Eastern Bloc

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...

Arcángelo Constantini’s performance Phonotube uses uncommon light instruments and sound sequencers, made up of fluorescent tubes and strips of leds, as light sources. The tubes have offset negatives with printed sound patterns, which spin at...

Toy robots, ink cartridges, turntables, papers, microphones, arcade game controllers, field recordings, nuts, bolts, screws, and code: disparate objects brought together in a new kind of symphony. Divorced from their typical functions, these...

In this talk, Coleman looks at the event of living with media technologies and deep modes of mediation in the everyday experience of ubiquitous computing, wearable technology, and smart objects. She suggests that these are the science fictions one creates...

After consumerism collapses, a reapropriation of our electronic devices and our human bodies becomes necessary. A virus has attacked a whole new generation computers, smartphones, tablets, with most features becoming unusable. This series of four...

Sibyl of Cumae was an ancient Greek prophetess who was visited by pilgrims from the furthest reaches of civilization. Her prophecies, written on oak leaves in a sacred cave, sent their recipients into a mystical rapture, in which nature spirits and...

Pulsu(m) Plantae V.2 makes plants sing! The project empirically analyzes the mechanisms whereby plants communicate with one another and the ways in which their own biological processes are a manifestation of communication, seemingly inaccessible to our senses....

Field of Grooves is an interactive installation comprised of a wooden structure outfitted with turntables and electronic devices. When the spectator/participant bites down on a small piece of acrylic, s/he will feel the vibrations of the turntable directly in...

Crystalline Domain is a body of installation works where Sexton involves crystallization with custom electronics, creating a tactile link with matter and energy through electro-chemical improvisation. In the studio she grew crystals from salt, sugar, borax,...

The Fisher-Price Nursery Monitor is a low watt household radio set that was commercially sold throughout North America in the early 1980s. It was intended to "let parents be in two places at once" by transmitting the sounds emanating from the baby...

Data is no longer simply a part of our daily lives; it is fast becoming our currency, literally, figuratively and socially. We produce and consume data at an unprecedented rate; we use data to mediate our transactions and our relationships; we fight for data...