About

SHORT BIO

L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and performer, exploring the interconnection between image, sound, space and non-linear narration.
She combines her love and skills for graphic design, fine arts, animation in her live visuals.

She performed in many set ups from underground raves, club nights to big festivals in UK and continental Europe, adding real-time visuals to mainly electronic music.

MEDIUM BIO

L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and VJ, exploring the interconnection between image, sound, and space. Using any surface as her canvas, from single and multi-screen set ups, projection mapping and immersive environments.

She creates her own content in 2D, 3D, generative, hand-drawn, motion graphics, video and each performance is a unique creation, blending organic, graphical, abstract, and figurative elements bringing the audience on a seamless visual journey.
She performed in many set ups from underground raves, club nights to big festivals in UK and Europe, adding real-time and audio-reactive visuals to mainly electronic music (lives and DJ sets).

LONG BIO
L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and VJ from Geneva, based in London, who started performing live visuals in while studying a master in Digital Arts in 2005 in Barcelona. She explores the interconnection between image, sound, space and non-linear narration. Using screens as her canvas, from single and multi-screen set ups, projection mapping and immersive environments.

Each performance is a unique creation, blending organic, graphical, abstract, and figurative elements bringing the audience on a seamless visual journey.
Her distinctive style fuses self-produced content crafted through analogue and digital techniques, including 2D, 3D, hand-drawn animations, motion graphics, generative visuals and video footage. She also uses analogue video synths in some sets.

Each performance is a unique creation, blending organic, graphical, abstract, and figurative elements bringing the audience on a seamless visual journey.
She crafted her distinctive style mixing analogue and digital techniques and creates her own content in 2D, 3D, generative, motion-graphics, hand-drawn animations and video.
She also uses analogue video synths for some sets.

She performed live in different set ups from underground raves and club nights to large-scale festivals across the UK and Europe, mixing real-time and audio-reactive visuals to mainly electronic music, from local to international DJs and live sets, in Glastonbury (UK), Boomtown (UK), Le Zoo/Usine (CH), Machina Bristronica (Bristol), Here at Outernet (London), Crux festival, Art Vision VJ contest (Moscow), Visual Brasil (ES), Genius Loci Weimar (DE) and many more.

Adding live visuals on the live sets of Surgeon, Mathew Johnson, Kai Campos and DJ sets of Gerd Janson, Goldie, Chaos in CBD, OK Williams, Âme b2b Røhåd, Amelie Lens, Egyptian Lover, Forest Drive West, Pearson Sound, Altern8, Antigone. SHXCXCHCXSH, and many more.

She also work as a VJ for artists tours (JHus, Omah Lay, 2024), big shows and club nights using provided content, in Drumsheds (Nov 24), Here at Outernet, E1 club (2023), for Partiboi69 (Printworks, 2022), Or:la (Sonar Festival, 2022).

She was one of the four visual artists to participate to Prada Extends, event curated by Richie Hawtin at the Tate, London, Nov 2021. And one of three visual artists featuring in Resident Advisor (RA), Art + Sound published in Oct 2021. Commissioned to create an audiovisual piece, added with interviews and showcasing her work flow and inspiration.
She also collaborated with Kate Simko and London Electronic Orchestra, for an all women event at the Royal Albert Hall in March 2018.

In her audiovisual and live cinema performances, she explores socio-political and psychological themes, often collaborating with producers, DJs, or musicians to develop the audio aspect.

L’Aubaine was co-director, with Neon and Mowgli, of VJ London, from 2015 till 2020, where she organised many of the monthly meet-up & showcases. With VJ London they also organised bigger events (AV Depot, London Is Dead) with interactive installations, AV performances with local and international artists.

Beyond live shows, she creates music videos, visuals for streaming, graphic and motion designs for artists, record labels and added with commercial design jobs.

SELECTED INTERVIEWS
Art + Sound on Resident Advisor (RA), Oct 2021
https://ra.co/features/3890

Audiovisualcity interview – 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdi_Fr7chU

Rhythm Rally – Corsica Studios, London, Oct 2024
Live visuals alongside dj sets of Hiba Salameh and Ronisa

Machina Bristronica, Oct 2024 / Bristol
Live visuals w/ hybrid analogue set up alongside Surgeon live set

Animal Farm – leZoo/Usine, Geneve – Sept 2024
live visuals alongside Surgeon b2b Rrose, Opäk b2b Gioski

Crux Festival – April 2024, London
AV performance with musician Kareem Samara

Secret Garden Party – 2023
VJing / Live visuals on stage The Drop, electronic music.
Mathew Johnson, Blond:ish, Absolute, Samurai Breaks, Ben Gomori, Gerd Janson, and more

Lille VJ Fest, Lille – 17 Dec 2022
Fragments – AV performance w/ dj set of Sybil

Festival Visual Brasil – Barcelona – 30 Sept 2022
Live visual set alongside dj set of Cherman
festivalvisualbrasil.com

Boomtown – 2022
Live visuals + mapping alongside dj set Chaos in the CBD, Metropolis stage
and VJing at Origin stage
www.boomtownfair.co.uk

Glastonbury 2022
Live visuals + mapping – Multi-screens
alongside Goldie, Saoirse, Ali is Me b2b Ed Rockstar
Gas Tower / Shangri-la — glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Prada Extends curated by Richie Hawtin
Live visuals alongside dj set of OK Williams
Tate Modern, London – 25 Nov 2021

Shambala festival 2019/2017/2016/2015/2013
Fulldome live visuals in Chromatouch dome, Live visuals on main stage and at Datamine
www.shambalafestival.org

Junction 2 Launch Day – VJ job
Live visuals + mapping
Using some bespoke content by Immersive.me and my content
alongside dj sets of Fort Romeau, Âme b2b Røhåd and Amelie Lens
Tobacco Dock, London – 29 Dec 2018

Fantoche, animation festival
Live visuals alongside SCOTU
Royal Fish – Baden/CH – 8 Sept 2018

Splice Festival
Live AV, collaboration with Orka
Rich Mix, London, 11 May 2018 / splicefestival.com

Women and the Hall
Collaboration with Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra + special guests
Royal Albert Hall. London – 6 March 2018

Residency at Le Zoo – l’Usine / Geneva – 2016 to 2020
Live visuals, mapping and multi-projections on varied screen shapes
alongside Egyptian Lover, Claro Intelecto, Forest Drive West, Pearson Sound, SHXCXCHCXS, Ivy Lab and many more

Bobby Tank Oxygen (Anthologie), EP Launch, label Not Like That
Live visuals alongside live of Bobby Tank
Immersive projection on 4 walls
G05 / London – 2 Feb 2017

MAPPING / LIVE MAPPING

Winner of the live mapping contest
LPM – Morocco edition, 2024

Serum Light Festival
A Brighter Perspective – architectural mapping
Slovakia – 30 -31 Sept 2022

Weimar Loci Lab
Live mapping on Bauhaus museum
Weimar / Germany – 7-13 August 2017