (Remix)

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.

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!

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.

Colloquium V - thanks for coming!

Thanks to:

Everyone who showed up at the fifth Colloquium to enjoy the arts and popcorn along with us. I had fun, did you have fun? It was fun.
The artists, who shared their stories and motivations with us. Squids and cookies and glass and theater and burlesque, oh my.
Southwest School of Art and Craft, for providing the venue, the food and drink, and a lot of help and kindness.

There are pictures of the event available at the Potter-Belmar Labs Flickr.

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).

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.

Colloquium IV - thanks for coming!

The fourth Colloquium was another success. We had a pretty big turnout, and a great set of presentations followed by some fairly bold Q&A. Thanks to the presenters and to everyone who came, and especially to High Wire Arts for generously offering to host on short notice.

You can see more pictures of the event at PBL's Flickr.

Don't miss the next Colloquium, CAM edition. Watch this space for more info!

PBL Recieves Idea Fund

PBL joined ten other individual artists and arts groups to recieve the 2010 Idea Fund at a reception at Houston's DiverseWorks.

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:

San Antonio Casts a Spell - Trailer!

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Seeing Art San Antonio - Potter-Belmar Labs gets visited

Yesterday morning, a group of ladies led by Donna Simon dropped by PBL to get a little tour of the place, the studios, and the ideas behind the art. Coffee was served, art was seen and discussed, and good times were had.

The tour group got to see Leslie's video mixer in action, as well as a little peek of the animation process in the making of San Antonio Casts a Spell, which will be shown at The Lab in New York this December. There was some interesting discussion about video as a new medium, freer than painting or photography from the constraints and dogmas of hundreds of years of history.

Then they were led down to Jason's studio, where he showed them some fun museum exhibit props, among them a huge wooden combination lock that shows the way such mechanisms work. He also introduced them to his board games in progress, Orbit and a yet unnamed one featuring Buddhas in a labyrinth of movable walls.

If you think the idea of a guided tour through San Antonio artists' studios sounds intriguing, visit the Seeing Art San Antonio website at http://www.seeingartsanantonio.com/ and register for a tour.

Review of Strong National Museum of Play

Read Jason's award-winning ExhibitFiles.org review of Rochester's Strong National Museum of Play.

Chalk It Up 2009

Saturday was a great day for working outdoors - not too sunny (ominously cloudy in fact), full of kids, and full of artists. Good day to draw a board game on the sidewalk. It didn't rain, fortunately!

PBL may be known for their work in video and new media, but the interactive and participatory aspect that they use in their video work translated very well to sidewalk chalk drawing. Dozens of kids took part in the life-size board game, and they liked it.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and thanks to Artpace for inviting PBL to be a Showcase Artist. It was a blast.

PBL's Lunchbox Series Talk at Artprize

Well folks, Artprize is over for our heroes, who didn't quite make it to the top ten. But they still had a grand time at Grand Rapids! Thanks to the thousands of people who stopped by!

Yesterday (October 5), Leslie and Jason gave a Lunchbox Series talk; a free lecture series that they were invited to participate in to talk about Artprize, art, etc. Their lecture was one of three "Competing Couples"-themed lectures. See the video:

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.

Death of CAM Parade

Thanks everyone for making the parade a great success!

If you didn't make it, here's some things to look at to show you how it went down (and what you missed):

The Death of Contemporary Art Month from The Prime Eights on Vimeo.

Mark & Angela Walley (The Prime Eights) made this video documenting the parade.

Julie Garcia of the San Antonio Express News has an article up in Art Beat.

Benjamin Olivo has this post in The Downtown Blog, with lots of pictures!

More pictures at this slideshow in the San Antonio Express News.

Thanks to the more than 50 people that showed up to give the July CAM a proper send-off to the underworld!

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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