B e e W i l d e
Director · Artist · Music Producer
Emotionally electric worlds across sound and moving image.
Bee Wilde is the music and moving-image world of Bianca Janine Pettis, a Minneapolis-based artist, producer, director, and mix engineer and founder of Beatrix*Jar.
As Bee Wilde, Pettis creates emotionally charged work through sound, comics, AI-assisted media, and speculative storytelling.
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The latest:
I’m currently creating music and moving-image work as Bee Wilde and The Listening Office.
Bee Wilde combines songwriting, sampled voices, found sound, and fragments of my own vocals. Songs including “Hydrocephalus” and “Cut the Current” move through grief, caregiving, memory, disruption, and reinvention.
The Listening Office is an instrumental project: bass-heavy cinematic electronic music inspired by abandoned streets, late-night broadcasts, malfunctioning public-information systems, and robots approaching from the darkness.
NOW BOOKING: I am available for Artist Talks, AI Sessions, Music Video Creation, Mix Engineering and Artist Talks.
The National Robot Film Archive for speculative robot cinema,
Check out my ANALOG WORK which I am updating on my website.
I am creating a podcast with my partner Jacob called Future Couple Podcast, about my work as a caregiver and his future navigating health issues. You can see clips on my Instagram feed. Beatrix*Jar is a creative collaboration I founded with Jacob.
And, I am creating physical books of my comics, look for those in coming months!
MUSIC VIDEOS
PRESS
OFFERINGS
My practice moves across sound, music, moving image, storytelling, and emerging technologies. I work with artists, musicians, organizations, and curious people to develop original projects, talks, workshops, and creative collaborations.
Some offerings are structured, some are custom. If you have an idea, a song, a question, or a project in progress, get in touch and we can figure out what makes sense.
MUSIC VIDEOS
Got a song that needs a world? I create cinematic, experimental music videos using AI, animation, editing, and sound. Projects can range from simple visualizers to fully developed narrative films. Let’s talk about your idea and create a budget.
ARTIST TALKS + CONVERSATIONS
I speak about my work across music, sound, performance, technology, filmmaking, and visual art — from the collaborative experiments of Beatrix*Jar to my current work as Bee Wilde.Talks can explore circuit bending and DIY culture, collaboration, reinvention, caregiving and creative identity, AI filmmaking, sound and image, world-building, or the long strange process of sustaining an art practice over time.
Available for artist talks, classroom visits, panels, workshops, screenings, and conversations. Let’s discuss your audience, format, and budget.
AI VISUAL + SOUND WORKSHOPS
I help artists, musicians, and curious beginners use AI tools to create original visual and sound-based work. Sessions can focus on image generation, animation, music, sound, storytelling, or developing a complete project from idea to finished piece.
Notes on USE OF AI
I’m an artist, writer, performer, and creative collaborator working across comics, visual art, sound, video, performance, and experimental storytelling. I work with AI as a collaborator. I was born into a world of dial tones, rotary phones, black and white televisions, film projectors, cassette hiss, fax machines, Xerox machines and heavy machines. I watched those machines shrink into screens, feeds, timelines, clouds, prompts, and video phones.
My practice is shaped by late night tv, film, theater, photography, playwriting, fine art, performance, music, comics, punk, Dada, Fluxus, mix tapes, editing rooms, stage lights, and broken equipment. I love technology and how old mediums collide with new tools. That is how movements are born.
So - this world - Echo City TV, Bee Wilde Sessions, Bee Wilde Comics, it lives between the hospital room, days of ambiguous loss, late night television broadcasts. I am grieving the only way I know how - through pop culture, punk humor, medical diagrams, analog machines and the weird little jokes we make when the pain gets too enormous to look at directly.