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B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance

B2 Creative Residency Applications are open for the 2023-2024 season!

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Our Purpose


The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance embraces convivial and interdisciplinary experimentation that co-mingles art, technology, media, science, performance, radical creativity and [insert your practice here]. Located on basement level 2 of the Roser ATLAS Center, the B2 community researches and practices intellectual/creative risk-taking, form-bending, art-making, community building and social engagement. Facilities include the Black Box Experimental Studio and four studio labs equipped with some of the very latest media production and performance technologies. Part of the ATLAS Institute, B2 encourages collaborations, methodologies, and productions that traverse borders and disciplines and build/unbuild the unimagined/re-imagined.

 

Events

Spring 2023 Creative Residencies

old film of two people working on a telescope in an observatory

"CLIMAX" by Hanna Rose Shell


April 3 - April 8

a portrait of Ben Morris

"Colorado Sky" by Ben Morris


January 8 - January 13

A musical composition telling the story of gray wolves in Colorado

narahin sprawled on the floor in a dark room face down with arms wrapped under her legs

Naharin Shech's Creative Residency


January 23 - January 28

a white line drawing of traditional drums

La Mamá de mi Mamá


January 15 - January 21

two dancers pushing into each other on all fours

it's the love in between


February 24 - March 4

person reading long hanging scrolls of documents on display

"Through the Lens of the Law" by Sandra Ristovska


February 13 - February 19

a shiny metallic amber colored arm band

Sasha de Koninck's Creative Residency


February 13 - February 18

brad dancing in the foreground with two dancers dressed like birds in the back

"parrotfish" by Brad Gallagher


May 1 - May 12

line drawing of speakers stacked on each other

Sonic Summit 2023


March 6 - March 11

    

 

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In the news

The eyes of an Afro American person peering from behind a black hole.

B2 Creative Residency: Walk in a magical Afrolandscape

The community is invited to take a walk through Soulé Déesse's magical Afrolandscape, “Hermafrodek: A Suspension of Identity." This interactive exhibit utilizes the highly specialized equipment available in B2, incorporating motion capture, projection mapping and Ambisonic sound technology to create an endlessly shifting soundspace which engages and captivates visitors. Read more
Sean Winters

New summer classes empower performance community to use cutting-edge technologies

After rebounding from a major flood with vibrant new leadership and a new toolbox of performance technologies, the ATLAS Institute’s B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance now offers more varied and interesting opportunities to artists, engineers, creative technologists and performers than ever before. Read more
dancer ondine geary on concrete floor with shoulder and head on ground and feet in air with green sofa behind

Meet Ondine Geary | Dancer + Managing Director, ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance

A Q&A with Ondine Geary by Shoutout Colorado. "I make dances that are scrappy, unruly and resourceful. They slip themselves into the crevices between genres and insist on using whatever was lost down there–chicken bones, loose wires, half-retrieved memories." Read more
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