BENJAMIN DUPONT
The Experiential Ringmaster
From the circus to the factory, artist Benjamin Dupont has spent decades triggering emotion though his visual and audio work. With a degree in industrial design, Benjamin spent 11 years at Cirque du Soleil where he managed set designers, composers, lighting designers, choreographers, motion designers and costume designers (no clowns, though). Today, in collaboration with his team at Moment Factory, Benjamin brings his Big Top background as the experiential agency’s multimedia director, working on sets for a number of music tours and performances — from The Killers and 5 Seconds of Summer to Machine Gun Kelly and Conan Gray. Always on the hunt for the weird and the wonderful, Benjamin’s experimented with everything from laser scenography to drone characters.
Projects
Aside from his dramatic concert stages and performance sets (we’re partial to 5 Seconds of Summer at the Royal Albert Hall), Benjamin is known for creating rich, immersive universes. For a limited time in November 2022, Arc’teryx and Moment Factory invited New Yorkers to embark on a summit trek complete with rugged landscapes and weather that changes at the drop of a hat, putting Arc’teryx’s outdoor equipment to the test. The twist? It was all indoors. His latest project, Miroir Miroir, asks guests, Where do you go when you’re lost in thought? Where do you go in your dreams?, combining scenography, lighting design, original music and interactivity to explore the imagination. Earlier in his career, while at Cirque du Soleil, Benjamin and team partnered with ETH Zurich and Verity Studios on SPARKED. The short film features interactive choreography where humans and drones move in sync — because who else could take us there if not Cirque?
