Eastern Bloc

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....

"Fireplace” is a video piece presenting scenes of burning optical mouses and keyboards as would tinder in a fireplace. In the old days of "hearth and home," the fireplace was the center of a family's living space and the primary...

Peter Moosgaard develops a speculative future, in which electronic devices have become fossils, brands have evolved into totems, and consumer goods are replicated only for ceremonial purposes. Our present usage of commodities and tech products is mirrored in...

A self-driving car is trapped by a salt circle on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The circle’s pattern of closed and broken lines forms a continuous no entry mark, preventing the automated vehicle from moving forward. Occupying a physical and cognitive...

"Goodnight Sweetheart" is a data and device embalming service. Devices are cast in liquid plastic and data is transferred to ne.me.quitte(s).pas USB keys that are poured in epoxy. The service is a digital data funeral, a ritual to symbolically escape...