Eastern Bloc

The workshop is full. Thank you!  Description: This workshop is based on a practical and experimental approach to electronics and is specifically created for artists and the general public who are interested in electronics. Participants will learn...

The workshop is full. Thank you ! Description:  This workshop will focus on introducing live coding: a review of the prehistory of live coding as well as a tour of important, diverse musical projects. Participants will create their own SynthDef and...

Description :  A two part workshop on electroacoustic composition for new media art in “Pure Data”. Pure Data is an open source, cross-platform data flow programming language primarily suited for the generation of real-time sound and music....

This workshop will cover different methods of homemade fabrication of printed circuit boards and explain how to make your own circuit boards with readily available tools. During the workshop, the participants will benefit from the instructors’ experience...

During this workshop, participants will create a small environmental sound  instrument, which will subsequently be used during a group walk in and around the streets of Montreal. Everyone will leave with their own box containing an amplified solar panel....

In this workshop, participants will create their first genetically modified organism. They will be doing a plasmid transformation, which involves introducing a foreign piece of DNA to a bacterial cell. The result is a bacteria that will have a new colour (red,...

Agent-based art is an approach to new media art that use autonomous systems such as robots, virtual characters, chatbots, artificial life systems, generative videos, and other artificial devices and programs, as a means to build aesthetic...

A workshop specifically created for artists and the general public who are interested in electronics. THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW SOLD-OUT ! Participants will learn the basics of electronic circuits and apply their acquired skills in a practical and creative...

This workshop will cover a brief history of video art related to analog video and glitch techniques, leading to a short overview of local analog artists. The artists will present their own artistic practical process. Those attending will be able to acquire...

Twine is an accessible tool for creating text-based games with branching narratives. In this three-hour workshop, participants will begin with a discussion about intimacy and care in the context of games and game culture. The facilitator,...

The music curator of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), Argeo Ascani, lead audio engineer at EMPAC Todd Vos and audio engineer Jeff Svatek are coming to...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ISMAIL NEGM  MUTABLE-INSTRUMENTS releases both open hardware and source for its modules with the intention of encouraging collaboration and contributions from the hardware and software hacker community. This advanced workshop is...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY PIPO PIERRE-LOUIS & GRÉGORY PERRIN This workshop will cover different methods of homemade fabrication of printed circuit boards and explain how to make your own circuit boards with readily available tools. During the...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY GUILLAUME VALLÉE & ROB FEULNER This workshop will cover a brief history of video art related to analog video and glitch techniques, leading to a short overview of local analog artists. The artists will present their own...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY PETER VAN HAAFTEN This workshop in three parts will introduce artists to the Raspoberry Pi and PureData as tools for new media creation. Raspberry Pi is a low cost computer that is the size of a credit card, which can be programmed with...