Eastern Bloc

SOCHI SNOW CLUB DEAD is a dramatized business meeting. The scene: an elite, reserved room. Business ideas for a concept restaurant are being thrown around. A young woman serves finger food. Ambition and the VIP dream are in the air. The audiovisual...

The apparatus connecting the military, industry, and academia has been at the core of technological advancements since before the Second World War. From early radio – then computer – hardware, to weaponry, the Internet, and wearable tech, the...

This conference will consist in a guided trip back and forth in time which promises to relate all the following subjects: Juan Atkins, Sun Ra, Parliament, Funkadelic, Kraftwerk, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the city of Detroit, Robotics, Robocop, the slave...

PsXXYborg is a game art exploration of the ironic cyborg theory presented by Donna Haraway in her seminal 1985 essay “A Cyborg Manifesto.” PsXXYborg ironically represents the inherent structures of power that mediate our individual moments of...

Transnoise & Quimera Rosa formally invite you to a cyborg coven, where symbols, bodies, objects, signs and environments will be manipulated in order to create and transform our world. In order to escape restrictive normative ideologies of gender, the...

AKLR 2.0 is an ongoing research project and an audiovisual staged performance which aims to develop a live akelarre cyborg. The performance studies the potential of witchcraft in a biopower era. ALKR 2.0 is a science-fiction world where plants sing,...

It is impossible to speculate about the future without thinking about how our bodies and other natural organisms will be affected. As we move closer towards hybrid, integrated systems, what can recent theories – such as Donna Haraway’s Cyborg...

VideoVideoJam is an experimental game jam bringing together film, video, animation, and comic artists to make multi-screen experimental FMV (full-motion video) games using custom-built tools as an introduction to DIY game-making. VVJ is a jam that uses...

For this workshop, the artist asks that participators bring their own snack food: anything that makes noise when chewed. Do something your parents said never to do: eat with your mouth open! Participants will focus on the mouth and amplify the sounds of...

In Yan Jun’s performance, he will set up a complex feedback system using speakers, microphones, a mixer and a performing artist, while also integrating the space, the artist’s position and the movements of the audience. The performance is...

UKI Viral Love is the sequel to Shu Lea Cheang’s acclaimed cyberpunk movie I.K.U., which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000. Conceived in two parts—both viral performance and game—the film tells the story of coders working...

Bio-Box is an interface that uses biofeedback to establish audio communications between different living systems (mosses and algae). The interface takes a hybridized format, at once live performance and laboratory. The bio-box generates micro-voltage from...

Binaries are at the core of dystopian literature: good/evil, protagonist/antagonist, male/female. In this discussion, panelists Adrienne Maree Brown – sci-fi writer and Octavia Butler scholar, Paula Pin and Maria Mitsopoulou – members of the...

In the Disco Robots workshop, artists and participants will work together to create servo-motor based analog walking robots and transform them into little dancing machines! You will have the opportunity to design and personalize your own disco-robot...

During this performance, Christian Faubel, Tina Tonagel, and Ralf Schreiber will combine overhead projectors with kinetic objects, autonomous robots, solar-powered machines, analog synthesizers and other constructed objects to create a live-stream of images...