Potter-Belmar Labs (Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens)
A Gametic Ontology of Crows
June 17–August 5, 2000
Ann Arbor based artists, Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens teamed together to form an ersatz research laboratory under the moniker of “Potter-Belmar Labs”, the artists (researchers) undertook a study of the “behavioural patterns of crows”; the results of their “research” was then translated into a series of instructional informational stations located throughout the gallery. As in a handson museum, the gallery visitor was invited to interact directly with the witty museological displays. A Gametic Ontology of Crows included a multi-media installation which combined the mediums of video, sound and found artifact through nine various shaped and sized boxes containing mechanisms for listening, viewing and/or interacting.
