Eastern Bloc

The sharing economy is great, but still relies on the exchange of money. Bartering and trading are timeless alternatives, but sometimes people just don’t get along or don’t have compatible tastes. "Tr(AI)de" is an alternative economy...

The Art Hack Day flash exhibit is the culmination of a 48-hour art marathon. Taking place in Eastern Bloc's gallery spaces and bringing the eight edition of Sight & Sound to a fabulous close, the 40 artists and hackers who had participed in the Art...

Realized as an album, a videogame, and a series of live performances, "Deceptionista" harnesses the relentless unknowability of the real-time internet as raw materials, refracted through ADR's distinct compositional approach. In an immersive...

Chioini performs a new proposal for hybrid electronic music. His many musical influences, styles, genres and practices will course through the performance. The work is a fluid passageway that the music echoes through....

The mutant-polymorphic-spirit-child known only as RAMZi left their home of the deep forests and chose Phoebé Guillemot as their human host many moons past, tasking themselves with the protection of wildlife, the decimation of their enemies and the...

When we think about the sharing economy we tend to conjure Uber, AirBnb and other mega corporations capitalizing on and exploiting needy people under the guise of sharing and caring. Before the rise of this "alternative" economy, however, people...

"Cociclo" offers a participatory experience that unfolds on the streets of the city. Participants in a full-day workshop will build an electronic circuit that detects the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) in the air. By manifesting data in...

How does technology influence the ways people participate in the sharing economy? Who really benefits in the sharing economy? How do technologically facilitated environments contribute to the rise of corporate driven sharing platforms versus digital sharing...

Today we hear mostly about the sharing economy as a new phenomenon, but cooperative economic models have existed for many years, especially in Montreal. What can we learn from these already-existing models? How do these self-run organisations operate? What...

"Cociclo" offers a participatory experience that unfolds on the streets of the city. Participants in a full-day workshop will build an electronic circuit that detects the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) in the air. By manifesting data in...

"Morphist" is an audiovisual performance that studies the notions of form, metamorphosis, and mutation. An abstract mathematical substance is composed of a myriad of particles, the organization of which is modified and disturbed by two...

"Larsen Surf" is a sound system, an oscillating synthesizer within the space, exploiting phenomenon of Positive Feed Back in order to generate complex sound loops. Put together with electric guitars, electric basses, amplifiers, speakers and...

Art Hack Day is an event that dissects the process of artistic creation. For the eight edition of Sight & Sound, Per Capita, AHD explores the sharing economy and other collaborative horizontal models. From September 30th to October 2nd, 40 artists and...

For Sight & Sound, UK experimental sound and performance duo Harmergeddon (Fae and Nathan Harmer) will generate sound based off of Guillaume Vallée and Sonya Stefan's live stream, using a magnetic signal. From their studio in London,...

Through geological matter, "Terra Mater" (performed by artistic duo Crystal ɡʁiʃ) echoes our fragmented landscape to reveal the different waves that pass through our bodies. Minerals, such as galena, iron and copper, have qualities of...