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Potter-Belmar Labs performs Pandora's Unicycle at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited work spanning a variety of media including interactive sculpture, installation, single-channel video, and performance.

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In May and June of 2008, Potter-Belmar Labs will tour their latest audience-participatory live cinema work on the U.S. West Coast, by Amtrak.

In addition to being awarded the Meet the Composer grant in 2008, the couple has won top prizes in performance competitions, including the Unreal Tournament at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2005, and won first prize for video installation at Orilla#06 at the Museu de Arte Contemporáneo in Santa Fe, Argentina in 2007.

When performing, Potter-Belmar Labs are conductors of cinema, live-mixing audio and video, weaving sampled media and original work, cut-up and stitched back together, on the fly.

The duo has a diverse and growing collection of video shorts, including vignettes both operatic and abstract. They compile these works on DVD, in collections such as Low Voltage and Settings & Characters, and they have shown at festivals all over the world, including, the Fargo Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Lausenne Underground Film Festival in Switzerland, and the PDX Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Potter-Belmar Labs also creates installations, often incorporating video and audio, that present the results of a collaborative study in subjects ranging from sub-atomic physics to symbolic natural sciences to interpersonal dynamics. They create immersive spaces, intimate scenes, exemplified by the frequent use of peepholes, and unique interactive devices.

Leslie Raymond produces work in expanded cinema forms including sculpture, installation, site-specific and public art. She also performs as vjFutureWorkerGirl alongside DJs and sound artists, teaches video and digital media at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and organizes exhibitions and events of new media art.

Jason Jay Stevens is an artist, designer, and a maker of music and sound. His 3D work includes interactive museum exhibitions, furniture, and sculpture. A member of of punk rock and noise ensembles throughout the 1990s, today he composes on laptop computer for sculpture and scores for video.

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