Eastern Bloc

Michael Montanaro is dedicated to the envisioning, design, and creation of projects focused on evolving innovative ways in which new technologies are used to enhance the interactive experience. A trans-disciplinary artist, he is best known for his work in the...

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Allahyari was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work...

MSHR is the art collective of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo meshes digital sculpture, analog electronics, and ceremonial performance to create the meta-form that is their collaborative practice. MSHR emerged from the larger collective Oregon Painting...

After having won the first edition of MusiquePlus' VJ competition, Nabi-Alexandre Chartier began his career there at the age of 17. Between 1999 and 2005, he hosted the show "Plus sur Commande" in which he interviewed hundreds of...

Nicolas Nova is an ethnographer and design researcher, working both as a Professor at the Geneva School of Arts and Design (HEAD) and as co-founder of The Near Future Laboratory, a research organization based in Europe and California. His work focuses on...

Nima Esmailpour is an art historian and educator based in Montreal. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a MA in Art & Politics and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. His research...

Dr. Orit Halpern is a Strategic Hire in Interactive Theory and Design and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design and art...

Pamela Tudge is a food scholar, teacher, activist, and critical designer whose work focuses on the intersections between critical design, food, and social change. Originally from British Columbia, she is currently a part-time lecturer in Concordia’s Fine...

Peter Moosgaard lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Withna Masters in Digital Arts (2012), he first studied Philosophy and Linguistics, later Visual Media at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, under Prof. Peter Weibel. He is a member of the...

Peter Van Haaften is a composer and transdisciplinary artist based in Montréal (Québec). Van Haaften creates live performances, interactive installations, and media for speakers. His original and collaborative projects have been included at the...

Keynote of the festival  Rasheedah Phillips is the Managing Attorney of the Housing unit at Community Legal Services, a mother, writer, the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, the co-creator of Black Quantum Futurism multimedia arts collective, and a...

RYBN.ORG is an extra-disciplinary artistic research platform, created in 1999. RYBN.ORG leads investigations in the realms of high-frequency economics and information technologies, writing esoteric datamining algorithms, inserting suicidal trading machines...

Born in Toronto, Stéphane Degoutin is an artist, writer, and researcher who lives and works in Paris. He conceives art installations, theoretical texts, and explores the notion of place. His main research interests are mankind after man, the...

SUSY.TECHNOLOGY is a collective dedicated to the research and creation of audio-visual art engaging with the futurity of interactive media, cyberculture and extended reality.  ...

Tatev Yesayan is a product designer with a particular interest in lighting and public spaces. Her work is often characterized by simple or complex geometric systems that also create the structural mechanics of the design object. She likes to explore the...