Eastern Bloc

Myriam Bleau presents Autopsy.glass, an audiovisual performance that explores the sonic, visual and symbolic potential of the wine glass. Through live manipulations, sometimes delicate, sometimes violent, the performer builds a musical and luminous...

Elettra is an outdoor radio intervention by Emilie Mouchous, which maintains a close relationship with the landscape (n.3), a guided tour given by an electronic voice and a network of electrical wires. The work is about wandering, a meditation guided by a...

If one considers the anthropology of the senses, of cognitive science or philosophy of the senses, then an interesting approach can be taken to the experience of artworks, concerned with the way that we receive the work through the body. Beyond the five...

Martin Howse presents Substrate, a performance that includes recovery equipment and software systems, as well as electrochemical material. Material is both evidence and self-obscuring; a literal drama of sheer light (waves) and absolute darkness (our...

Occasions_004 is a solo performance by Rie Nakajima, that showcases everyday objects in a complex yet subtle musical composition. Its gestures and physical reactions form an integral part of the visual landscape it creates as a result of its improvised...

In Electromagnetic Dimension, a performance by Erin Sexton, the electromagnetic field extends its influence to all possible scales, creating a continuum from radio waves and chemical bonds to the oscillations of thought — experience itself. We...

Entitled A Brief History of Networked Art Production, this roundtable seeks to explore and analyze productions and practices that use remote transmission as a vehicle and medium of artistic expression. The circulation of data involves several...

Emmanuel Lagrange Paquet, together with Joseph Perrault, present You Never Know, an interactive performance in which visual data sensors convert the “interest points” located in the physical space of the gallery into a performative movement focused...

The making of future forests (young sprouts, web performance & informational landscape); digital (re)transmission of the story of a tree planter / a data sharing forest [hyperreality of a repeated gesture; the planting of pinophytes] “towards new...

Composition in V+ is a sound installation by Nataliya Petkova, with two bare pianos, slimmed down to their own resonance. Laid open to their core – strings suspended in anticipation —, these pianos are subjected to the semi-controlled...

Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite is an installation by Daniel Joliffe that locates the closest Costco, monument or orbiting GPS satellite with a high degree of precision. Drawing from ideas in the fields of psychogeography and geolocation technology,...

In his presentation Towards “Intelligent” Media, Dany Beaupré will retrace the origins of interactive media from a sensorial and cognitive perspective. He will lend observation to the ways in which media, in their physicality, evolve...

Following six years of silence before their 2013 return to the music scene, Dopplereffekt make their triumphant return to the Canadian stage at Sight & Sound 2014! The most mythic and mysterious duo on the electro scene today will plunge us into one...

Inspired by the performative tradition that combines electronic music and video art, in concert, Le Révélateur becomes an audio-visual duo composed of video artist Sabrina Ratté and electronic music composer Roger Tellier-Craig....

Extreme Animals is a performance group composed of Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman. Since 2002, they have performed within a variety of musical and performative contexts (museums, basements, galleries and bars), exploring the delicate relationship between...