Eastern Bloc

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...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ALICE JARRY  In the context of the winter exhibit TRAILMIX  During this workshop, participants will first be introduced to the installation V2Récurrences and will be invited to experiment with silkscreen printing...

WORKSHOPS GIVEN BY STEPHAN SCHULZ Stephan Schulz and Eastern Bloc would like to help your kids understand the basic concepts of programming (coding) as it is becoming more and more ubiquitous in our everyday interactions with technology. Your children play...

SWARMING EMOTIONAL PIANOS Swarming Emotional Pianos is a robotic performance originating in human emotions. An actor performs, their body covered in sensors. The actor imagines and thinks; physiological signals, such as respiration, sweat, cardiac and neural...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ALICE JARRY In the context of the winter exhibit TRAILMIX  During this two-part workshop, participants will first be introduced to the installation V2Récurrences and will be invited to experiment with...

WORKSHOP GIVEN BY ALEXANDRE CASTONGUAY AND THOMAS OUELLET FREDERICKS Project conceived in collaboration with Mariangela Aponte Nunez Inspired by the practice of tactical media that intervenes in the urban fabric, the Agit P.O.V. (Petit Objet de Vélo...

WORKSHOPS 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...

In the context of the exhibit *~._.:*jEnNiFeR X JeNniFeR*:.~, the two artists Jennifer Chan and Jennifer Cherniack will be participating in a moderated discussion about their work, gender and performativity, nostalgia in net art, dominant tropes in online...