benton-c bainbridge

Benton-C Bainbridge is a video artist using custom digital, analog and optical systems to make movies, installations and live visual performances.

Bainbridge has shown and performed video on five continents in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, American Museum of the Moving Image, The Kitchen (NYC), EMPAC (Troy, NY), the American Museum of Natural History, SFMoMA (San Francisco), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Dallas Video Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mercat des les Flors (Barcelona), LUX2006 (Sevilla), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), CELCIT (Managua), Korean Festival (Seoul), Good Vibrations (Australia), MTV Networks and Hotwired (global).

Inspired as a teenager by early audiovisual collectives, Benton-C often works collaboratively. Bainbridge co-founded the live video ensembles NNeng, The Poool, 77 Hz, and - as "Valued Cu$tomer" - Lord Knows Compost and Stackable Thumb. As UnityGain's resident (1998-2002) VJ Benton-C designed video networks as systems for realtime visual 'battles'. Bainbridge has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Joan La Barbara, Abigail Child, Yasunao Tone, Hoppy Kamiyama, Johnny deKam, Ross Goldstein, Venetian Snares and Jin Hi Kim amongst scores of other artists and performers. His video has been released on numerous tapes and DVDs.

Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is performing video (and video-as-lighting) with Bobby Previte as "Dialed In". Bainbridge's ongoing collaboration with Minou Maguna continues with the video and staging design for John King's new opera "Galileo Galilei" and installations/performances of the expanded documentary "Brother Islands". With Glowing Pictures, Bainbridge is co-producing the visuals for One Step Beyond, a monthly event at American Museum of Natural History that The New Yorker calls 'New York's Best Museum Party'.