"Synthesizer Petting Zoo" Fuller Moon Arts Festival 2022, Warwick NY. Group Instrument made up of multiple analogue synthesizers that participants could manipulate as they pleased.
"Conversation Occupied" Carrefour Exhibition at RISD 2013. Torino:Margolis uses invasive electronics, biomedical tools, and performance art to explore mind/body problems at the core of neuroscience and philosophy.
This performance uses neuromuscular stimulation which allows the audience to take over gestures during the performers’ conversation by forcing muscle contraction in their arms. The audience controlled gestures then begin to influence the conversation itself.
Neuromuscular Actuators. Allows movement of a body to be controlled remotely by the audience. Made by Benjamin Margolis and Jenny Torino.
Action Potential: Interact- Bent Festival 2010, NY. A sonic exploration of volitional and non-volitional movement through electromyography and analogue synthesizer.
Action Potential- SUNY Stony Brook, NY, 2010. Sonically demonstrated volitional and non-volitional movement through electromyography and computer generated sound.
Consume- Exit Art Gallery, NY, 2007. A simple exercise exploring the mechanism for what triggers consumption using neuromuscular sequencer and food.
