My Autumn shows are falling into place! Summer vacation is over: I’m back to work with my collaborators making art for the new season.

MoMA PopRally presents:
Beauteous
at Andrew Freedman Home
Bronx, NY
September 7, 2019

Garden festivities 6:00 PM, performance 8:00 PM, rooftop DJs 10:00 PM
$10 advance / $15 door
LIMITED TICKETS

Exhibition on view through September 27!

Beauteous is a site-specific, immersive theatrical takeover of the halls of Andrew Freedman Home. My media art will be featured, including video sculptures, interactive installations and AV performance.

Beauteous is a dystopic imagining of our near future that explores issues around perception, community branding, and the dynamics of hype. This post-apocalyptic science fiction tale incorporates narratives of LGBTQ subculture and hip-hop to extrapolate the cultural evolution of the Bronx into a probable future where we don’t change our present headlong dash to disaster. Guests will experience theatrical vignettes, musical performances, and art installations set amidst the faded glamor of a Gilded Age mansion located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

The evening will commence with food and music in the garden and culminate on the mansion’s rooftop with a dance party hosted by Pauli Cakes & DJ She Marley Marl, featuring DJ sets by Bronx natives. Dance the night away to the sounds of BRUJAS and friends with DaDa Coz and gnarianna, DJ Red Alert, and Grandmaster Caz.

THE BEAUTEOUS CAST

Craig muMs Grant, Andre Royo, Mike Carlsen, Morgan McGuire, Toni Ann DeNoble, Jennie West, Tamara Williams, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Tasha Dougé, Equiano Mosieri, D-Black, Tony Parent

CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS

Sho Konishi, Veronica Lee, Hana Holquist, TJacob Hooker, Xiang Gu, Alexandra Riddle, Videmus Omnia, Subin Hahn, Ami Park, Yiwei Wu, Katya Akuma, Lenny Vuitton

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Katya Akuma, Elia Alba ,Gabe Aiello, Benton C Bainbridge, David Cavaliero, Abigail Deville, Tasha Dougé, Xavier Figueroa, Vanessa German, Trokon Nagbe, Niyi Olagunju, Jennie West, Natalie Collette Wood, Meguru Yamaguchi, 

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Benton C Bainbridge, Joe Blens, Kelly LUZE Covington, Alice Mizrachi, Robert Owusu III, Jess Valoris

ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY

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Barbara Held / Benton C Bainbridge: Observatory / Lisa Joy
in El giro notacional
at MUSAC: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
León, Spain
Through September 15

My media artwork collaborative installation with Barbara Held has been generating ever-changing light drawings and sound all year long, but all good things must move along to the next show. There’s just a few weeks left to catch this wide ranging group exhibition presenting experimental scores.

OPTOSONIC ECHOES
August 15–October 31, 2019
Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill, NY

My sound art is part of an outdoor installation presented by OptoSonic Tea and Corinne Erni.

Standing outside the Tate Modern, I recorded a monolog for this 8-channel continuous sound installation positioned at the exterior of the Parrish Museum’s north entrance.

Participating artists:
Benton C Bainbridge, Marcia Bassett, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Kit Fitzgerald, Andy Guhl, Shelley Hirsch, Chika Iijima, Chris Jordan (cj), Katherine Liberovskaya, LoVid, Laura Ortman, Ursula Scherrer, Michael J. Schumacher, Emma Souharce, Shane Weeks

Platform: OptoSonic Tea at The Parrish
September 27, 7-11 pm
$12 | Free for Members, Children, and Students

In late September, I’ll join 18 other artists to present an audiovisual installation/performance, dispersed amongst the galleries of the Museum.

VISUAL ARTISTS: Benton C Bainbridge, Bradley Eros, Andy Guhl, Kit Fitzgerald, Asi Föcker, CHiKA, Chris Jordan (cj), Katherine Liberovskaya, LoVid (Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkins), and Ursula Scherrer.
SOUND ARTISTS: Marcia Bassett, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Shelley Hirsch, Laura Ortman, Emma Souharce, Michael J. Schumacher, Keiko Uenishi, and Shane Weeks.

