Eastern Bloc

For its 30th Data : Salon since 2010, Eastern Bloc will transform into an arcade of experimental video games exploring the poetics of virtual environments. In partnership with the co-curators Roby Provost and Jules Deslandes as well as the research...

My principal aim is to build systems I do not fully understand, with the intention of attempting to understand them. Technological systems aimed at interpreting and shaping desire texture daily life; a means to rationally orchestrate the world. Might not there...

For its sixth edition, RIPA – rencontre interuniversitaire de performance actuelle is proud to present nine projects from emerging artists, in addition to the project of this year’s guest artist, k.g. Guttman. The 2017 programming, achieved in...

"When we consider the progress of the Northern races of mankind, it cannot be denied, that while the struggles of the hardy races of the North with their severe climate, and their forests, have gradually endowed them with an unconquerable energy of...

Never Apart and Eastern Bloc have teamed up once again for this year’s edition of Nuit blanche. Using Expo ’67 as a guiding programming principle, “Social Habitat” is a nod to Habitat ‘67 and the environments in which we inhabit...

"Will the internet end soon?" It is with this question that Eastern Bloc will begin 2017 with an exhibition on the possibility of the collapse of the World Wide Web. With five works, this exhibition, which takes place from January 19th to February...

Eastern Bloc Tombo-Lab Holiday Fiesta ! After a year of expanding and improving our Lab, the Lab members are throwing a Tombo-Lab Holiday Fiesta to celebrate all that has been accomplished. We will kick off the event with our first DATA : SALON of the year...

POST-MORTEM by Camilo Parra is a multidisciplinary project combining digital collage and found objects that intend to link elements of Martian and Canadian landscapes revealed through a common emblematic color: red. POST-MORTEM explores elements of an...

Camilo Parra is a multidisciplinary Colombian artist who has developed processes and techniques to alter printed digital images - mostly taken from space missions -, in order to create unique paintings. The current project he’s developing during his...

A night of electronic explorations with synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, Buchla expert Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Minimal Wave boss, Veronica Vasicka, and Academy participants. An adventurous electronic composer since the early ’80s, Suzanne Ciani has...

Eastern Bloc is happy to announce the launch of DJ-Q, a new series of weekly events to discover new sounds all throughout the summer season. Come feast and drink while discovering the work of artists and DJs in our newly redone back alley. Each Thursday...

Curator: Eric Mattson Les Transformables v.102 seeks to present media artworks, kinetic and sound installations, as well as audiovisual performances shown in parallel to the installation works.  The works presented share a hybridity of artistic...

First initiated in 2004 by Croatian organization KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Device_art is a triennial international festival exploring the relationship between technology, art, and utility. The project is focused on exploring and...

The artist collective groop*index is pleased to present the second edition of the Ibrida*Pluri festival, a pluridisciplinary event proposing a line-up of local visual and sound artists working together for the first time. For this edition of the festival,...

In_digestion is a showcase of work by students in the Intermedia program at Concordia University, which combines performance, video, and new media arts. The title describes the students’ collective artistic process, even though their individual...