Sight & Sound Audio/Visual + New Media Festival on May 11-17 in Montreal

Posted on May 11, 2011

Sight & Sound is an annual festival aimed at bringing together Canadian and international New Media artists. North-end art galleries Eastern Bloc (7240 Clark) and Espace Project (353 Villeray) will host the May 11-17 event, which showcases live A/V performance, sound and video design, A/V installations and interactive art.

This year’s Sight and Sound features more than twenty installations, lectures and performances spread over 7 days. Here’s a glimpse of the festival proceedings:

May 11

Eastern Bloc
19:30 – 21:30: Shot on Blood | Oliver Hockenhull (Exterior Projection) (on display nightly until May 13)
20:00 – 22:00: Bowly + vj Chocobeets

Installations
Colonie | Zohar Kfir
Ground | Emmanuel Madan, with Simon Guilbault
Symbiotic Shadow System | David Han + Frank Tsonis (On display nightly until May 17)

Espace projet
Installations
Domaines | Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière
muu | Nelly-Ève Rajotte (On display nightly until May 17)

May 12

Eastern Bloc
20:00 – 22:00: Coup d’éclats | Danny Perreault + Manuel Chantre +
Guillaume Bourassa + Sébastien Gravel + [victortronic] (A/V performances) + Meat Parade (set audio) (Also May 13)

May 13

Espace projet
17:00 – 19:00: Vernissage

May 14

Eastern Bloc
20:00 – 22:00: 60fps | Panoptique
Macro-Static | Yann Leguay + Jérôme Fino
Photosonicneurokineasthography | Botborg
Subconscious Download | Error (A/V performances, co-presentation with Visionsonic)

May 15

Eastern Bloc
20:00 – 22:00: Abri | David Drury
Matière(s) égarée(s) | Pierre-Marc Beaudoin + David Manseau
muu | Nelly-Ève Rajotte (A/V performances)

May 16

Eastern Bloc
19:00: Panel discussion with Emmanuel Madan + Alexandre Castonguay + Darsha Hewitt

May 17

Eastern Bloc
19:00: Panel discussion with Danny Perreault + Guillaume Bourassa