Eastern Bloc

We will be taking off for the months of June and July and we will return this August better than ever! We can't wait to announce our new programming for 2019-2020 including: new workshops, exhibitions, a crossed residency with Château...

We will be taking off for the months of June and July and we will return this August better than ever! We can't wait to announce our new programming for 2018-2019 including workshops and our 10th Anniversary Exhibition!  To mark the...

Eastern Bloc invites all members and aspiring members to join us in our Annual General Assembly. Will review EB’s activities of the past year, and together share ideas about Eastern Bloc’s (very exciting) future and the 10th anniversary...

For Children In a world where the line between what’s real and what’s virtual has disappeared, what part of what makes us human do we want to keep? Through an interactive installation, DELETE will ask this question to its young...

Full sonic exploration at EASTERN BLOC on October 17th with Martín Rodríguez, the duo of Érick d'Orion and Martin Tétreault, and a look at the Wave Field Synthesis system developed at EMPAC. 1948 (2016)...

The Montréal Contemporary Music Lab (MCML) is a 10-day performance and creation workshop exploring, celebrating, and creating bonds between performers, composers, sound artists and improvisers engaged in the act of creating new music. Formed in 2011...

On March 23, 2012 BATS (Better Alternative Trading System) released a sell algorithm listing its own stocks for sale. The initial price at 11:14:18.436ms was $15.25, but rapidly dropped to $0.0002 in 1.25 seconds, causing trading to halt due to the dramatic...

Eastern Bloc presents the second segment of our 2015-2016 three-part cycle of exhibitions and activities, BPLTC, on the general theme of biopolitics. This cycle is divided into three segments: Cellular Control, Identity Control, and Food Control. The...

THIRD RADIO INTERVENTION "Signaux", Emilie Mouchous Performance-intervention at Eastern Bloc "Signaux" is a time for listening to the waves that surround us, pierce through us, embrace us; it is a tribute to the magic of...

W.U.R.M. : Escape from a Dying Star, presented by Peter Van Haaften, is a 2-player immersive space survival game. Humanity has persisted through millennia on solar collection techniques and atomic reconfiguration technology, but none of this can protect us...

SECOND RADIO INTERVENTION "Wagons", Nicolas Dion & Anne-Françoise Jacques Performance-intervention at Parc du Premier Chemin de Fer, Saint-Henri The artists propose a sound intervention project based on the ambiguity between the...

This fall, Eastern Bloc will be launching a new project, PirateBlocRadio: In Situ, a series of five radio performances/interventions in public space.  During the 2014 edition of Sight & Sound, artists Alejo Duque and Sylvain Le Beux installed in...

Eastern Bloc introduces the first segment of our 2015-2016 three-part cycle of exhibitions and activities, BPLTC, on the general theme of biopolitics. This cycle is divided into three segments: Cellular Control, Identity Control and Food Control. The...

Eastern Bloc is sending emerging Canadian and Québécois digital artists to Zagreb, Croatia, for the upcoming Device_art Triennial. True to its mission to support emerging Canadian digital artists, Eastern Bloc has selected five up-and-coming...

Curator: Eric Mattson La Marche (est haute) is a convivial exhibit, open to the general public, which closes off the eponymous series that took place during the spring of 2015 and brought together a series of ten artistic interventions in the urban...