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    gameboy_ultraF_uk

18/02/2013 / Events

In acquiring a selection of games for their permanent collection, 2012 was the year that MoMA finally sheepishly admitted that, "yes, videogames are indeed art." Thankfully media consumers and inventors throughout the world hadn't bothered to wait around for official recognition and ...
    The New Explorers Guide to Dutch Digital Culture_thumb

20/12/2012 / Advertorial

Virtueel Platform, the Dutch e-culture knowledge institute, has created a perfect startingpoint if you want to explore and work together with innovative media art organisations in The Netherlands. The New Explorers Guide to Dutch Digital Culture is available as free download ...
    clouds_02 copy

28/11/2012 / openFrameworks

RGB-D and "Clouds" needs no introduction on CAN but it is exciting that the project authors, James George and Jonathan Minard have just launched a Kickstarter to complete their interactive film and they need our support! CAN featured the project a number ...
    Binatone Galaxy

26/11/2012 / Environment, Sound

In MP3: The Meaning of a Format, Jonathan Sterne observes "that it is no accident that so many media technologies are built around spinning mechanisms" while pointing to the grooves of a vinyl record and wound-down rolls of audio tape as examples ...
    ETA2012

25/10/2012 / Events

Last Friday saw the latest instalment of FITC's Emerging Technology & Advertising (ETA) event series touch down in Toronto. While labelled rather dryly as a "one day conversation on how technology will impact brands", ETA 2012 brought together an improbably ...
    Golan Levin 02 copy
Golan Levin Following the success of the first Resonate festival that took place in March 2012, Magnetic Field B in collaboration with CreativeApplications.Net and Dom Omladine in Belgrade are pleased to announce the new edition of the festival, taking place 21-23 ...
    QR-code-hotel-room-640x457

10/10/2012 / Events

This past Friday marked the inaugural Ontario Augmented Reality Network (OARN) conference here in Toronto. Headed by Brock University-based Canada Research Chair Kevin Kee, OARN is dedicated to building bridges between university research initiatives, developers and cultural agencies in an ...
    Emily Jacir – Mateiral for a Film

07/09/2012 / News, Theory

Emily Jacir – Mateiral for a Film How might we explain the ascent, pervasiveness and popular appeal of digital art? This is not the question that CUNY Graduate Center associate professor Claire Bishop chose to answer in her recent "Digital Divide" ...
    Enzo Mari_wow copy 2

30/08/2012 / News

CAN is very selective when choosing what goes on the blog and what doesn't. This can sometimes be a difficult task forcing us to make some hard choices. Until now we have used Twitter or Facebook to share those links ...
    Z/Z/Z/ – thumbnail

24/04/2012 / Featured, Other

Z/Z/Z/ is a project hatched by Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag dedicated to "describing the dimension of cultural artifacts that are difficult to explain using natural language". This endeavour deploys a custom visualization workflow to break down footage from film, ...
    embedded-3

02/04/2012 / Javascript, Review

In his mile-a-minute guest spot on Rob Sonic's most recent album Sabotage Gigante, Los Angeles-based Busdriver fires off a verbal salvo about powder burns on a disk drive and generating buzz across the blogosphere. While this kind of technobabble isn't ...
    glitch-momentum-cover-640x480

22/03/2012 / Review

One need only look as far as the upstart GLI.TC/H festival and its vibrant constellation of related practitioners to see that the glitch aesthetic is alive and well. Rosa Menkman has been active as an artist, theorist, organizer and agitator within ...
    daisy_chain_v1_3 copy

20/03/2012 / Linux, Objects

Few days ago BREAKFAST launched Instaprint on Kickstarter. Instaprint is a location-based photo booth that turns Instagrams into physical prints. Set the device to listen for a specific hashtag and/or location and watch as it prints out all Instagrams with ...
    2_LP_table copy

29/11/2011 / Objects

BERG today released details of their concept "printer", one that together with the "Berg Cloud" service behaves like a physical hub to your digital content. They describe it as: BERG Cloud is our technology to move the smarts of products onto ...
    fotb01 copy

26/08/2011 / Events

FOTB is approaching fast and in little over 2 weeks from today you'll get to see some truly inspiring people on the stage. FOTB already is an annual conference in Brighton bringing together some of the biggest names in creative code, flash and digital ...
    02_beta_Zusatzabbildungx

31/05/2011 / Objects

Beta is a fictional prototype by Lukas Franciszkiewicz addressing media influence and the decision making shift from individual to computer. Lukas divides interaction with the computer into three needs: finding and consuming information, the use of communication and mediation, and the ...
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22/04/2011 / Processing

Cascade is the latest project by NYTimes R&D department that allows precise analysis of the structures that underly sharing activity on the web. Initiated by Mark Hansen and working with Jer Thorp and Jake Porway (Data Scientist at the Times) the team ...
    Graffiti Archeology

07/04/2011 / Theory

In 1978 Rem Koolhaas (wiki) published Delirious New York, a "retroactive manifesto" that wildly reframed Manhattan through a rigorous analysis of the street grid, the skyscraper and congestion while excavating the history of the "mythical island". A few years later ...
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