Eastern Bloc

“Sila” is a generative multimedia installation about Arctic ice and Greenlandic culture, evoking imagery of shape shifting, melting, falling ice, and climatic cycles. The Greenlandic ice sheet is the second largest ice body in the world. Today,...

This project proposes a reinterpretation of the science-fiction series “Terminator,” whose narrative reveals itself as a veritable almanac, prophetic in nature. In analysing the links between history and fiction, “Terminator Studies”...

In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, “The Pirate Cinema” makes visible the hidden activity and the geography of peer-to-peer file sharing. The project is presented as a control room, which instantly reflects P2P exchanges...

“The Limits of Perception and the Rectangular Frame 1” is a video installation originating from a performance work with performers Caroline Koss and R.Lyon “playing” windows live with a mechanical apparatus. The critical feature in the...

“Crystal Pillars” is a video essay comprised of “real” social encounters Dullaart experienced through his Facebook life. As a voice actor recites a range of social media “sages” — from Mark Zuckerberg to Lil’ B...

The standardization of AV performance: are the presentation contexts in and of themselves being standardized? Or does the artistic content itself lend itself to being normalized? Does there exist a symbiotic relationship between presentation contexts and...

This workshop will explore how to acoustically pickup the electromagnetic emissions (EM) of a computer or a smart phone in the context of a software jam session. Participants will discover which software or user action produces what kind of EM activities...

Out of Canada’s capital, native Producer/DJ crew A Tribe Called Red is making an impact on the global electronic scene with a truly unique sound. Made up of three members – two-time Canadian DMC Champion DJ Shub, DJ NDN and Bear Witness – the...

Through an in depth portrayal of Artkillart’s experiences and trajectory, the presentation attempts to contextualise the label’s independent publishing and production intiatives, seen as mobilisation processes, as reconstructed social spaces, as...

This workshop, through assembly and circuit programming, proposes to explore the process of 8bit image generation using affordable micro-electronic circuits (notably the Propeller circuit, a descendent of the Basic Stamp). Ouellet Fredericks presents a purely...

Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn present a new collection of performative audiovisual works exploring sound-reactive animation, analog and digital sound collage, non-linear storytelling, and hypnotic, post-rave sensibilities.   ...

Layers is an audio/visual performance about perception and memory, with the goal of creating a choreography for a digital crowd. Using audio-video fragments of anonymous pedestrians, Nohista confronts the public with his personal experience of the urban...

Apeiron | Peras is a series of audio and videographics compositions and performances created using a self-built video synthesizer connected in generative feedback loops....

Égregore refers to an energy produced by the desires of many individuals working towards a common goal. This is the starting point of this audio/visual performance that aims to exploit the group movement phenomena. Complex and expressive behaviors are...

Tripping Through Runtime makes the relationships between abstract and physical computer matter audible. Induction coils move around the surface of several laptops and transform the electromagnetic emissions of computer electronics into acoustic signals....