Eastern Bloc

With the growing lack of trust in governments, corporations, and public figures, it appears that hacker groups like Anonymous have become our modern day superheroes, exposing members of the KKK and chasing after cyberbullies. However, with recent data dumps...

Sciences today are intimately related to societal dynamics and evolution. Advances in research and their technical applications raise complex ethical issues that directly concern individuals and communities. In fact, the development of scientific and...

In the context of BPLTC: Cellular Control subRosa art collective member Hyla Willis will give an artist talk to accompany the Cell Track project in the BPLTC: Cellular Control exhibition. After more than a decade of subRosa's humorous and often...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY LISA GAMBLE Eastern Bloc Lab offers this one-day workshop in collaboration with Arsenal.  Participants will discuss the issues of electronic recycling in a fun way. Participants will be invited to make their own musical...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY PIERRE GUIOT-GUILLAIN In the context of the Mode & Design festival Quartier des spectacles, scène M.A.D  Workshop for children 5-8 years old (all ages welcome)   Come make and dress up your own...

WORKSHOPS GIVEN BY ERIN GEE N.B.: 15 participants max  MAX/MSP: SOUND MOVES IMAGE  Participants of this course will be given an introductory-level lesson in how to use basic Max/MSP objects to manipulate the playback of any video on their...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY GUILLAUME VALLÉE & ROB FEULNE 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 BIRCH COOPER (MSHR) In this full-day workshop, taught by Birch Cooper of MSHR, participants will learn how to build a simple synthesizer based on a CMOS NAND Gate Schmitt Trigger Chip and explore various ways in which the user can control...

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...