Eastern Bloc

A cybernetic musical performance work that bridges robotics and emotion to create a biologically harmonic chamber music, Swarming Emotional Pianos features a set of mobile robots that each house instrumental and lighting components. The behaviour and...

Les Escales Improbables de Montréal take over, for one night only, Eastern Bloc for a series of performances with invited artists Arm, Mc Rappeur, Allison Moore, Marilyne Fournier and L.O.S., Jessica Arseneau, as well as a surprise group during the...

To celebrate the 11th edition of the festival Les HTMelles, ZERO FUTURE, Eastern Bloc presents, in collaboration with Studio XX, a very special evening of live performances. Bringing sound and vision together in three acts, this event features international...

In FOUND, Mitchell Stafiej and Robert Feulner start with a film and transform it, giving it new dimensions: a simultaneously voyeuristic and alienating experience. The film, which functions as the piece’s source material, brings us into intimate moments...

Eastern Bloc is inviting you to spend your Saturday, September 27th with us! To celebrate the start of the new cultural season and our seventh anniversary, we've put together a wild birthday party: part show, part dance-floor, part bbq, part garage sale!...

The Intermedia/Cyberarts program [IMCA] combines media arts, new technologies and interdisciplinary practices: working with video art, electronic art, programming and performance, the students of this year’s graduating class have created a collection of...

Adam Basanta and Julian Stein present Invisible Lines, a work in which the sonic relationship between microphones, speakers, and acoustic environments are amplified so that the inaudible may be detected and heard. One might say, even, that it is the beauty of...

As part of the festival Gaudeamus-Montréal, produced by Innovations en concert, percussionist and experimental composer, Diego Espinosa, will perform a a series of audacious audio-visual works and launch his new DVD. Espinosa is an artist who...

3 April 2014   Guillaume Vallée - Because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end     Final presentation - MFA in Studio Arts - Film Production option - Université Concordia     IN...

ETC Magazine, from now on known as ETC MEDIA, enthusiastically joins forces with Eastern Bloc for the launch of its next issue, entirely revised in both form and content and dedicated exclusively to new media arts. One of a kind in Quebec, the magazine directs...

Digiscapes: Landscape, Nature, and Visual Technology Landscape has always figured as a mediator between the natural world and human technology. While on the one hand, the extension of technology seems to preclude any direct contact with nature, on the...

The politics of the Roosevelt administration (1933-1945) and the achievements of the New Deal epoch were celebrated in the official American discourse, most notably by way of a photographic statement—an ideal America presented as a panoramic portrait....

Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented: in a 2010 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors are female. We invite you to help address this absence at a Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, February 1, 2014 from...

The practice of drawing and its inherent representational quality boasts a robust heritage as a subject of scholarly and artistic investigation. Drawings are objects that are consumed, circulated, and invested with social, political, and economic value....