Eastern Bloc

The workshop is full! You can register on the waiting list by writing to lab@easternbloc.ca. Please let us know if you would like the workshop to be given again this year. Thank you! Description : Demystifying Electronic Art is a three-day workshop aimed...

Exhibition | FEMALE FUTURES The installation "PAN/PAN" probes the connections between exploration, wilderness, and technology in a contemporary context. Drawing on the visual vocabularies of landscape painting and NASA live-streams, PAN/PAN...

Exhibition | FEMALE FUTURES Video installation "Temple" / By using photos of her skin that she turns into three-dimensional objects, Renée Lamothe plays with the perception of the body, reducing it to its most basic form. This...

Exhibition | FEMALE FUTURES "Pleasure Receptors" is an interactive sculpture installation using various sensors and audience input. The work focuses on themes of sexuality, technology, and feminism in regards to technology and its ability to act...

How do we react towards a machine reliant on human interaction in order to reach a sexual climax? What arises when human skin is transformed into three-dimensional objects? Renée Lamothe, Katherina Ilenseer and Anna Eyler's installations in...

Description:This workshop is an artistic and technical introduction to 3D scanning. The participants will learn how to scan objects and spaces, process them, and integrate them in various tools, depending on their artistic practice. The 3D scans can be...

Description: Throughout the course, we will build a library for the algorithmic composition of music. This course of 6 weeks is a broad introduction to the fundamentals of programming in Python. Because the reality is that one doesn't become a proficient...

Join us at Eastern Bloc on January 12th for the launch of Living Codex, Witnessing's new album, with accompanying performances by /||\||\, Neo Edo, Valeda, and Teo Zamudio!  The proceeds of the event will contribute to the financing of...

Eastern Bloc and CKUT are teaming up for a reinvented radio project, a curation of sounds picked and pulled from a variety of sound archives and banks, carefully integrating music from local and non-local artists. Entitled “PirateBlocRadio”,...

For the 32 edition of our Data: Salon series, we invite two artists selected from an open call for submission to participate in a one week residency. During their time, they will finalize one of their works and present it during an...

We have the pleasure of inviting you to our Annual General Assembly on Thursday December 6th, 2018 from 7pm to 9pm. We would also encourage you to bring a friend or an acquaintance who is interested in digital arts.  Everyone is welcome!  The...

Eastern Bloc is pleased to host Felipe Lozano, for a creation and production residency (Nov 2 -22) to develop the project entitled "Loneliness in Netflix times". He will present his work at Eastern Bloc's gallery, Thursday November...

Description : This hands-on workshop of 5 hours will cover different processes and approaches to analog video, glitch techniques and aesthetics. Participants will then be able to explore their own process using found footage, VCRs, and analog video mixers and...

Eastern Bloc in collaboration with AKOUSMA present a hands on workshop with the modular synth designers Befaco!  In this DIY workshop all the necessary components will be provided (in kit format) to build a device from scratch. Each participant builds...

Launch of "Book of Neoism?!" in the presence of Istvan Kantor BOOK LAUNCH + PERFORMANCE + FREE BRAINWASH + INDOCTRINATION  This bible size book reveals the insurgent anti-credo of Neoism?!: six volumes of unexpurgated decibels of...