Eastern Bloc

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...

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...