“BCB in a Suitcase” at LEAF

Playlist of document videos from BCB in a Suitcase

Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival presents audiovisual performances by Benton C Bainbridge and other artists.

Bainbridge premieres his new Video Synth Self-Portrait project, using prototype modules from Experimental Television Center’s legendary designer Dave Jones to radically transform his electronic likeness. BCB in a Suitcase rethinks the selfie as realtime media performance art.

On Saturday, April 2nd, Benton C Bainbridge, who teaches in the Computer Art MFA program at the School of Visual Art in New York, will be giving a brief talk covering the history of video performance, his own artistic practice, and the technology used in his and similar performances. The talk will begin at 10am at the CMF & CMA and is free and open to the public.

LEAF event info

Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival [LEAF] is a showcase of experimental musical forms that bridge the classical music world with contemporary electronic and new media arts, including sound and visual components combined in new and novel ways. Sometimes called “visual music”, or “live audiovisual performance” or even “expanded cinema”, the one-night only event brings together international level artists from both coasts with artists from Denver/Lafayette to challenge the senses and explore the potential for sound and image in concert for a live audience.The event starts at 7pm on Friday April 1st, 2016 and will be held in Founders Hall at the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Rd. in Lafayette, CO. The event is open to the public, with a 21+ cash bar available. Tickets are Pay What You Decide – the festival is free to attend and you may donate what you choose.Performing Artists:Benton C Bainbridge (NYC)
Live analog video/modular synthesis

Andrew Blanton (San Jose/Denver)
Marimba/iPad/live generative 3D

Orbiting Olympia (Lafayette)
Classical voice and analog synthesis
Eve Orenstein and Sean Patrick Faling

Synth_Drone Collective (Denver)
Ambient electronics
kuxaan-sum, bios+a+ic, Wes Milholen, Mark Mosher, and Sean Patrick Faling

LEAF is sponsored by Arts Lafayette, a 501c(3) organization (http://www.artslafayette.org/), The Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts (http://www.comusic.org/), and The School for Visual Arts in New York (http://www.sva.edu/).