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PBL by Stephen Graham
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past PBL performanaces:

Bearded Child Film Fest in Minneapolis
EyeWash in Brooklyn NY
Materials and Applications in Los Angeles
21 Grand in Oakland
Central Cinema in Seattle
2 Gyrlz at Rotture in Portland OR
DIVA in Eugene
Other Cinema in San Francisco
Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles
7 Dudley Cinema on Venice Beach
Basement Films in Albuquerque
RAIR in Roswell
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln
St. Cloud State University in Minnesota
The Lab at Roger Smith Hotel in New York
SuperHappyFunLand in Houston
San Antonio Current at
San Antonio Museum of Art
Sound Art Space, Laredo TX
Synthetic Zero, New York NY
Salon Mijangos, San Antonio TX
Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Allied Media Conference,
Bolling Green, Ohio
Gallery 555, Detroit MI
The Wizard Lounge, Hickory NC
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS!
@Unreal Tournament at University
of Tennesee, Knoxville TN
Midwest Tour 2005
Version05, Chicago IL
City Club Cinema, Minneapolis MN
OneTen Gallery, Madison WI
Darling Hall, Milwaukee WI
SmartShop, Kalamazoo MI
Roeper Academy, Birmingham MI
43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS!
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Sync'05, Ann Arbor MI
UnReal Tournament, Lansing MI
Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS!
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Metrospace, East Lansing MI
Detroit Art Space, Detroit MI
Dreamland Theater, Ypsilanti MI
Sensorium, Ypsilanti MI
Firefly Club, Ann Arbor MI

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This documentation from the 2005 A/V Battle shows Potter-Belmar Labs improvising a response to the topic "Sunsets."  In a round-for-round battle, the duo competed against the Earthwurms, and was awarded first place by distinguished Judges Jim Ryan and Jon Howard of the Rattling Wall Collective in Dutch.  This event was produced for the Unreal Tournament, an exhibition curated by Whitecouch in NYC, that pitted artist against artist in visual documentations of experiences, events and performances.

Combining the traditions of experimental music, film and expanded cinema, PBL creates a live mix of original music, sound and moving image, utilizing laptops and other electronic devices, responding to site, audience, and it's own evolving nature, producing a unique, all-encompassing, multimedia experience. Original compositions are interwoven with samples and soundscapes, generating a tapestry of allusion, abstract narration, and dreamlike hallucination.

Performances are audience-participatory, in any of a number of configurations, for example, PBL will incorporate contributions in the form of audience-written "intertitles" which are used to guide the content and the dynamic arc of the show. Another method may be employed in which members of the audience are invited to draw from a deck of special cards, from which Potter-Belmar Labs will then construct a sort of multimedia "Tarot" reading.

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