The Colloquium II

Wednesday July 22, 8 to 11 pm

at Casbeer's at the Church, 1719 Blanco Rd

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Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens invite you to the second Colloquium, a nomadic, intermittent series of evenings filled with a mix of quick presentations from artists on their work, with plenty of potential for discussion.

Artist-presenters include:
Chuck Ramirez
Margaret Craig
The Prime Eights (Mark Walley & Angela Guerra)
Chris Sauter
Gary Schott
Albrechto Alvarez

Plus a special short by Hills Snyder!

Admission is free, and The Colloquium is open to you and your friends. If you know artists who may be interested, please forward this invitation.

We will have some refreshments, and will not turn down contributions.

If you are an artist and think you might like to present at a future Colloquium, we hope that you'll attend this event and we'll tell you in person how you can submit materials for consideration.

Hope to see you all there (here)!

Eleven Strata and the Planetary Boundary

JASON JAY STEVENS

ELEVEN STRATA AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY

Sound and Sculpture

2 July through 2 August 2009

Joan Grona Gallery

at the Blue Star Arts Complex

112 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas 78204

opening reception: 6 pm Thursday 2 July 2009

hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm Saturday 11 am - 6pm

phone: 210.225.6334

email: jgrona@satx.rr.com

web: http://www.joangronagallery.com

The artist offers the audience a unique, virtual tour of eleven strata of atmosphere and ocean, on either side of the planetary boundary. As illustrations of the qualities of places from high in the outer Magnetosphere, through the Thermosphere, the Stratosphere, and down into Mesopelagia, Bathypelagia, and the deeper Abyss, Stevens presents a batch of mysterious experiments, curious handmade instrumentation, and eerie field recordings.

Featuring sculptures, a pair of paintings, and a pair of photographs, the centerpiece of the exhibition are two sound compositions, one each for atmosphere and ocean. These musical works are essentially performed by an ensemble made up of sculptures in the gallery, in coordination, generating a planetary rhythm and harmony. The sonic landscape varies dramatically throughout the space, but at any point can be contemplated as one work.

Potter-Belmar Labs Interviews Franco Mondini-Ruiz

Read Prodigal Son, our interview with San Antonio-born, internationally-recognized artist, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, right now at the arts blog, Emvergeoning.

This is the second in a three-part series of interviews with notable personalities in the San Antonio art scene.

Out first interview, Easy Rider, with ArtPace Director Matthew Drutt, appeared on Emvergeoning last month.

Look for the third and final installment in August.

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.

Easy Rider

Potter-Belmar Labs interviews Matthew Drutt, Executive Director of ArtPace on emvergeoning.

"I’m a big believer in cycles, and I’ve lived through a couple of them already. In boom times, I do not spin like a maniac. I also don’t horde my nuts like a squirrel. But I know that a ten year run has to come to an end, and when it crashes it sometimes crashes pretty badly."

Media Archaeology ...might be good

Are you...are you...here with me? Upon this misty mountain?



Potter-Belmar Labs reviews the Aurora Picture Show Media Archaeology Festival in this week's ...might be good e journal. This year's festival featured the Joshua Light Show, the Silver Apples, and a lecture by Robin Oppenheimer.

Media Archeology Festival by Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens

The Colloquium

Thursday April 23, 8 to 10:30pm

at Potter-Belmar Labs, 536 Roosevelt Avenue

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Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens invite you to the first Colloquium, a nomadic, intermittent series of evenings filled with a mix of quick presentations from artists on their work, with plenty of potential for discussion.

Artist-presenters include:

David Alcantar

Sabra Booth

Raul Castellanos

Thomas Cummins
Hedya Klein

Gary Sweeney
Randy Wallace
Guillermina Zabala

Admission is free, and The Colloquium is open to you and your friends. If you know artists who may be interested, please forward this invitation.

We will have some refreshments, and will not turn down contributions.

If you are an artist and think you might like to present at a future Colloquium, we hope that you'll attend this event and we'll tell you in person how you can submit materials for consideration.

Hope to see you all there (here)!

47th Ann Arbor Film Festival!

Leslie is in Ann Arbor this week with her students at the film festival.  If you are anywhere in the vicinity, check out her installation in the lobby:

Vantagepoints: Mapping the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival

(2009) 45 min, looping

media: Google Earth 4.2, 1.77GHz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB SDRAMM, 100 Mb/s Ethernet, 4x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4GB SDRAMM, Final Cut Pro 5.1

Here, the works in the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival competition are globally sited predominantly by zip code but sometimes by city or even country name. A hand-drawn map with pushpins denoting filmmakers' hometowns used to grace the Michigan Theater Lobby at film festival time. That map was the main inspiration for this video, which is essentially the same thing created using the media of our time.

Also, be sure to see vjFutureWorkerGirl performing with DJ Bob Moir on Saturday night at the Cavern Club.