Category: Black Bag Media Collective
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Interview with Marcel Levandier
JE Solo in conversation with photographer, artist and musician, Marcel Levandier, about his Nightwalker exhibit–a collection of nighttime street photographs–currently running on our odyssey Simulators in Second Life and in VRChat. How to find the exhibit: In Second Life, use this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/74/36/22. In VRChat – search for “Odyssey” in the world’s menu and choose…
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NIGHTWALKER
NIGHTWALKER by MARCEL LEVANDIER Nightwalker is a collection of black and white photographs by Marcel Levandier that explore the nocturnal urban landscape of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. These images document the darkness–street lights illuminating lone figures on rain-soaked streets, objects left in empty parking lots, ghostly reflections on the surface store windows. The photographer…
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VR Forward Opening at The Wrong Biennale
Join us on SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5TH FROM 1 TO 4 PM SLT/PST in Second Life, for the opening of multiple installations featuring the artists of VR Forward. Debora Alanna, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, The House of Zolo, Lisa Timpf, TWK Templar, L. X. Beckett, Yuan Changming, and JE Solo. Artists utilizing Virtual and Augmented Reality platforms…
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We Are Live in VRChat!
The BBMC has just launched our very first world in VR Chat! Odyssey in VRC is a sister sim to the Odyssey artist worlds in Second Life and NEOS VR. This world was created for us by Mr. Ree of BeeVR and features a gallery space, outdoor amphitheatre, video players, wooded trails, and a collection…
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I Have Been There
The BBMC start off the New Year with the presentation of our very first commissioned AR (Augmented Reality) artwork – “I Have Been There” by Chun Hua Catherine Dong. “I Have Been There” is a free AR app for iOS and Android devices. The app gives users the opportunity to place a three dimensional rendering…
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Another Historic First for BBMC Artists
BBMC artists, led by JE Solo, have been working with teams of programmers to create NPCs (Non-Player Characters) inside of NEOS VR who think using a quantum computer. This week, many months of work have been paying off as JE Solo tests the quantum programming of their NPC for the first time. JE Solo has…
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Time is a book
Ongoing research from the BBMC project Quantum Computing in NEOS VR, from Liz Solo’s webpage: “I’m working with different Artificial Intelligence technologies and machine learning programs in order to 1) see what they can do; and 2) develop a virtual artist who composes work that contains some of the creative “DNA” of my own work–a…
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under world
These videos document JE Solo’s under world installation, and feature Artificially Intelligent Non Player Characters – twin whales. These underwater creatures compose their own unique songs in real time based on their interpretations of an original composition by the artist. This project is part of the BBMC’s Meta Creation in NEOS VR project. Meta…
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From the Vault: 2004
Today we release a selection of songs from the Rock Can Roll Records Vault, 2004 (RCRR was a division of the Independent Artists Cooperative/BBMC). Twelve tracks are now available on the Collections section of our Bandcamp pages. Featuring: Lizband – Man Who Can Go (I Need A) Coast Guard – Summer Birthday Jody Richardson –…
