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Glowing Pictures draws upon 50 years of collective experience creating visions and experiences in New York and around the world . We work with a wide range of creative professionals and consultants on projects that range from 1 to 150 people. We collaborate with designers, artists, scientists, engineers, architects, performing artists, chefs, producers and storytellers.

Benton-C Bainbridge

Benton-C Bainbridge makes movies with custom digital, analog and optical systems of his own design. He is a live video pioneer, mixing visuals across 5 continents. His work appears in site-specific installations, live events, concerts, giant screen, digital planetaria, Broadcast TV, multimedia operas and the web. Benton-C has collaborated with hundreds of musicians, visual and performing artists. Benton-C Bainbridge co-founded Glowing Pictures in 2004 with V Owen Bush to create digital experiences and to tell stories with motion pictures.

As a teen, Benton discovered "Expanded Cinema" and staged collaborative multimedia shows at his high school and local art spaces. Bainbridge moved to New York for Undergraduate Film/TV studies at NYU and threw himself into the NYC arts scene, screening his early videos at Danceteria, The Gas Station and Museum of Modern Art. Audiovisual jams at his first residency at the Experimental Television Center convinced Benton-C that cinema can be like music: a real-time collaborative art. Over the next several years, Bainbridge co-founded several live electronic cinema groups. One collective, The Poool, presented "(is warm)" at the Whitney Museum/Altria to its largest audience ever. As UnityGain's resident VJ, Benton-C designed video networks as systems for realtime visual battles and worked with dozens of musicians and visual artists.

Benton-C co-designed multichannel, realtime video for two Beastie Boys' global tours and TV appearances including nearly all of MTV Networks' channels on four continents. For the Beasties' "The Mix Up" tour, Bainbridge's video designs used RGB LED technology to play visuals on Spike Brant's (Performance Environment Design Group) giant video mobile. For Vh1, CMT and other networks, Benton-C designed and performed video for numerous live televised performances. Bainbridge's canvases are often large-scale displays - including LEDs, giant projections, and domes. He was a contributing artist to the American Museum of Natural History's SonicVision dome show. Bainbridge currently produces light and video art for the American Museum's One Step Beyond monthly party, now in it's fifth year. The Village Voice proclaimed "One Step Beyond literally has you on another planet with the spectacular light show".

Benton-C Bainbridge is an early adopter, exploring new fields and techniques often before they've been named. Benton-C shared a Bessie Award with Caspar Stracke for the projection designs for DanceKumikoKimoto's "memoryscan". Bainbridge performed projection mapped visuals in sync with fireworks on a concrete under-structure at EMPAC 360. Bainbridge popularized the 'art-Mag' technique, using realtime image processing to turn conventional i-Mag into graphically arresting stage visuals as backdrops for dozens of popular artists.

Yet, Bainbridge is a passionate advocate, restorer and user of old-school technology. Benton-C has used the early '70's Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer to make unique FX for TV On The Radio's "Staring At The Sun," "Molecules to the MAX!" and recent dance media spectacles with choreographer Brooke Broussard in China.

Bainbridge also curates, teaches and advises on video art and tech. For Lincoln Center's New York Video Festival, Benton-C co-curated Synaesthesiologists, a festival of dozens of shorts in a feature-length overview of the global audiovisuals scene. At UAMA high school in Brooklyn, Bainbridge started the first VJ class in the U.S. public education system, going on to teach students ranging from pre-teen to post-graduate as Eyebeam Art & Technology Center's inaugural Education Fellow.

Bainbridge is an international presence, frequently collaborating with Martin Bauer and Minou Maguna in Argentina and presenting work in Korea, Holland, France, Nicaragua, Canada, Russia, Japan, Australia and many other countries. Recently Bainbridge has been collaborating with choreographer Brooke Broussard to present the Infinite Light dance media collaborative in Xi'an, China, with the Water Stage show at the 2011 Horticultural Expo and an upcoming dance, DJ, video and light party at Da Ming Palace called "Surpass 2011."

