BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE

For two decades Benton-C Bainbridge has pursued moviemaking as a realtime, performable artform, playing live audiovisuals in a multitude of group and solo contexts around the world. Using custom analog, digital and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to harness the transcendent, communicative power of music in moving images. Bainbridge co-founded the groups 77 Hz, The Poool, and NNeng to perform improvised and composed video live on stage. As resident "VJ" of UnityGain, New York City's itinerant 4D environment for realtime A/V performance, Benton-C has jammed with over 50 of NYC's best electronic musicians and vusicians including Koosil-ja Hwang, Abigail Child, David Weinstein, Jane Scarpantoni, 99 Hooker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Matthew Ostrowski, Fast Forward, amongst dozens of other artists and performers. Benton-C Bainbridge has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), Uplink Factory (Tokyo), American Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Transcinema (San Francisco), STEIM (Amsterdam), Metafort d'Aubervilliers (Paris), Fla/Bra (Miami), Dallas Video Festival, Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Vidarte (Mexico City), and Hotwired (World Wide Web) Currently, Bainbridge is performing in Europe and the Americas and co-designing realtime moviemaking systems.