Good riddance, 2018! While dealing with family loss and America’s descent, I found solace in art. Here are my highlights from our low year:

TRIGGERS was selected by curator Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe for Sonic Arcade at Museum of Arts & Design, NYC

My 2018 exhibitions with Andrew Freedman Home’s Artist in Residence program included the IV Annual Afh AIR group show and Dak’art Biennale in Senegal. The year began and concluded with shows at Gene Kaufmann’s North of History 12-month pop-up gallery.

Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge, my latest collaborative, formed this Fall when Yelaine Rodriguez brought Melanie Gonzalez and myself together to explore the intersection of wearable, performance and media art. We joined Yelaine for her exhibitions portraying the Haitian loa at Wave Hill and Longwood Gallery in the Bronx; since then, our trio has been making video paintings in Singular Editions and time-based works in site-specific installations.

Many of us will remember 2018 as the year when Decentralized Art gained global attention, just as cryptocurrencies plummeted from 2017’s heights. I joined the conversations in Jessica Angel’s #ArtProject Decentralized, AOTB and Ethereal Summit and released many solo and collaborative media artworks with decentralized provenance, including Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge: Ezili Dantor presented by Andrew Freedman Home at Miami Art Week, Art | Basel.

Rue Bainbridge performed in NYC and London, including an unforgettable night in the abandoned Averard Hotel. Our duo kicks off 2019 with an audiovisual improvisation for the closing of Calder: Nonspace at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles on January 5. Seating is limited, free tickets here! photos: Christoph Trestler, Henri Kisielewski

Flutist / sound artist Barbara Held and I presented Pausa as a multi-channel AV installation and a real-time media performance at l’Auditori Barcelona for Sampler Series. In 2019, Bainbridge Held will contribute a generative video and music artwork to a 9 month long sound art exhibition at MUSAC in Leon, Spain.

In 2018, American Museum of Natural History concluded the 11th season of One Step Beyond. The series is now on hiatus. As the resident media artist of this late-night monthly event I curated, designed and co-created immersive visuals throughout the Hall of the Universe for all eleven years of #OneStepBeyond. Musical guests included Moby, Kanye West, Kid Sister, A-Trak, Scissor Sisters, Dirty Projectors, Freedom Party, Questlove, Chromeo, Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, DJ Khaled, Toro Y Moi, Felix Da Housecat, TOKiMONSTA, and Dan Deacon.

Bainbridge & collaborators video playlist: select 2018 media art

Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge media installation and performance
Wednesday 05 December, 6-8 PM
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos | 450 Grand Concourse, Room C-190, Bronx, NY 10451

Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge present a site-specific media art installation for the finissage of the group exhibition *Swing Forward While Swaying Back*

Maman Brigitte (portrayed by Gina Goico) will come alive in a projected environment of translucent fabrics. The performance is inspired by a quote by cultural theorist Stuart Hall which comments on a new Black culture created from The New World. Concentrated in Haitian and Dominican roots and traditions, this performance looks at Maman Brigitte, who guards spirits in transition from life to death.

Maman Brigitte is from an ongoing series which celebrates the loa in costume, dance and events. Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge make mixed media, installations, and performances at the intersection of wearable art, performance art, and media art. Conceptual design/sculpture by Yelaine Rodriguez, live video projection visuals by Melanie Gonzalez, and media design by Benton C Bainbridge.

*Swing Forward While Swaying Back*
Six Bronx artists (Alicia Grullon, Blanka Amezkua, Fran Ilich, Francheska Alcantara, Walter Cruz, Yelaine Rodriguez) envision alternate futures through collaborative installations that provocatively and poetically challenge their audiences. Each project simultaneously draws on rich and varied art, activist, and cultural histories to search for something beyond itself – whether in relation to economies of generosity and exchange, practical information about immigration rights, or complex conversations about cultural heritage. Curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley.

watch Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge: We Are Here Because You Were There at Longwood Gallery

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Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge in Art Decentralized at Art | Basel Miami Beach
Thursday, 06 December, 9 AM – 6 PM
Nikki Beach | 1 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge will premiere Ezili Dantor, a digital video portrait of the Haitian loa. Andrew Freedman Home Director Walter Puryear will present four works by AFH Artists in Residence (Bainbridge, as well as Natalie Collette Wood, Meguru Yamaguchi, Noté Peter George) and speak on the Digital Art & Collectibles Panel in this conference presented by Light Node Media for Miami Art Week.

