bit_girl
Benja Thompson
A lone figure rises from a blue tarp, coiled in cables spilling out from a totemic server rack. bit_girl chronicles the escape patterns of Ada, a girl born from glitch, who weaves a web of live feedback loops generated by linked video systems.
Created by Benja Thompson
Performed with Akane Little, Alyxandra Ciale, and Zee Baird-Appleton
Original Music by Noah Thompson
Image by Benja Thompson
Find them: @leaf.mold
bit_girl gnashes at the root of wetware through a cyberfeminist expanded cinema performance, exploring glitched gender and digital miasma with trickster urgency. Unfolding envelopes of granular synthesis, analog electronic scores, and vocal feedback shake the air. Through signal path alchemy, multichannel video projections open up a bag of stars wherein pixels become bees become souls. Inside the computerized theater space, the movement technique of LUDUS, in the lineage of butoh, transfuse physical, digital, and mythic tellings of maternal madness. They are building a computer around the world, and they must fail.
CW: This show contains nudity, needles, noise.
Runtime: 60 min