Eastern Bloc

"2000 Watts" is a group exhibit of the graduating students in the InterMedia/CyberArts program at Concordia University. 2000 is the total combined wattage utilized by the twelve projectors used to amplify the motifs of the exhibiting artists in...

"By Hook or By Crook," a group exhibit of Concordia students, is a diversified marriage of practices and approaches that expand on the possibilities of fibre art. Contemporary reinterpretations of fibre are a veritable explosion of known...

Blind Date by Tatiana Koroleva interprets dating websites as a new age dream world that embodies the most intimate desires of users for ideal relationships. Populated with perfected images of potential lovers, dating networks serve as a modern space for...

Curator: Anita Schoepp An international, multidisciplinary art show bringing together 14 different artists to participate by responding to the question, ‘How would you personify your sexuality?’ Through a diversity of mediums, the exhibition...

FAUX LAB, an exhibition of recent works by members of Les Laboratoires Foulab – a hackerspace based in the St. Henri neighbourhood of Montreal, aims to demonstrate the work of hackers, the mad scientists of the maker world, whose work is steeped in a DIY...

In “PARA site” Kfir asks viewers to consider how storytelling can take place phenomenologically, in the absence of cinematic narrative. Entering the installation, the viewer is confronted with a series of fragmentary cinematic loops, which...

Charlebois occupies social networking sites in a similar manner that a graffiti artist intervenes in the public space. Through several blogs, he shares his interests and discoveries in the form of a list of links on his encyclopedic site DAILY WIKI. He...

Ethnographic Terminalia is an exhibition of over 20 local, national, and international artists who work at the intersection of art and anthropology. This is an initiative to bring contemporary art practices in closer proximity to forms of anthropological...

For the second year in a row, the Mount-Royal Game Society presents Prince of Arcade, an indie games showcase featuring talent from Montreal and abroad.  ...

Manuel Chantre launches a compilation of his recent projects Memorsion, Disperge Maiz and Popcontinental. A unique edition of the album will be launched in the form of a concrete block, its data only accessible through a USB connection. The project is a...

“The Empty City” is an interactive sound installation in the form of a miniature city, in which buildings emit pre-recorded sounds, or memories of a city. The work aims to engage the viewer in a contemplative state of mind and create a shelter...

For the first time in the event’s history, Montreal hosts Music Hack Day. A weekend full of music, software and hardware hacking, where art and the web meet up to build the future of music. Over the course of one weekend, 150 developers, designers...

"chalkBot" by Jason Roussel generates chalk drawings based on arbitraty, semi-random values.  A tension, between the childish reference of the chalk and the strong geometrical, un-human composition, is left behind. "chalkBot" is a...

Full of humanity, subtle yet complex, the audiovisual works presented in AGIR are born of a collaboration between 49 incarcerated women – approached by virtue of their unique experiences – and 8 professional artists – invited into the...

From the 4th to the 7th of May, with a vernissage on May 7th, three A/V installations will occupy the gallery spaces at Eastern Bloc. Coup d'éclats, 2011 is a new performance/installation created by Danny Perreault with Manuel Chantre,...