watch Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Bainbridge: Ezili Dantor, 2018 [studio installation view]

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North of History Goes South
06 December – 22 December | Reception 22 December, 6-8 PM | Open 7 days a week, 10 AM – 6 PM
445 Columbus Av & 81st, New York, NY 10024

This group exhibition highlighting artists who have shown at North of History includes Andrew Freedman Home Artists in Residence Jennie West, Gabe Aiello, Cannon Hersey, Alice Mizrachi, Natalie Collette Wood, and Noté Peter George. Benton C Bainbridge premieres a new multi-channel video sculpture, Life-Size Allyssa Jill, and projects a series of video portraits.

watch Benton C Bainbridge: Life-Size Allyssa Jill (installation view)

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watch Gryphon Rue with Benton C Bainbridge: Google Portrait

Years in the making, Benton C Bainbridge‘s utterly bizarre video for Gryphon Rue‘s AI-phobic poem set to an electronic folk tune has been released by Tiger Sushi Records. Featuring Gryphon with Dean Wareham and Christine Sun Kim along with a children’s chorus, all fed through a labyrinthian system of old-school and newfangled image processing tools.

Rue Bainbridge at Averard Hotel (photo: Christoph Trestler)
Slate Projects presents Rue Bainbridge at Averard Hotel, London
19 October, 8 PM
Saw and Synths immersive AV performance in an abandoned hotel by Kensington Gardens

Bainbridge Held: PAUSA @ l’Auditori (foto by Adolf Alcañiz)
Flux Festival presents Benton C Bainbridge and Barbara Held at Antic Teatre, Barcelona
22 October, 9 PM
Live flute and video synth performance in Barcelona’s Old Town

Digital Buddha
Digital Buddha at K Now, Philadelphia: Jin Hi Kim with Gerry Hemingway,
25 October, 7 PM
Media art by Benton C Bainbridge

Sofy Yuditskaya with Benton C Bainbridge: Laser Portal (detail)
Then & Now: The Evolution of TraditionLab Studios, Cleveland
02 November, 6:30 PM
Dancer Ron’dhale Simpson is accompanied with video by Sofy Yuditskaya from our laser portals collaborations

Asian Sound Revolution at Detroit Institute of Arts
Asian Sound Revolution at Detroit Institute of Arts
04 November, 3 PM

Barbara Held & Benton C Bainbridge: Tearing Through, 2018 (details)
XXV Punto de Encuentro AMEE: Barbara Held + Miguel Álvarez-Fernández + Anticine de Javier Aguirre y Eduardo Polonio
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
16 November, 10 PM
Bainbridge Held: Tearing Through, 2018 premieres in screening of music and video artworks in Spain.

ONGOING:

Yelaine Rodriguez with Melanie Gonzalez and Benton C Bainbridge (details)
Yelaine Rodriguez with Gonzalez, Muñoz and Bainbridge at Wave Hill and Longwood Gallery, Bronx

Benton C Bainbridge: It is what you haven’t done that will torment you – Adrift, 2018
Digital Media – HD GIF anim, 2 seconds 4 frames
Singular Edition

Barbara Held and Benton C Bainbridge

Juan Naranjo Gallery
Casanova Street, 136-138
Barcelona, Spain B-3 08036
13 June – 06 July, 2018
Closing Reception: Friday, July 6, starting at 5 pm

Media art premiers and the return of Observatory / Lisa Joy.

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Fork the System: artHash & Singular Editions with Benton C Bainbridge
June 13, 2018, 7 PM
Starfish Mission
San Francisco
*Free entrance to come see my presentation*

I will show recent Singular Editions of digital media art and demo artHash.

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ONE STEP BEYOND with DJ Camilo, Riobamba, and DJ BETO; media design by Benton C Bainbridge/Intersection Arts
June 29, 2018, 9 PM – 1 AM
American Museum of Natural History

The ultimate #OneStepBeyond of Season 11! Get your tickets early – #OneStepBeyond usually sells out.

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Benton C Bainbridge: media art in Singular Editions with decentralized provenance
New work available this summer.