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JASON JAY STEVENS

Jason Jay Stevens
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Jason Jay Stevens is an artist, designer, and fabricator of interactive sculpture and museum exhibits. He composes music, including soundtracks for video, and has worked and performed extensively with his wife, the moving image artist Leslie Raymond, as the group Potter-Belmar Labs.

Stevens' sculpture and installations have exhibited around the United States, Canada, and Germany. His work includes sound art, novel furniture and interactive devices. His most recent work, "Eight Gestures in Airborne Rope + Embellishments," an installation, debuted at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center during San Antonio's Contemporary Arts Month, in July of 2007.

In 2005, Stevens designed the permanent installation of the Light & Optics Gallery at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum in Michigan. The exhibition includes over a dozen interactives and countless effects in a very unique gallery environment.

Stevens' recent soundwork, based on field recordings, studio experiments, and electronic synthesis, sequenced on computer, has been collected on four self-published CDs, and can be found on dozens of independent and experimental video soundtracks. His work was recently included on the Mitten [State] Transmissions compilation.

Stevens and partner, Leslie Raymond, are multimedia collaborators, Potter-Belmar Labs, creating installations as well as experimental video series and shorts that have screened at festivals around the world. Their six-part "Settings" series recently won first prize at the Orilla'06 festival in Santa Fe, Argentina. Their latest single-channel work premiered at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival in Switzerland last October. They call their medium "Improvised Cinema," and performances are an engrossing mix of sampled and original media, and often audience participatory.