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‘Murmur’ bridges physical and virtual using sound

Silk Pavillion – CNC Deposited Silk & Silkworm Construction at the MIT Media Lab

Light Leaks – Filling a room with projected light

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Geometry, Textures & Shaders with Processing – Tutorial

A Figurine for the Ages – Matthew Plummer-Fernandez’s Venus of Google

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Vanishing Point – UVA redraws perspective with light

Social Networking With The Living Dead – Matt Pearson

‘Forest’ – Musical forest by Marshmallow Laser Feast for STRP Biennale

Glitché – Distort your photos using computer errors and bugs

Do Not Touch – Celebrate the nearing end of the humble computer cursor

Fluidic – Sculpture in Motion by WHITEvoid

Small, Programmable, Wearable and Cheap – Enjoying the ATTiny85 Tutorial

No-one Ever Cried At A Website – Matt Pearson

ScreenLab 0x02 Residency at University of Salford, MediaCityUK - 3 dimensional computer generated art

ScreenLab 0×02 – Exploring new modes of perception

Resonate 2013 – The Best Kind of Noise

basil.js – Computational and generative design using Adobe InDesign

Shedding Light on Squidsoup – A Conversation with Anthony Rowe

Creating spectacles with d3 / United Visual Artists – Special Feature

science fiction

06/11/2012 / Review

“Make It So” – A Compendium of Science Fiction Interfaces

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." To a science fiction fan or film buff, that nugget of dialogue evokes big, sweeping conversations about the more ominous aspects of machine sentience. However, when the ensuing exchange is viewed through the lens ...

11/07/2012 / News

Drone as Metaphor – Interview with artist/director Alex Rivera

There has been no shortage of interest in unmanned aerial vehicles over the past few years. While the legalities of unchecked extrajudicial assassinations is probably not the primary concern of CAN readers, the creative (and critical) potential of semi-autonomous robots is. ...

11/05/2012 / Review

I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford it – Jim Munroe’s “Ghosts With Shit Jobs”

The year is 2040 and it has been two decades since the American economy tanked. North America is a sprawling mega-slum and the population of the West is viewed as a massive, cheap labour force for China and India. This ...