Eastern Bloc

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...

In this workshop participants will use a mesh of point contacts connecting to chalcopyrite and iron pyrite to make crude amplifiers out of rocks. When an electric current is sent through the rocks sporadic noise bursts from the speakers. With some fine-tuning...

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”...

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....