B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance
B2 is a research and creative production center that incubates radical work in immersive, spatial, and intermedia technologies. We exist to concentrate the space, tools, and expertise this work demands, and to put them within reach of artists and researchers from the University of Colorado and beyond.
The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance occupies the lowest level of the Roser ATLAS Center: a two-story black box studio and a series of connected production labs. Part of the ATLAS Institute, B2 encourages experiments, collaborations, and productions that traverse disciplines to produce new knowledge and experiences. B2 is built around a community of designers, artists, researchers, and technicians who work alongside each other, sharing methods and expertise across diverse fields.
B2 is a 2,700-square-foot, two-story black box studio surrounded by a series of connected production labs, a control room, and a community room, all networked end-to-end for video and audio. Motion capture, 44-channel spatial audio, 270° projection mapping and intelligent lighting run through the Black Box and can be driven together in real time.
Erin Espelie: Timekeepers / 10/5–10/9
Public Screening: 10/9, 2–5 PM
Erin Espelie is a filmmaker, researcher, and associate professor in Cinema Studies & Critical Media Practices at CU Boulder. Her project explores the intersection of ecology, cinema, and material science through experimental moving-image arts and large-scale projection, investigating environmental timelines and non-human perspectives within the immersive black box environment.
Jadd Tank: P.O.V. / 10/26–1/30
Public Performance 1/30, 6:30–8:00 PM
Jadd Tank is a Lebanese-American choreographer, creative producer, and MFA candidate in Dance at CU Boulder. His residency project, P.O.V., investigates how perception and truth are mediated by technology, using live movement, real-time camera feeds, spatial audio, and interactive lighting to destabilize the traditional audience perspective.
Daniel Ethridge: Resonant Fields: Interactive Spatial Acoustics / 11/9
Daniel Ethridge is a creative researcher, media artist, and music technologist. His project centers on interactive spatial audio and physical computing, utilizing B2’s ambisonic sound array to prototype immersive sonic environments where user movement directly translates into spatialized acoustic feedback.
John Gunther: Emergent Soundscapes: Electroacoustic Jazz & Spatial Media / 11/16
John Gunther is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and Director of the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at CU Boulder. His residency explores electroacoustic improvisation and spatial audio, developing interactive media systems that bridge real-time jazz performance with multi-channel audio synthesis and motion-reactive visual processing.
Orit Peleg: Swarm Intelligence: Biological Signals in Physical Space / 11/30
Orit Peleg is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder. Her project translates computational models of biological collective behavior (such as firefly flashing and insect swarms) into immersive, data-driven light and sound installations that bring complex physical and biological systems into a physical, spatial experience.
