A few years later back in New York, she met up with Benton Bainbridge and was invited to join the 77Hz video performance group initiated by Bainbridge and other founding members Philip R. Bonner, Jonathan Giles, Eric Schefter and Michael Schell . 77Hz had been performing live with video and music since 1991 when Nancy joined up two years later. From early in his life he worked in a variety of media including Super 8 films, live performances in the high school gym, electronics, and video. He considers himself a product of the Children's Television Workshop and carries a certain fun-loving sensibility from that time of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. From an early age, he viewed media as something that could be played like an instrument.
Art is most exciting when it is something collaborative.
And this collaborating process leads you into realms you would not go into on your own. The other thing I learned from these very youthful experiments in the countryside, is that the process of making art, makes it possible to play media like making music. In many ways The Poool and other projects of Benton's work this way. After getting involved with video using the porta pack at his high school, he went on to study film and video at New York University , where he would often invite people into the editing room to get an immediate reaction to some work he'd just put together. He was very interested in that kind of social interaction and it was part of what led him on to investigate the use of video in live performance.