Benton C Bainbridge (born January 22, 1966) is an American artist known for new media art including single channel video, interactive artworks, immersive installations and live visual performances with custom digital, analog and optical systems of his own design.

[11][12] He has shown across five continents, collaborating with artists including the Beastie Boys, Kaki King, Pauline Oliveros,[13][14] V. Owen Bush,[15] Abigail Child,[16] Nick Didkovsky, Bobby Previte,[17][18] Jin Hi Kim,[19] Dream Theater,[20] Barbara Held,[21] Lonnie Holley and Tonstartssbandht,[22] among many others.

Bainbridge has shown his work in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art,[23] Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center,[24] Madison Square Garden,[25] The Kitchen (NYC),[26] EMPAC (Troy, NY),[27] the American Museum of Natural History, SFMOMA (San Francisco),[28][29] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Dallas Video Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Eyebeam,[30] Mercat des les Flors (Barcelona), LUX2006 (Sevilla), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Test-Portal (Amsterdam),[31] Sonic Light (Amsterdam),[32] Wien Modern (Vienna),[33] Inventionen (Berlin), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires),[34] CELCIT (Managua), Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011, Korean Festival (Seoul), Good Vibrations (Australia), and MTV Networks (global).

Later, Bainbridge's family moved to the exurbs of Erie, Pennsylvania where he met and began making drawings, plastic sculptures and food art with Philp R. Bonner.

[37] As part of this residency, Bainbridge began his first live video performance experiments with collaborators Philip R. "Bulk Foodveyor" Bonner, Jonathan "Naval Cassidy" Giles, Chad Strohmayer and Andrew Koontz.

[38][39] These early experiments convinced Bainbridge that video art can be made much as music: in real time, in collaboration, in public, via the free manipulation of all the tools of the medium.

Bainbridge co-designed multichannel, realtime video for two Beastie Boys' global tours and TV appearances including nearly all of MTV Networks' channels on four continents.