+ Raymond Salvatore Harmon

 With a filmography extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerilla media actions. Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1974 to a middle class background Raymond Salvatore Harmon has lived widely throughout the US (New York - NY, Savannah - GA, Ann Arbor, Louisville - KY, Eugene - OR, among many other locations).

Over the course of the past ten years Harmon has been developing and evolving the theoretical and practical applications of non object orient art. Utilizing new media, web based content and interactive architectures in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web social engineering propaganda Harmon's work has carved out an over arching form of new media insurgency.

Harmon's films often contain layered subliminal content, the source of this content is often derived from occult and mystical texts. Utilizing texts such as the Gates of Light (an early work of Hebraic mysticism, kabbalah) and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies, Harmon's occult based films work as advanced meditative tools for use in occult rituals and the expansion of the conscious mind.

Often compared to Stan Brakhage, Harmon's use of abstract imagery is more directly influenced by the works of Harry Smith (both as a filmmaker and archivist) and Nam June Paik. Much of the philosophical discourse concerning the alchemical/mystical influences in Harmon's occult filmworks YHVH, Tree of Knowledge/Tree of Life, Elementals) mentions the works of 17th century English author Thomas Vaughan and the anonymous mystical text "The Cloud of Unknowing" (wikipedia)
Descriptions of some of Harmon's films

Films that RSH has donated to Greylodge for torrent distribution:

• Elementals
• PLEXUS ILLUMINATA
• RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON
• TREE
• YHVHMENU

Transcendental Cinema: A treatise on the use of film as a tool of mystical understanding

Many thanks, Doc

++ RSH (via Rhizome)

Biography
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a Chicago based sound and film artist whose work spans the past century of technological cul de sacs. With a filmography extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerilla media actions.

Over the course of the past ten years Harmon has been developing and evolving the theoretical and practical applications of non object orient art. Utilizing new media, web based content and interactive architectures in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web community social engineering propaganda Harmon's work has carved out an over arching form of new media insurgency.

Never one to be pigeon holed Harmon continues to broaden the range and depth of his work. Performing regularly as an improvisational musician on Chicago's legendary experimental music scene along side musicians like Rob Mazurek , Jeb Bishop, Frank Rosaly, Karl Seigfried, Aram Shelton, Alan Licht (to name just a handful). His recent group show at Heaven Gallery with Rob Mazurek (prints and installation) and New York guitarist Alan Licht (video installation) presenting a nine channel sound installation (Isolated Instances) received phenomenal critical reviews.

Look forward to a new film exploring Harmon's continual contemplation of the theoretical godhead (YHVH) out on DVD in the summer of 2005. As well as a simultaneous tour with new film and video performance pieces of southern Europe.

www.raymondharmon.com

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