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.

Colloquium Blog

The Colloquium is a roving series of artist talks, each with its own roster of a half dozen San Antonio-area artists from a wide range of media, backgrounds and ages, and always at a rapid pace--like a peecha kucha for the arts, complete with slideshows and a little bit of high octane cross examination by the audience.

We have a new site for The Colloquium, with records of past events and announcements of new ones. Visit!

http://colloquiumSA.blogspot.com

PBL at Chicago Filmmakers

PBL will be in Chicago on Saturday, March 20th to perform their brand of live cinema at 8 PM at Chicago Filmmakers, which is at 5243 N. Clark Street in Chicago. Watch the dynamic duo weave their improvised audiovisual hallucinations onto the screen!

You can see the Chicago Filmmakers calendar of events here: http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/navkino.htm

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.

Live Cinema Summit: Chicago February 11

It's been a looong time in the making, but finally, it's here!
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:

Black and Jones

jonCates

DataIRJ

Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown

Alessandro Imperato

Barbara Lattanzi

Robert Martin

Noisefold

Potter-Belmar Labs
Jon 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)

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.