Superpose

Live visuals performance by Beatrice Babin, Yaron Maïm, Cate Hops, 2025.

Project Description

Using 3D, AI, and glitchy images from analogue video synthesizers, we ask: How can we build a memory archive for the future, and how do fixed forms shift through play? Our playground is a modular grid where analogue and digital processes meet, integrating diverse inputs, still and moving, dry and sensual, past and future. In a joint live performance mapped onto the hosting architecture, we layer image sequences and memory fragments into shifting patterns. The audience navigates a space where images feel familiar and strange at once, meaning emerging only in the act of viewing. With two VJ stations and a soundscape, Superpose (Beatrice Babin & Yaron Maïm) mix loops from Super 8mm, hand-painted 16mm, 3D, AI, watercolors, and a drawing machine.

Duration: 1.5 hour

Bios

Beatrice Babin aka BeBab (she / her) is a visual artist, VJ, film editor and professor of film editing who lives in Berlin. Her work centres on dreams of a future that are sometimes already the past.
She attempts to explore the boundary between memory and invention using various audio-visual media. She mixes analogue film material and digital images with analogue modules and digital programs. Camera feedback records the real space and mirrors it. Her audio-visual installations and projections have been shown at the Sfora Art Festival in Poland, the Pandora Gallery in Berlin and the Japanisches Palais in Dresden, among others. In Berlin she is part of the VJ collective Trial-And-Theresa and the FCD / Flinta Club Deck. She often works together with the musicians Mila Chiral and Cate Hops.

Berlin-based and Swiss-French, Yaron Maïm is a media artist, performer, and creative technologist working at the intersection of material practices, procedural techniques, and human–machine collaboration. With dual Master’s degrees in Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT Berlin) and Critical Curatorial Cybermedia (HEAD Geneva), their experimental work engages systems-based play to challenge fixed forms and open new ways of seeing. Yaron has exhibited, led workshops, and collaborated internationally, including with the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig, Technische Universität Berlin, and companies such as Christoph Winkler and Angélica Liddell. Their ongoing research asks: How do fixed forms and ideas shift through playful systems of making? More info: www.yaronmaim.art

Cate Hops is a DJ, performer, curator, radio host, and academic researcher in the field of sound system epistemologies and visual anthropology. In her live performances, she creates layers of feedback loops and sound ambiance through the use of objects, hacked toys, radio frequencies, and effected voice. Her sound resembles a bass-heavy and sometimes harsh noise that is situated between improvisation and storytelling. Cate Hops performs solo and in several projects, such as Ruido Polimnix with Lun Ario or KYOOT with Fra Zedde, as well as in occasional duos with JD Zazie, Munsha or Paolo Possidente, among others.

Tech Rider

A. Venue provides- 3 tables (approx. 1 × 1.5 m)
- sound system
- 2–4 projectors (depending on space)
- 3 × power distributors (5 sockets each)
- Power supply at each tableTable 1 – Musician
- 2 × XLR
- 2 mic stands
- PowerTable 2 – Visual 1
- Power
- HDMITable 3 – Visual 2
- Power
- HDMIB. Artists bring- Sound mixer + musician devices
- 1 PC tower + monitor + keyboard
- 2 laptops (1 for Resolume Arena)
- Analog video synthesizers
- Glitch module + tiny camera (feedback)
- 1 additional feedback camera
- HDMI cables + analog/HDMI convertersProjectors we can bring (may not be bright enough for Mahalla)
- Epson EB-G5200, 4200 lumen, 1280×800 (2 lenses)
- Optoma W306st, 3400 lumen, 1280×800 (wide angle)
- Acer P5307WB, 4000 lumen, 1280×800