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Spinning Worlds in NEOSVR
Neos is an innovative metaverse engine designed for social VR applications and loaded with possibilities for creativity. Over the last months BBMC members have been exploring the platform, learning more about the complex interface, dreaming up new ideas and experimenting with streamed performance. We have also been designing a new studio space. The NEOS worlds…
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Requiem for MacGrid
macGRID has closed down. BBMC and the Odyssey project have been very grateful to enjoy access to online space on macGRID, multidisciplinary simulation research network and platform — a project of MacMaster University — and are sad to see it go the way of all virtual worlds. Odyssey members enjoyed access to space on the…
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NEOS VR is The Place
The BBMC has been exploring multiple VR environments over the last four months as a part of our Canada Council for the Arts funded Odyssey VR Project. Collective members are looking for VR platforms that will support workflows for creative projects and that will offer realistic possibilities for presentation in performance, performance art, installation and…
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BBMC Collections release – Songs From The Hall
The BBMC have just released another board tape to our Collections page – this time from 1987. “Songs From the Hall” is a selection of tracks from an old cassette board tape of a live show that happened at the LSPU Hall. Though the original recording (the very first live to DAT recording in NL)…
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Odyssey VR
Odyssey VR – a brand new project from the BBMC – launches next week on VR platforms everywhere. BBMC members are exploring new VR spaces as sites for creating and presenting performances and performance art work. We are also exploring and developing workflows for creating VR based machinima. All members of the Odyssey Group and…
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Solo to receive Stompin’ Tom ECMA
The East Coast Music Association has just announced their 2018 Honorary ECMA Awards. Congratulations to BBMC member and co-founder Liz Solo for being named a 2018 East Coast Music Award recipient. The Stompin’ Tom Award was created in honour of Canadian independent music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors to celebrate the work of pioneers on the…
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International Women’s Day at BBMC
The Odyssey Simulators are hosting special presentations on International Women’s Day with a program of online performances, installations and screenings. Featuring new work from our online collaborators including Colleen McLaughlin/Nebulosus Severine, Bibbe Hansen/Bibbe Oh, Fau Ferdinand, Humming Pera/Tina M Pearson, Liz Solo and more! A collaboration with Roles 4 Women. Schedule of International Women’s Day…
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Odyssey Artists at Corporealidades Pós-humanas, Brazil
Flurries of activity on the Odyssey Simulators this month with multiple performances from the sim streamed to the Corporealidades Pós-humanas festival in Salvador, Brazil, including new performances by Senses Places (Canada/International), Isabel Valverde (Portugal) and SaveMe Oh (Netherlands). This is documentation from Senses Places’ interactive workshop and performance at Corporealidades Pós-humanas. Avatars assist in demonstrating…
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New Spaces
Happy New Year! 2018 is here and BBMC are starting off with the official opening of our new studio (the corner of Bathurst and Alcina). Stay tuned here for news about our opening partay! In the BBMC studio we are preparing for the development of a new Odyssey Space in the online world of VR…
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Avatar Salad on Odyssey
The Second Front have been working on the Odyssey Simulators this week preparing a new piece for the University of Wichita’s At A Distance Exhibit, coming up next month. Here are a few shots from “Virtual Proposition for Alison Knowles #1 – Make an Avatar Salad”, based on an Alison Knowles event score/performance called “Proposition…
