Presented in honour of InterAccess’s 40th anniversary this exhibition, curated by Shauna Jean Doherty, celebrates Telidon, the Canadian-made technology that inspired the artists who founded InterAccess in 1983.
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Call for Submissions: CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival
CURRENTS New Media is now accepting submissions for their 2024 Art and Technology Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Web – A deterministic universe
Web is a fully on-chain generative cross-linked network of 1000 webpages on Ethereum mainnet. All pages and the links between them are generated and form a deterministic universe.
Persistence of Vision – Subverting civil infrastructure
Persistence of Vision is a public installation that adapts recognisable civil infrastructure into an interactive experience. The project is a reaction to our current state of surveillance, be it self initiated or passive, by revealing an often overlooked or ignored component of our city, and plays on many emerging technologies that are fast embedded into our daily lives, such as AI and computer vision.
Zed: Automata-Interactive Drawing Installation
Created at Goldsmiths (University of London) for the degree show project of MA computational Art, Zed is a real-time drawing device centred around the character Zed, intended to evoke a sense of sacredness akin to a religious ritual.
The Ambient Machine – Yuri Suzuki
Created by Yuri Suzuki in partnership with Pentagram Design, and currently available for purchase from E&Y, The Ambient Machine is a 32 toggle switch sequencer with a variety of sounds and music to design your own background ambience.
Kazokutchi – New social formats
Families of digital artificial lives that inhabit (micro-robotic) houses and reproduce on the blockchain.
MetaTouch – Tactile cabinet of curiosities
MetaTouch is an XR installation exploring virtual touch in which participants are provided with multisensory feedback in response to their interactions with a series of tactile modules.
Unpredictable Atmosphere at 24GHz
Unpredictable atmosphere is a research project that investigates a thin and unstable layer above the ground where data, both transmitted and collected, acquire new dimensions in an invisible landscape of conflict.
Luciferins – an interactive installation inspired by invisible networks of bioluminescent fish and internet network traffic
Luciferins—inspired by bioluminescent fish and the plethora of invisible network traffic that surrounds us—is an interactive environment of hanging fiber structures, filling a 15 x 15 foot space.
Cold Call – Time Theft as Avoided Emissions
Cold Call: Time Theft as Avoided Emissions is an unconventional carbon offsetting scheme that draws on strategies of worker sabotage and applies them in the context of high emission companies in the fossil fuel industry.
Narratron – Shadow play with a storytelling AI
Narratron is an interactive projector that augments hand shadow puppetry with AI-generated storytelling. Designed for all ages, it transforms traditional physical shadow plays into an immersive and phygital storytelling experience.
Apocryph – A new (AI) version of the “Book of Hours”
Six centuries later, the learning algorithm Stylegan2 follow the heritage of medieval copyist monks and creates a new version of the “Book of hours”, an apocryphal work.
VBox – AI-powered radio for musical exploration
Created by Danning Liang and Artem Laptiev at the MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, VBox is an AI-powered radio for musical exploration and group vibrations. Through the Large Language Model, VBox captures the various abstracted understandings of the song played in the form of texts and lets you travel down one of these rabbit holes to find more of what is hard to describe.
Vector Festival 2023: Shadow Work
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices.
A knot in motion: on the accident of rain
Build upon the fiction of a knot tied between the two tropical lines along the Atlantic forest in Jundiaí (BR) and the tropical desert in El Kharja oasis (EG), the project gathers and ties together voices from artists based within the tropics speaking with and about the tropical rain through their local perspectives.
KRILLER – Globally synced broadcast of synth-soaked ambient software
KRILLER is an eternally looping, seven day, globally synced audio-visual broadcast of synth soaked ambient software (online) experience. The weeklong broadcast is divided into 6300 software art ‘cassettes’, each bound to a specific moment of time during the week, minted by its fabricator, and seamlessly fusing with its predecessor and successor to form audiovisual duets and mashups.
Paragraphica – Context to image (AI) camera
Paragraphica is a camera that utilizes location data and AI to visualize a “photo” of a specific place and moment. The camera exists both as a physical prototype and an online camera that you can try.
Equilibrium Morphologies – Responsive Modeling Framework for the Form-Finding of Membrane Structures
‘Equilibrium Morphologies’ investigates how complex articulated membrane structures can be erected and tensioned through emergent behaviours of interacting forces and explore multiple states of equilibrium.
Blind Camera – Point-and-shoot sound to image
Blind Camera is an AI powered device that generates pictures from sound instead of light while preserving the experience of using a point-and-shoot camera.
Perfect Behaviours –A collective exhibition on the algorithmic rewriting of human behaviours
Serena Cangiano reviews “Perfect Behaviours – life redesigned by the algorithm” curated by Giorgio Olivero and on show in Turin, Italy’s OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni.
Adnose – Anosmia and (ML) smell prediction
dnose is an interactive sculpture in the shape of a nose created at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) which combines image recognition and machine learning using a Raspberry Pi to predict the smell of any object placed underneath it.
Live set CINEMA BLACKBOX by Kyoka and Shohei Fujimoto
In this project, the human brain, which is like a black box, is captured objectively as an unknown structure and visualized through sound and visual
Trending in the Multiverse – What if authorship became obsolete?
Created by Moniker, Trending in the Multiverse explores novel possibilities of content production. Awestruck by the latest iteration of AI systems that are both fascinating and worrying, the project asks us to reconsider our concepts of authorship, ownership, and creativity.
Sun Thinking – First exhibition on the Solar Protocol network
Sun Thinking is an online group show that brings together artists and writers to explore some of the themes and questions central to the Solar Protocol.
Heavens – A myth, survivalist dream, and the end of (this) history
Heavens is a moving-image work and installation created using planetarium projection methods to overlay planetary footage with deep sea imagery, looking at deep space to see deep into the ocean.
Surrogate – Bodily autonomy at the age of rapidly developing reproductive technologies
Surrogate is a body of work centred around issues of reproductive technology and bodily autonomy comprised of a series of physical and performative inputs and outputs to engage and provoke conversations about the topic.
Latent Imaging and Imagining – Queer mode of accessing childhood memories
Latent Imaging and Imagining is part of an autoethnographic artistic research study to explore the concept of chrononormativity through an inverted perspective of nonconforming and how to negotiate a careful and queer mode of accessing childhood memories.
Elisava and IAM Open a Pioneering Master Program on Design for Responsible AI
Elisava has partnered with the creative research lab IAM to launch a new Master in Design for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a part-time and low residency programme that brings together designers, strategists, trend researchers, futurists, new media artists, cultural producers, journalists and creative technologists to tackle precisely these kinds of questions.
An Ephemeral Ritual: Interview with Amay Kataria
In this interview with Nils-Thomas Økland from AIR Sandnes, Kataria dives into how this traditional practice inspired him to create an audio-visual performance.
