The CONVERGENCE underground afterhours is an opportunity for interaction between the independent film and cyberarts communities.

For over two decades Benton-C Bainbridge has pursued moviemaking as a realtime, performable art form, playing live audiovisuals in a multitude of group and solo contexts. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to capture music's human abstraction in moving images. Benton-C has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video worldwide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, stadiums, clubs, colleges and festivals. Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV.

www.benton-c.com

United States of Belt is Ross Goldstein. Since 1999 USofBelt has been travelling around America (mostly by car) making recordings of sounds (all kinds) and searching for cool things to take polaroid pictures of. Often these recordings are collaged and worked into compositions which are then released as albums. USofBelt likes to collaborate with other artists who are having fun. Fun is important. USofBelt is excited to be returning to its former home (the HUB) to play with the awesome Benton-C.

For more info contact: rogo (at) champrecords (dot) com

Antony Flackett is a video/sound/multimedia artist living and working in the Boston area. His videos have been shown throughout the world including New York, Spain, Australia, Italy and Sweden. As a musician Antony has performed, recorded, and released music under the name DJ Flack. He is also part of DuoTone, a hip-hop multimedia act with Jake Trussell. Antony and Jake co-host and curate a weekly DJ/multimedia residency called Beat Research at the Enormous Room club in Central Square. For this year's Cyberarts festival Antony will be demonstrating his "Interactive Musical Animations" which are inspired by the "visual music" of early abstract animators like Oskar Fischinger. To bring this conceptinto the 21st century, Antony's animations are triggered live to hip-hop beats. Every sound that you hear has a corresponding visual and is part of his plan to heighten the experience of electronic music performance and make it more visceral and immediate.

www.djflack.com | Beat Research

nkv4 creates images and sounds in a live performance environment. Combining original photography, animation, and sound design with VJ mix dynamics, nkv4 develops new realtime compositing tools and techniques to generate pictures and soundtracks that may range from abstract to narrative in any given performance situation. Musical elements and performance gestures are linked to animation cues and image manipulation with custom software. The nkv4 live crew is Ryan Gibson, Peter Johnson, and Jim Wennerberg. For this set the band will be joined by special guest Walter Wright.

www.nkv4.com

sosolimited will be performing a live remix of selected cinematic scenes, set to analog loops and beats. These films and their transcript will be manipulated in space and time in response to the live audio. sosolimited is an audiovisual performance crew composed of Timon Botez, Eric Gunther, Justin Manor, and John Rothenberg. They write custom software for the live transformation and manipulation of sound and image. They draw upon live video, television, and closed captioning and construct custom graphics set to an original score. sosolimited has performed at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria and a various clubs and lounge in New York and Boston. They are currently performers in residence at the Art Interactive in Cambridge. www.sosolimited.com

Sherman Walter Wright was born in Ottawa, ON, and raised by wild animals. He is a video artist; a member of the Artists League of Lowell, of the VideoSpace Collective and the BopAnts. He was once an unlicensed architect. He became a professor of film, video and computer graphics as well as a video animator, and software engineer. He is a co-founder of 911 Gallery, the first all-digital art gallery on the World Wide Web. One of the first video animators, he worked at Computer Image Corporation in the early 70’s. His tapes were shown regularly at the Kitchen, where he was an associate director. In 1973-76, as artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, NY, he pioneered video performance touring public access centers, colleges and galleries with the Paik/Abe video synthesizer. Wright developed his own performance video system, the Video Shredder, and uses it to mesmerize audiences wherever and whenever he can. He's getting quite good at it. His mission is to create a new music of sound, image and movement. He has performed throughout the east coast of the USA and Canada at art galleries and museums, schools and colleges, media centers, conferences and festivals. www.119gallery.org