Eastern Bloc

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...

The crystal forming robots are a physical simulation of a growth process, similar to the growth of crystal structures. Each robot operates autonomously and is driven by the light of the overhead projector. When a robot has collected enough energy, it is all...

Turntablism is the art of manipulating recorded sound using direct drive turntables. Simple harmonic motion is a type of periodic motion used in physics where the restoring force is directly proportional to the displacement. Inspired by the concept of a...

Bradford Kessler uses many techniques in his absurd video works including animation, green screen, digital sculpture software and found movie clips to cross the aesthetics of science fiction movies and instructional videos. In Saving the Planet (2011),...

Micro-FM is an open space workshop for the study of radio-electric waves in a wide range spectrum. From Micro-FM to net.radio, passing over on satellite transmissions, radio control flying devices, and local radio scanning. Participants will build a micro-FM...

PirateBlockRadio is the object of Duque’s residency in the Eastern Bloc Lab. Setting up a station functioning as an open channel or laboratory, he will transform free radio waves into a site of experimentation. Duque, operating out of the Lab, will pair...

Astrovandalistas invites you to occupy their server! Astrovandalistas is giving a workshop where participants will create a collective archive of recent social movements from data floating on the internet, and turn it into a physical documentarial experience,...

Panelists: Jennifer Chan, Vincent Chevalier, Emilie Gervais, Heather Dewey-Hagborg Moderator: Michelle Lacombe  This year’s edition of Sight & Sound aims to explore black markets in a global sense. While the series of workshops and...

This workshop will explore the concept of critical making and how handmade books can function as an alternate mode of academic publishing. Led by Garnet Hertz (University of California Irvine / Art Center), the workshop will produce an additional booklet to...

"Ohm IV" is the most recent iteration of a series of site-specific performance environments developed by Future Archaeology. While spanning multiple exhibition contexts including gallery, cinema and theatre, works in the OHM series share a common...

Sex, drugs, money laundering, guns, gambling, Identity theft. This workshop will explore the use of natural language processing tools to analyze the goods, products and services available on online black markets, trying to reveal a faithful cartography of the...

Following Noxious Sector’s participatory performance on the 18th, the members of the collective host a workshop, which will explore and demonstrate techniques for trance induction. This will include discussions of musical strategies, creation of...

“Nightmare Inductions” uses self-hypnosis techniques to lead audience members on a guided meditation in which their teeth fall out. Trance induction sound techniques and ghost hunting equipment will provide a soundtrack for the experience alongside...