Eastern Bloc

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ANNIE WAN Cosmic Gun, the device art, is an amateur, low-cost astronomy project that enables the general public to be connected momentarily with cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System. The metaphor of contacting cosmic rays is...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY JOHNNY FOREVER & GAMBLETRON In collaboration with Artspace, Peterborough, ON  Narcissus Redeemed is a workshop for performance and media artists, selfie queens, vloggers, and other generators of virtual selves. Visual artist...

WORKSHOPS GIVEN BY ISMAIL NEGM No matter what your field of interest, there's a good chance learning to code in Python will bring you valuable new forms of expression.  Visual arts? Use the Blender API to generate 3D art programatically or...

FUNERAL PARLOUR / EMBALM YOUR DIGITAL DATA Have you ever thought of erasing your entire digital footprint? All those selfies, archived emails, tweets, likes, check-ins, late night chat sessions... We never really know what to do with our old storage...

WORKSHOPS GIVEN BY ANGELEAU GABEREAU In this 4 part series, Angela Gabereau will teach the basic fundamentals of computer programming using the popular controller Arduino, ranging from binary mathematics to object-oriented programming. The participants...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY SANTIAGO LEAL Warning! max 12 participants  As part of the Medellin-Montreal residency exchange, Eastern Bloc's Colombian artist in residence, Santiago Leal will present the many ways to build 3D models for printing purposes....

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY PETER VAN HAAFTEN Warning! max 12 participants Participants who have confirmed their attendance will receive a message with more information regarding the material requirements. Composers have experimented with formal processes in...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY APO33 (JENNY PICKET AND JULIEN OTTAVI) Maximimum number of participants: 15  Free but please rsvp: rsvp@htmlles.net APO33 invites you to explore networked audio tools and live streaming via the software that they have...

Colombian Residency Exchange MADE IN CANADA 1.0 – FROM SEA TO SEA Eastern Bloc, for the first time, has reached an agreement with the city of Medellin, in Columbia, for a residency exchange. We are proud to announce that we will be welcoming...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ERIN SEXTON Warning! max 10 participants  Equipment is provided. Matter and energy are changing states continually, extending through multiple dimensions that we are just discovering how to perceive. By mixing solid-state...

Vessels :: Intro is a robotic installation consisting of large groups of autonomous water vehicles. The robotic agents interact with each other and their environment to form a simple ecosystem. Their collective, emergent behaviour resembles the social...

SOUNDING THE CITY  In the context of Eastern Bloc's Open Residency program, the centre has invited Jan Reimer and Max Stein to occupy the lab over the 2014 summer months. They will work on developing 'Sounding the City', a series of portable...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY BRENDAN MATKIN Level: Intermediate *Kits are provided.  This workshop will focus on the design, construction, and applications of miniature, deployable, interactive systems based on the Atmel ATtiny84 microcontroller. It will be...

BREEZY PLAZA The work of Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik exists in a sculptural sphere carrying with it the influences of a digital means of production. In Breezy Plaza, produced in residency at Eastern Bloc, Loeppky-Kolesnik creates an installation that is cinematic...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY STEPHANIE CASTONGUAY Using different found materials - such as piezos and RCA cables, this workshop seeks to initiate the participants to electronics through the confection of contact microphones and binaural microphones, as well as a...