What:           “IMPROVISED CINEMA”
A presentation by Potter-Belmar Labs
Who:            AKA Collective and sound art space present
Where:          206 W. Ryan St. #B, Laredo, Texas 78041
When:           Opening Saturday, April 21, from 8-10 p.m.
One night only!

AKA Collective presents “IMPROVISED CINEMA,” an audio-video live performance
presentation by San Antonio based Potter-Belmar Labs. The show takes place on
Saturday, April 21, from 8-10 p.m.  This will be a one-night-one-time only
performance.

Potter-Belmar Labs (PBL) is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating
artists since 1999, their internationally exhibited work spans a variety of
media including interactive sculpture, installation, single-channel video, and
performance.  They have won top prize in three performance competitions,
including the Unreal Tournament at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
and most recently won first prize for installation video at Orilla#06 at the
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santa Fe, Argentina.

When they perform together as Potter-Belmar Labs, they are conductors of
cinema,
live-mixing audio and video, weaving sampled media and original work, cut-up
and
stitched back together, on the fly.  Mark Wojahn, of City Club Cinema in
Minneapolis says that PBL “blows away your expectations on new media,” and San
Antonio Current editor Elaine Wolff wrote that “the duo has shredded the
contemporary video-art envelope beyond recognition.”

For more information, contact Eduardo X. Garcia, gallery director at
, or
e-mail or go to www.soundartspace.com

Artist Statement – Potter-Belmar Labs

IMPROVISED CINEMA
This evening, we will be asking the audience to supply us with “intertitles,”
–you know, like the framed words in old silent films–bits of dialog, stage
direction, description of action, aroused superstitions, points of fact,
what-have-you.  Collected and stirred up with a little Potter-Belmar magic,
these intertitles will contribute to the formation of some grand, and
mysterious, cinematic tale, cooked-up on-the-spot!  Modern day alchemy, using
early-21st Century technology as a crucible, presented in moving image and
spectrasonic sound! We are Leslie and Jason, and we mix audio and video live to
create Improvised Cinema, an experimental and experiential art
form—“story-telling of the future,” as DJ Spooky, a.k.a. that Subliminal Kid,
once called it. Some of our material is sampled and some original.  Some is
pre-composed, and some media is made up as we go along.  It’s a little bit like
DJing, VJing, jazz, playing the dada game of exquisite corpse, expanded cinema,
composition, conducting, and all that stuff mixed together. More information
about PBL and events at www.potterbelmar.org

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