Theory
Free Speech for Whom Panel with Danah Boyd, Adrian Chen, and Zeynep Tufecki
Photo Credit: Aaron Thompson
A strangeness abounds when people are asked to theorize and elucidate something so untethered and rhizomatic as the Internet. At its basic structure, networks connect ...
In 1958, the American physicist William Higinbotham created what is one of the first instances of what we would today call a modern "video game". The game, named Tennis For Two, was built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for their ...
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" ...
Visualizations are created to make data more legible. They are intended to give us a neutral portrait, so to speak, of how collections of data relate to each other. In so doing, they make information accessible to us that would ...
11/07/2012 / News
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. ...
04/07/2012 / Review
The pundit scrum that massed around the New Aesthetic may not have yielded the overarching conversation about digital aesthetics that we needed to have in 2012, but it was the one we got. Fueled by the forward-thinking 'curation' of James ...
Digital culture, for all of its inherent reflexivity, can be surprisingly dumb when it comes to reflecting critically upon itself. However, when it does, ideas mash quickly, and the fast moving meme emerging around The New Aesthetic is a fascinating ...
A significant percentage of video games employ in one way or another the figure of death. The thanatological sub-species of video game representations are practically endless: dismemberment, infection, untreatable wounds, explosion, etc. Players can be eaten, crushed, sliced, diced, quartered, ...
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 ...
Bowyer is a new company by Vadik Marmeladov, Sergey Filippov, a man known as "The Client", and Ilya Kolganov. In this interview we talk through their first collaborations, philosophy, process, commercial projects, and future plans.
"Craftmanship is attention to details. Luxury is ...
(This essay was commissioned by Centre national des arts plastiques for Graphisme en France 2012)
- Edited by Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams -
Technical mastery and innovation are part of the rich history of visual design. The printing press is the quintessential example ...
17/01/2012 / Reference
While the euphoric, dynamic forms of computational artist Marius Watz are probably quite familiar to CAN readers, the artist's curatorial and educational undertakings should definitely not to be overlooked. As an extension of his practice, Marius consistently organizes prescient and ...
09/01/2012 / Theory
Mitchell Whitelaw, #climatedata proposal (2009)
One of the most articulate and accessible voices within the generative art scene is undoubtedly the Canberra-based scholar/practitioner Mitchell Whitelaw. Given his relative (internet) silence over the last year, news of an interview—conducted by Paul Prudence, no less—published in ...
An artist with a background in DJ-ing, electronic music, and visuals for clubs in Japan and now all over the world, Daito Manabe tends to make virtual things real, rather than vice versa. One of the things that I find ...
16/05/2011 / Theory
One of the interesting cultural by-products to have emerged from the American assassination of Osama bin Laden is the public's sudden fascination with situation rooms. As noted by Alexia Tsotsis on TechCrunch last week, the photograph of Obama and his national security ...
09/05/2011 / Arduino, Objects, Processing
The Quantum Parallelograph is an exploratory project by Patrick Stevenson Keating examining the scientific and philosophical ideas surrounding the theory of quantum physics and multiple universes. The device delves into the multiverse, and allows users to glimpse into their "parallel ...
07/02/2011 / Objects, Processing
The Dromolux MA Design Interactions project at the RCA by Ludwig Zeller addresses the possible increase in cognitive performance of future generations. This device is a speed reading trainer that flashes words at a high pace using a strobe light ...
06/02/2011 / Objects, Processing
Currently on display at RCA as part of Design Interactions "work-in-progress" show is the Known Unknowns, a project by Steffen Fiedler and Jonas Loh that questions our relationship to randomness. The project investigates if randomness exists or if it is ...
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