Eastern Bloc

"Spiel" is an in situ performance for prepared mouth.   While conversing in a room, someone walks towards you. The stranger comes closer, leans in, and listens. The mysterious device affixed to their face brings a halt to the...

On May 6th 2010 at 2:40 p.m. sharp, a 20-minute crash on the New York Stock Exchange took place. Its losses are estimated at around 1000.000.000.000 USD. This event, known as the "Flashcrash," is one of the most significant events to shed light on...

The "Voyager Golden Record” is a phonograph record that was included aboard both Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977 - a bottle tossed into the cosmic ocean.   It contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and...

“Data_connection,” referring to the film “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin, is a data stream performance.   With a downloaded set of texts encoded in digital signal on audio cassettes and an apparatus of...

This panel will explore the political dimension of the techno-scientific realm in relation to the giants of the digital revolution, specifically with regards to notions of digital colonialism and emancipatory appropriation.   Conference in English...

The participatory performance of Aliens in Green examines the alienating impact of endocrine disrupters through a DIY extraction ritual of the collective hormones secreted in the urine. By observing the active substances of various origins that cross us, it...

The opening event of the 9th edition of SIGHT + SOUND 2017, will feature interventions by Aliens in Green and Thomas Bégin, the vernissage of the exhibit and the chance to meet the local and international artists! INTERVENTION – ALIENS...

"Robotic Trolley" is a remote-controlled motorized shopping cart with a robotic arm capable of grabbing products off of store shelves. Equipped with numerous cameras and operated by a neural network from an off-site control station, the robot goes...

Python programs, Computer, Networked installation 2017 "Dataghost 2" is an introspective, kabbalistic, and recursive computational machine. It tirelessly studies the written traces of its internal activity, its logs, the exegesis of which gives...

"Special Period in Times of Peace" was how the Cuban government termed the country’s crisis in 1990. The country’s centralized economy imploded at its inner core: the home. The family became an autonomous economic unit. Workers,...

"World Brain" proposes a stroll through motley folkloric tales: data centers, animal magnetism, the Internet as a myth, the inner lives of rats, how to gather a network of researchers in the forest, how to survive in the wild using Wikipedia or how...

Join speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system, as they take a tour in a driverless taxi through a network of software systems. They go through autonomous infrastructures, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches and...

“LogforData” is an audio tape composed of several digital audio coding protocols like modem 56k, FAX, 80's personal computers. These audio data contain a copy text from an IRC channel, online secure conversations between several members. The...

Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. “The Garden of...

"Refonte” is a series of rudimentary spears and weapons, made from electronic waste material. The scrap metal is melted and poured into moulds, echoing the ancient techniques of primitive weapon-making - using copper alloys, aluminum, and gold....