Eastern Bloc

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...

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...

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...

"Charges" is an homage to the pioneer video artist Jean-Pierre Boyer. Freely inspired by Boyer’s videos made during the 1970’s with his "Boyétiseur" and his use of video feedbacks, "Charges" is the result of an...

"for MS" is an exploration of dimensionality, constraint, and projection in tribute to Michael Snow. Installation with paracord, knots, textiles, tape, tarpaulin, steel, brass, and oscillators. - Erin Sexton was inspired by the pioneer...

The laughter of this space is charged, political, infectious, complexly musical, and borne of the air that survivors still breathe. - Erin Gee was inspired by the pioneer canadian artist : Cheryl L'hirondelle -  «...

"DEEP SOLUTIONS" is an immersive environment that invites participants to take a virtual voyage into the dark and strange corners of the web. - Craig Fahner and Matthew Waddell were inspired by the pioneer Canadian artist Catherine...

"Shimmer Generator" is a photographic work that peers into the intricately hand-wired world inhabiting obsolete vacuum tube technology. - Darsha Hewitt was inspired by the pioneer canadian artist : Doug Back -  The site of this...

Jennifer Chan joins forces with Cat Bluemke, Jonathan Carroll, and Ben McCarthy to apply a user testing approach to creating a game for cats. - Jennifer Chan was inspired by the pioneering canadian artists : Emily Vey Duke and Cooper...

“The Sense of Neoism?! An Infinite Manifesto” is an attempt to transfer the spirit of Neoism?! into a machine that can indefinitely generate blurbs, reflexions, motos, and nonsense. Underlying the system is an artificial neural network machine...

Responding to the work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, "Persistent Teenage Gestures" similarly foregrounds a sense of buried narrative, developing an ambiguous, almost noir-like sensibility. 2018. Electric guitar, amplifier, bowling...