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Factory Media Centre is Hamilton's artist-run centre for film, new media, installation and sound art.

The Factory Media Centre is a not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre dedicated to the production and promotion of creatively diverse forms of independent films, videos, and other streaming multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region, who are involved o

r interested in the Art, the Craft and the Technologies of, but not limited to the motion picture media. The Factory exists to provide access to facilities, equipment, peer resources and educational initiatives to the community of time-based visual artists, as well as to the community at large. To encourage the development and appreciation of all related visual art forms through an ongoing program of screening and events.

05/20/2026

Please join us for a FREE workshop hosted by audio-visual artist Charlie Star (.slinky) 💿

Material Sound: Locked Loops is an experimental sound workshop exploring abstract turntablism through noise and modulation. Creating handmade records from unconventional and household materials, participants will then use turntables, modulators, and effect pedals to manipulate surface textures and locked grooves into evolving sonic compositions. The workshop is open to all and encourages experimentation with noise and collaboration.

This workshop is free but spots are limited!

🔗 Please RSVP through the link in our bio.

04/20/2026

We’re thrilled to present Ctrl + Alt + Create, an exhibition featuring undergraduate research-creation projects developed by students enrolled in Media Arts 4ST6 (Senior Thesis Research and Production) at McMaster University!

🌟 Ctrl + Alt + Create opens TONIGHT from 6-9PM, and is on view until May 1st 🌟

Media Arts 4ST6 offers fourth year students the opportunity to develop their own capstone artistic projects. The final projects are a culmination of research, development, and creation using skills and ideas learned in the Communication Studies and Media Arts program at McMaster University.

01/25/2026

❄️🚨 Due to the weather forecast tomorrow, FMC’s AGM will be online via Zoom! 🚨❄️

Join us tomorrow for the AGM, with our 20th Annual Members Screening watch party following the AGM!

📋 AGM | 1PM, Online via Zoom (link in bio)
🍿 Members Screening | Following the AGM

Our 20th Annual Members Screening features works by Eleanor Abrahams, Lesley Loksi Chan, Steacy Easton, Taras Hemon, Derek Jenkins, Jordan King, Chris Myhr, Andrew O’Connor, Martha Steele, and Jamila Turkstra

🔗 Click through the link in our bio to join the AGM Zoom and learn more about the Members Screening!

01/19/2026

We are thrilled to present a special free screening of R. Bruce Elder’s Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together) 🌀Join us in person at Factory Media Centre on February 15th for a cozy late winter screening, with the artist in attendance! Due to limited seating, we ask that attendees RSVP.

🗓️ Sunday, February 15th | 2PM
📍 Factory Media Centre
✍️ RSVP Required

On Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together), Elder writes:

“We all know that electric media have produced numerous degrading, all-pervasive forms of surveillance that have virtually eliminated that privacy which heretofore was a bastion of human dignity. But is it possible that electric media and their capacities for openness and revelation might result in a new form of transcendence?

This question constitutes the problematic of ALONE (ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER) and the poem at the core of the work. The project embodies our (R. Bruce Elder and Ajla Odobašić’s) imaginings of what the electric poetry of the future might be: a multi-focal, multi-medial form whose nature reflects the interpenetration of all energies everywhere and throughout time–an ethereal togetherness.”

🔗 Click through the link in our bio to learn more and to RSVP!

01/13/2026

📣 Calling all FMC Members!

We’re excited to invite you to our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday, January 25th at 1:00PM!

The AGM is an opportunity to learn about all the activities, accomplishments, funding announcements, and programming from the past year. It is also a great time for you, our members, to exercise your voice in the future governance of Factory, and let us know what you want to see from the organization! The AGM is open to all and free to attend. There will be snacks and light refreshments provided.

Our 20th Annual Members Screening will follow the AGM 🍿 Join us for a cozy afternoon of celebrating FMC’s accomplishments this past year, and envisioning our future together!

📍 Sunday, January 25th | 1:00PM
📍 Hybrid: In-person at FMC + online via Zoom

🔗 Can’t make it to the meeting but want to have your voice heard? Follow the link in our bio to submit a proxy form, and read about the candidates to join the board!

