Eastern Bloc

"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...

"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...