 

V Owen Bush

V Owen Bush is a designer, producer, and filmmaker who uses immersion and participation to create transformative social experiences. His works have been seen worldwide in venues such as digital planetariums, live concerts and events, IMAX3D, broadcast television, mobile devices, and the web.

V was born in Quebec, Canada. He was named "Vishwanath" upon his birth by Neem Karoli Baba, a renowned hindu sage. In 1995 V graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film and Television. As a producer at the innovative Pseudo Programs Inc., he created some of the first net-casts and viral videos of the early web. Pseudo established itself as the creative icon of New York's Silicon Alley with a series of live events and social experiments that either V produced or collaborated on. In 1997 V left Pseudo to help launch AMP on MTV, a TV series of electronic music videos with over two million weekly viewers. AMP introduced much of the USA and global audiences to electro-culture, it was hailed by the New York Times as "the coolest show on television". As AMP's associate producer, V was responsible for much of AMP's programming and packaging.

V was a principal player in the Immersionist art movement which bridged the NY art boom of the 80's to the dot-com boom of the 90's. V participated in, designed and produced many multi sensorial pop-up events largely in Williamsburg Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan. Throughout this period V collaborated with hundreds of artists and entertainers in groups such as Vapor Action, Floating Point Unit, Soundlab, Ongolia, Ovni, Fakeshop, Unity Gain, and Artificial TV. As a live video artist, V has toured with musicians, DJ's and dance/theatre across the US, Europe, and Latin America. V was a lead producer of the legendary QUIET! Event, where over 100 people lived, ate, and slept together under constant video surveillance for one month before new years day 2000. V and his work on the QUIET! event are portrayed in the film, "We Live in Public", the winner of 2009 Sundance grand jury prize for best documentary.

V developed broadcast television promos for NBC, MTV, VH1, PBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Discovery, History Channel, NY1, and others as a freelance motion-designer. In 2001, V helped create the curriculum for the world's first master's degree in broadcast design as an adjunct professor at Parson's School of Design. V was the the Editor and Composite Artist of "Sonic-Vision", the full-dome visual music show developed for New York's Hayden Planetarium with a soundtrack mixed by Moby. For over eight years, Sonic-Vision has been a cultural staple and tourist attraction in New York and many other cities around the world.

Since 2003, V has directed the Molecularium Project, realizing the vision of 3 executive scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the co-writer and director of "Molecularium", a digital planetarium show funded by the National Science Foundation. "Molecularium" reinvents the dome venue, using character-based animation to take audiences into the nano-scale world of atoms and molecules. In September 2009, "Molecules to the MAX! 3D" opened for IMAX3D, IMAX Dome, and Giant-Screen film theaters. V is the director and co-writer of this animated large-format feature, and the president of it's production company, Nanotoon Entertainment. V managed a team of over 150 skilled professionals, scientists, engineers and students in an unprecedented collaboration between creatives and educators. "Molecules" and "Molecularium" have been versioned in seven languages and are in growing distribution to theaters, planetariums and museums worldwide. Currently V is the co-producer, co-writer and director of "Nanospace" a virtual theme park of atoms and molecules, that launches in 2011 as a online hub for the Molecularium Project. Nanospace ignites learning in young minds through video-games, interactive activities, and short movies.

In 2010 V produced, directed and edited "Love Serve Remember", a collaboration with Ram Dass. The short film is a 40th anniversary companion piece to Ram Dass' spiritual classic "Be Here Now". The film is distributed by Harper Collins Publishers in a trans-media strategy for the iPad and iPhone.

V is a co-founder and principal in Glowing Pictures, a company whose visual work includes televised concerts, music videos, commercials, multimedia operas, and immersive visual environments. Glowing Pictures' clients include Vh1, MySpace, the Beastie Boys, the Creator's Project, Eyebeam, Lincoln Center, and many others. Glowing Pictures are the resident visual designers of "One Step Beyond", a monthly live event at the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of the Universe that will enter it's fifth year of largely sold-out shows in 2011.

V lives in Troy NY, with his wife Jasmine and his daughter Dahlia.

 

 

photo credits: Benton-C by Hung Tung Kuo, Owen by Jasmine Ceniceros