Category: experimental

  • 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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  • “the machine” Premieres!

    “the machine” Premieres!

    After a lengthy wait “the machine” – a film shot and edited at the Black Bag Media Collective studio in St. John’s – premiered last week at the 2nd annual TrixXxieFest. There was a lovely crowd in attendance including many members of the cast and crew. The film opened this year’s TrixXxieFest and was followed…

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  • TrixXxieFest 2016!

    TrixXxieFest 2016!

    TrixXxiefest is Coming!! The Black Bag Media Collective are proud to co-produce this event every year with Roles 4 Women – this year happening June 24 and 25 at the Cox and Palmer Second Space at the LSPU Hall. See the full schedule here: TrixXxieFest Schedule TrixXxieFest is a pop-up Festival featuring short films, videos…

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  • BBMC at Hi-Dance with Odyssey and Senses Places

    BBMC at Hi-Dance with Odyssey and Senses Places

    from The Odyssey Simulator Odyssey and the BBMC had the pleasure of hosting another event with Senses Places – Isabel Valverde and Senses Places at Hi-Dance Festival – Dance and Technology, Rome, Italy. Isabel performed live on stage with Odyssey artists/avatars. Avatars performed via large scale projections. Liz Solo and Mike Kean of The Black…

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  • TRIXXXIEFEST

    TRIXXXIEFEST

    The BBMC is stoked to be co-presenting the first annual TRIXXXIEFEST WEEKEND with Roles 4 Women Theatre Company and the band/performance group Trixxxie. Trixxxie have been working in the BBMC Studio all winter long and this event features their debut appearance. As you can see by the following amazing lineup TRIXXXIEFEST puts women’s voices front…

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  • BBMC on macGRID

    BBMC on macGRID

    The Black Bag Media Collective are now working on macGRID. Spear-headed by McMaster University the macGRID is a robust, archivable, Cyberscience and Art research platform (macGRID) and a corresponding network of academic, industry and community partners who wish to engage in interdisciplinary research and creation, resource and knowledge sharing, using simulation, avatar virtual worlds, and…

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  • a consideration by Frank Barry

    TECHNO-DREAM AND NIGHTMARE CHOIR – a consideration by Frank Barry A futuristically primitive live/streaming performance presented by the BLACK BAG MEDIA COLLECTIVE headed by Liz Solo and Tina Pearson and including members of the BBMC, ethno-musicologists from Memorial University and other artists via SECOND LIFE and live stream from Germany, the USA and beyond —…

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  • Flick Harrison and Catherine Falkner at the BBMC

    The BBMC are preparing for their second Visiting Artist’s Residency, this time with Vancouver artists Flick Harrison and Catherine Falkner. Throughout the Residency both artists will be offering workshops. Here are the details: Video-making Workshops with Flick Harrison (Vancouver)   Vancouver artist, filmmaker and rabble rouser Flick Harrison will be in St. John’s from August 28th…

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  • Techno Dream and Nightmare Choir

    The Black Bag Media Collective in collaboration with the Sound Symposium present: TECHNO DREAM AND NIGHTMARE CHOIR a Feisty, participatory Community Art intervention about networked technology. OPEN INVITATION from the Black Bag Media Collective and artist in residence Tina Pearson Send us your Dreams (Send us your Fears) “Techno Dream and Nightmare Choir” is a…

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  • World Telekinesis Competition

    The Black Bags participated again this year in Noxious Sector‘s World Telekinesis Competition. It was a roller coaster ride of a match as we began the round in a long stand-off, lost ground in a big move by our opponents Brain Elevating Neurotransmissions and then made a valiant attempt at a comeback. The official results…

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