💭 Interested in becoming a member with FMC or have questions? Email us at [email protected] !

01/12/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that Emma Eichenberg will be joining us as our first 2026 &NOW Artist-in-Residence! 💧🕳️💧

Emma’s residency work focuses on expanding her research into underground infrastructure and urban geographies, exploring how these systems mirror larger geological rhythms. Through conducting fieldwork in Hamilton’s Beasley and North End neighbourhoods, the work seeks to examine the duality between subterranean and atmospheric layers, the fast-moving asthenosphere below and the calm stratosphere above, and how these strata echo the hidden flows beneath Hamilton’s infrastructure.

🔗 To learn more about Emma’s work and the &NOW Residency, click through the link in our bio!

12/16/2025

Submissions are open for Factory’s 20th Annual Members’ Screening! 📽️

This is your opportunity to see what your fellow members have been working on, and to showcase your work to the Hamilton Arts Community. Submissions for our Members’ Screening are only open to FMC members. Contact [email protected] to purchase a membership!

We are accepting submissions of:
✅ Video Works
✅ Audio Works
✅ Video documentation of installations or performances

Deadline: January 11, 2026

🔗 Click through the link in our bio to submit to the Members’ Screening, or to become a member!

12/09/2025

THIS THURSDAY! 💥 Join us for a free, double feature screening of Australian artist duo Soda Jerk’s ‘Terror Nullius’ and ‘Hello Dankness’, co-presented by FMC and Orchid Contemporary 🍿

🗓️Thursday, December 11th | 7–9:30PM
📍Factory Media Centre
✍️RSVP Required

Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, ‘Terror Nullius’ is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. ‘Hello Dankness’ is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, and the mythologies and lore that took root around it.

Due to limited seating, we ask that attendees RSVP.

🔗 Click through the link in our bio to learn more and to RSVP!

11/10/2025

FMC and Orchid Contemporary are thrilled to present a free, double feature screening of Australian artist duo Soda Jerk’s ‘Terror Nullius’ and ‘Hello Dankness’!

🗓️Thursday, December 11th | 7–9:30PM
📍Factory Media Centre
✍️RSVP Required

Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, ‘Terror Nullius’ is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. ‘Hello Dankness’ is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, and the mythologies and lore that took root around it.

Join us at FMC for a cozy winter screening! Due to limited seating, we ask that attendees RSVP.

🔗 Click through the link in our bio to learn more and to RSVP!

11/04/2025

Join us for a free &NOW Residency Info Session + Application Workshop!

🗓️ Sunday, November 16th from 1-2:30PM
📍In-Person at FMC & Online via Zoom
✍️RSVP Required

The workshop will walk participants through the residency basics and online application process for our annual &NOW Production Residency and Scholarship, offering guidance on what the programming committee looks for in an application, how applicants can communicate your ideas clearly, and how to develop your concept! Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions and receive feedback on their in-progress applications.

🔗Click through the link in our bio to RSVP to the workshop!

10/06/2025

Join us this Thursday Oct. 9th from 7–9pm for the opening reception of “fixed in place”, a solo exhibition by Morgan Sears-Williams! 🎞️✨ And rumour has it, the evening will also feature a performance by Derek Jenkins! 🎉👀

Co-presented by FMC and Dadelion Film Collective, “fixed in place” examines the geological and personal erosion occurring at Hanlan’s Point Beach on the Toronto Islands. Hanlan’s Point Beach was the site of Canada’s first ever “Pride” celebration in 1971 and continues to be an important gathering place for the city’s q***r community. “fixed in place” holds both joy and desire simultaneously, along with the grief and loss experienced in q***r spaces through both personal and geological erosion.

“The Loop Cave” by Derek Jenkins is a vast participatory environment of moving images at Factory Media Centre. Comprising selections from his collection of archival films, ten analog projectors will loop clips at multiple angles, sizes, and lengths. Part performance, part happening – visitors will be immersed in a cavern of mechanically produced images while participating in the generation of loops over the course of the evening, as well transforming the projected images through various physical interventions.

🔗Click through the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition and performance!

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366 Victoria Avenue North
Hamilton, ON
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