Eastern Bloc

"Murmurate" is an audio-visual composition performed through the audience's smartphones. Participants simply connect to a specially designed web page, which enables the performers to use their phone as a loudspeaker within the performance....

The opening event of the 8th edition of SIGHT & SOUND : Per Capita will feature the vernissage of all the installations, a performance, and a chance to meet the artists! The festival delves into one of the most rapidly growing social phenomena, that...

The techno-social rhythms of social media and philanthropy are animated in "Planthropy." In this interactive installation, grow lights immerse the viewer in a garden of illuminated hanging planters constructed from clear plastic tubing. The...

“Laborers of Love/LOL” is a crowdsourcing project that explores how sexuality and desire are mediated through new technologies, specifically new models of global, outsourced labor. The final product is a short video mashup where 1970’s...

What if we could receive real-time feedback on our social interactions? Lauren McCarthy developed a system like this for herself using Amazon Mechanical Turk to explore such a phenomenon in the form of a performance. During a month of going on dates with...

“Networked Optimization” is a series of three crowdsourced versions of popular self-help books. Each book contains the full text, which is however invisible, appearing as white text on a white background. The only text that remains readable is...

"Pure Water Touching Clear Sky" is a community garden interwoven with networked electronics. A video feed of the garden is broadcast to twitch.tv, a live-streaming site geared towards competitive video gaming. Many channels on twitch.tv permit...

"Print Wikipedia" is both a utilitarian visualization of the largest accumulation of human knowledge and a poetic gesture towards the futility of the scale of big data. Michael Mandiberg has written software that parses the entirety of the...

In "Daily Paywall," tens of thousands of articles were appropriated from the websites of Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist by hacking their paywall systems. The artist redistributed the pay-per-view articles for free and offered...

Anne-Françoise Jacques and Nicolas Dion Buteau propose a sound intervention project based on the ambiguity between the space of radio broadcasting and that of live performance. The artists will improvise a live performance in public space, using...

Earth Coding Workshop, a one-day workshop by Martin Howse, seeks to explore the relationship between contemporary technology and the Earth, from which one might conceive a new form of land art. Participants will learn, among other things, how to measure...

Drone.2000 is a critical performance by Nicolas Maigret, echoing the recent Western interest for this seemingly ludicrous technology, born of model building and military research. For approximately ten years, the use of UAVs has spurred the spheres of...

In computer science, a register is a construction of electronic switches, transistors, that allows for the storage and transport of data. A shift register is a construction of registers strung end to end in such a way that data is shifted from one to the next...

CPO (Code Practice Oscillator) has long been used to learn Morse code. The electronic workshop Lost poetics of the CPO consists in making a portable electronic instrument inspired by these tools to practice this endangered language, thus re-actualizing a...

Sound-Disk Machines is a self-made electronic musical instrument imagined by Marko Timlin, that converts light fluctuation into sounds. It is composed of acrylic hard-drives, each of a different model, computer fans, phototransistors, analog filters, and...