New York-based video artist Bec Stupak creates flashy, fast-paced video works saturated with club-kid effervescence. Using collage, repetition, and shifting fields of bright color, Stupak melds live action with pulsing animation to leave viewers feeling dazzled and punch-drunk.

A former new-media art director for Atlantic Records, Stupak draws on her skills as a hula hooper, costume designer, web designer, and face and body painter to produce music videos, video installations, and animated projects. In hallucinogenic love letter Creamie Eternity , a naked Stupak contorts provocatively through a kaleidoscopic animation to kiss her mirror image. She collaborates frequently with scantily clad, glitter-dusted troupe the Dazzle Dancers, as with their joint disco remix of the Love Boat theme song.

Stupak's videos are actively experienced rather than passively watched. She aims to expand the boundaries and definition of video art, and since the start of her career, has pioneered the use of projecting live feeds in performance pieces and dance parties, creating site-specific video mixes. Whether working with assume vivid astro focus, diva Ultra Nate, or Honeygun Labs — the experimental VJ collective she founded in 1999 — Stupak celebrates kitschy fun and pajama-party hijinks, and in every project, she proves that she's both jack and master of all trades.

-Shayla Harris