Eastern Bloc

In the recent work, “Temple,” the performer has replaced the shaman/priest, and the screen/sound has replaced the performer. Pulling from the cultural dictionary of cinematic micro phrases, a ceremonial edit of symbols and signs is mediated....

R.Lyon’s most recent performance work “The Limits of Perception and the Rectangular Frame 2” concerns the ingestion of foreign objects and the history of noise as it relates to Futurism, the sound of thermonuclear detonation, and the...

To scan through a radio dial is to read mass culture’s unwitting diary. “Private Language,” the audio-visual duo of Melissa F. Clarke and Nat Roe, meshes audio collages produced by live radio transmissions with streaming Internet video...

”Snuff” is a workshop about wireless telecommunications, network traffic, and data corruption. Participants will create an electronic device that amplifies wireless Internet traffic, Bluetooth data transfer, mobile phones, microwaves and other...

Drawing inspiration from the field of bioacoustics as well as the study of sonic environments in urban planning, Bates’ performance proposes a real-time collection and re-diffusion of sounds and vibrations from in and around the performance venue. These...

“System Introspection” can be understood as a self-observing machine. This performance proposes a physical experiencing of numerical data and its multiple languages, formats and content. It translates concretely as binary code written on a computer...

"Possession Trance” is an ongoing live performance project exploring the crossover between cybernetics, underground rave music and (oc)cult rituals. High-powered stroboscopic light is used to control home built light-sensitive hardware leading to...

The neutral appearance of platforms such as Google, that is, their clean and tidy landing pages devoid of advertisements, make them appear as harmless research tools for browsing the Net. Their true opposite nature is, however, quickly revealed through...

“Street Ghosts” is a project that takes images and information from Google Street View as its source. Printing and adhering life-sized pictures of people found on Google Street View at the precise spots where they appear online, “Street...

“Nervous News” is a practice in manipulating live online content as Dullaart appropriates displays from news sites — usually graphically attractive — to shiver with fear. By letting the webpage tremble, the news becomes hard to read but...

“Sila” is a generative multimedia installation about Arctic ice and Greenlandic culture, evoking imagery of shape shifting, melting, falling ice, and climatic cycles. The Greenlandic ice sheet is the second largest ice body in the world. Today,...

This project proposes a reinterpretation of the science-fiction series “Terminator,” whose narrative reveals itself as a veritable almanac, prophetic in nature. In analysing the links between history and fiction, “Terminator Studies”...

In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, “The Pirate Cinema” makes visible the hidden activity and the geography of peer-to-peer file sharing. The project is presented as a control room, which instantly reflects P2P exchanges...

“The Limits of Perception and the Rectangular Frame 1” is a video installation originating from a performance work with performers Caroline Koss and R.Lyon “playing” windows live with a mechanical apparatus. The critical feature in the...

“Crystal Pillars” is a video essay comprised of “real” social encounters Dullaart experienced through his Facebook life. As a voice actor recites a range of social media “sages” — from Mark Zuckerberg to Lil’ B...