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TRIGGERS by Benton-C and Aaron Cantor

Wood, plexiglas, felt, wire, solder, programmable switch matrix board, lighted pushbuttons, LEDs,
power supply, inkjet prints, computer, software, hard drive, DV-analog A/V decoder, A/V system,
assorted cables, 4.5 hours analog synthesized, digitally delivered A/V media.

Media/concept: Benton-C Bainbridge
Sculpture: Aaron Cantor
Spatialistics: the hausofouch
Software: Vidvox (Johnny deKam/Russell Clarke)
Electronics: James Rattazzi


TRIGGERS is an interactive sculpture that contains 5 dozen videos performed live-to-tape using analog synthesizers fed through hardware. Using these techniques pioneered by video art's first generation of artist/engineers, sound and image are made from the same signal to make abstract audiovisual "songs." "Video Jukebox" style, the viewer makes a "playlist" by pressing buttons with thumbnails of the 60 vids.

TRIGGERS premiered at nyc's The Kitchen gallery in December, 2000 and has since been shown at Cambridge, MA's Art Interactive gallery as part of ORIGINS at Boston Cyberarts Fest and at Chashama entertaining grounded tourists in Times Square during the chaos of September 11, 2001.

In the depths of a nasty New York winter, I spent January and February 2000 off the icy
streets, stuck at home with a broken foot. Thankfully, I had just finished piecing together a
crude system for home audiovisual synthesis . . . so lonely but not bored I used my solitary
confinement to make video songs for the people in my life I was missing, my inspirations.
~benton-c







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