Eastern Bloc

Accompanying Cirio’s public installation, the artist will lead a workshop on political open data (web hacking techniques), which will focus on online transparency activism, how to apply it practically through the use of smart hacks over web platforms,...

Dealing with tactics and techniques of non-visibility, as well as activist strategies towards mass media and propaganda, Mazón Gardoqui’s performance reveals the fragility of public radio communications, through the use of custom made wireless...

Situated between alchemical ritual and lab experiment, with her most recent work “phase space”, Sexton explores human perception in relation to the slow and indifferent time-scale of nature, drawing us through immediacy into contact with the...

"Thermal” is an on-going research project about vulnerability, molecular irritation, high frequency reception, and electromagnetic activity amplification. “Thermal” culminates in the creation of objects, printed matter and sound. The...

Each day, our communications are recorded and analyzed while the gigantic centralized structures of the web track our activities in order to better monitor our profiles. The trap of programmed obsolescence forces us into the grips of a technology that is...

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...