http://www.benton-c.com * http://www.glowingpictures.com
Benton-C Bainbridge is an artist based in The Bronx and Nashville working with video as a painterly and performable medium. Benton-C’s media art is made with custom systems of his own design. Bainbridge has presented video as immersive environments and live compositions across 5 continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world.
Career highlights include the best-attended ever Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris performance with live media ensemble The Poool http://www.archive.org/details/ThePoooliswarmDoc , video design for 2 Beastie Boys world tours and numerous special appearances http://vimeo.com/2715455 and analog video synth FX for TV On The Radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrTOQ18yzU .
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), 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).
Bainbridge co-founded the live video ensembles NNeng, The Poool, 77 Hz, Lord Knows Compost, and Stackable Thumb to compose and improvise cinema. Benton-C has collaborated with Abigail Child, Bill Etra, Jin Hi Kim, 99 Hooker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Johnny deKam, and Pauline Oliveros amongst hundreds of other artists and performers. Bainbridge co-founded Glowing Pictures, LLC with V Owen Bush to make video for screens, stages and other social environments.
In 2011, Benton-C Bainbridge and choreographer/dancer Brooke Broussard are exploring visuals made by bodies and extended with technology in the “Infinite Light” project. In Xi’an, Infinite Light shows giant water projections at the International Horticultural Expo 2011 through October 22, 2011. Glowing Pictures continues the fourth season of One Step Beyond at American Museum of Natural History, at which they are the resident visual designers and visualists.