RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON

Currently based out of Chicago, Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a multimedia artist and filmmaker 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. 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"

Contents

Filmography-

External links

Filmography-

The Philosopher's Stone - 2007

Traces - 2007

Chronicle - 2006

Cornerstone - 2006

Secrets - 2006

redlight - 2006

Colorform - 2006

Elevated - 2006

Plexus Illuminata - 2005

YHVH - 2005

Reliquary of Light (for Mr Boyd Lynn) - 2004

violetsummer - 2004

Resistance - 2004

The Three Stigmata of Marshall McLuhan - 2003

Cloud of Unknowing - 2003

Fireflies - 2003

Daath - 2002

ambientlight - 2002

A Map of the City - 2001

Six Ways Sideways - 2001

Unfolding Urban Algorithms - 2001

The Koan of Sisyphus - 2001

Tiny Inconsistencies - 2001

Les Fantomes de Lumiere - 2000

staticerosion - 1999

Sprayed On In Light - 1997

External links

★ The most accurate current filmography

★ IMDB Filmography (incomplete)

★ review of Chronicle feature

★ Descriptions of some of Harmon's films

★ FilmThreat review of Filmworks collection by David Finkelstein

★ official Myspace page.