Eastern Bloc

UPCOMING

23 - 27 May 2012
SIGHT & SOUND FESTIVAL
4th edition

Complete program online:
Thomas Bégin [CA]
chdh [FR]
Nohista [FR]
Carrie Gates & Jon Vaughn [CA]
Valentina Vuksic [CH]
Philip Stearns [EU]
Matthijs Munnik [NL]
Zach Gage [EU]
Robyn Moody [CA]
Pavitra Wickramasinghe [CA]
+ A Tribe Called Red [CA]
+ Artkillart [FR]

www.sightandsoundfestival.ca

Buy your tickets online:
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5 May 2012
CIRCUIT BENDING WITH PETER EDWARDS
Casper Electronics

This workshop is for artists and musicians who want to start learning about electronics. We will not be covering any complex theory or math and will instead be looking at physical circuits and identifying the basic building blocks that make them up. Hacking and circuit bending will be used as tools to start understanding electronics through hands on experimentation. Along the way we will cover proper soldering technique and the operation of potentiometers and other common electrical hardware.

Workshop : 1pm - 4pm
Cost : $20

www.casperelectronics.com



25 April 2012
DATA : SALON VI
John Boyle-Singfield

This sixth instalment of the Data : Salon series will be the opportunity to discover the work of emerging artist John Boyle-Singfield. Boyle-Singfield makes use of a large variety of mediums including video, painting and sculpture. His work questions the place these mediums occupy in a digital world where the Internet is the most predominant of mediums. The artist engages in a dialogue of appropriation and non-authorship throughout his artistic practice. Keeping with our mandate to present works in progress, Data : Salon will offer Boyle-Singfield an opportunity to discuss and propel his most recent projects.

7pm - 10pm

www.johnboylesingfield.com

CALLS

DATA : SALON
Ongoing call

From September 2011 until June 2012, a monthly event, informal in nature, will showcase the works in progress of Eastern Bloc’s current and potential members. Participating artists receive immediate feedback from the public, are given access to the centre’s exhibition spaces, our technical resources, the team’s expertise and a wide range of documentations services and marketing tools. Please submit your proposal – in the fields of New Media and digital art – at any time during the 2011 – 2012 season.

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18 May 2012
Alex Borkowski

Throughout her multidisciplinary and eclectic artistic practice, Pavitra Wickramsinghe is consistently “guided by the need to know how things work – to break down motion, videos and screens to their most elementary steps and build them up again.” She is not concerned with photographic clarity of the filmic medium, but rather with the ways in which this clarity is constructed and illusory. Her “Screen Tests,” for example, unsettle the fundamental element of the screen that structures the perception of video art. By building layered screens of wavy nylon and steel fibres, she creates the possibility of new distortions and refractions of the light beam of the projection. She unpacks the way in which images are presented to us in order to open up the video medium to new optical and imaginative possibilities.

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3 May 2012
Ming Lin

Ralitsa Doncheva's film works occupy an ambient space which traverses definitions of fine art, performance and cinema. At Eastern Bloc's most recent Data : Salon, which invites emerging artists to exhibit their works-in-progress, she showed her latest film Still Moving on parallel screens, the tripartite imagery on each reflected on the surface opposite to it.

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10 April 2012
Alex Borkowski

Flicker is not new. Nor is it dependent on complex technology. The most basic instance is caused by looking into a bright light and waving a hand in front of closed eyes. Flicker was also the subject of the Dream Machine, basically a light bulb suspended in a perforated cylinder rotating on a record turntable, which provided a visionary experience to artists and poets such as William S. Burroughs in the 1960s. Yet Matthijs Munnik’s performance/installation Citadels is far removed from this natural phenomenon or dreamy experience. Using contemporary light and sound technology, Munnik has intensified the flicker effect to the utmost extreme.

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