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Garden of Forking Paths – Thermochromic canvas of a dendritic maze
Garden of Forking Paths is an installation comprised of a matrix of custom printed circuit boards that make use of the physical connection between electrical resistance and heat.
Deriva Arcana + Correo Electrónico + Xiaomi Porno – Horizontal Composition: Bridging Physical and Digital Performance
This collaboration explores the idea of horizontal composition, where every discipline has equal input as to the design of the set, level of energy and overall creative direction. Technology is used to bridge disciplines, so ideas can be reached c...
Centrum Par — A living interface for relational psychology and dynamics
Centrum Par is a website that functions as a living, breathing interface where large, abstract digital paintings—rendered with the rich textures of clay, pigment, and organic filaments—exist in a constant state of subtle flux.
Creative Tech New York 2025 – October 15
On October 15, creative technologists, innovators, and creative professionals will convene in New York to connect with likeminded professionals, all with the shared goal of understanding the future of creative technology.
Psychotherapy Warsaw – An unfolding interface
Created by Mikołaj Czyż, a psychotherapist practicing in Warsaw, the project is an interface, driven by a live generative system, to visualy evoke core principles of the therapeutic practice.
Plant Futures – Data‑driven flora morphologies
Plant Futures imagines how a single flower might evolve in response to climate change between 2023 and 2100—and invites us to reflect on the complex, long-term impacts of our warming world.
Waluigi’s Purgatory – Ramification and redemption of an AI
Waluigi's Purgatory is an interactive performance set in a 3D theatre simulated in real-time. The performance tells the story of an AI called 'W.' finding itself in a purgatory for AIs that cheated during their training.
Behind the Screens – Swipe, twist, and zoom
A series of works by Ludwig Dressler where he explores the transformative power of digital technologies – both on the individual and on society. The focus here is on the three most important smartphone gestures – swipe, twist, and zoom – as symbol...
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You – Material realities of (AI) computation
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You explores the energy consumption of AI through the medium of heat. The self-referencing system is prompted and the resulting heat from the computation slowly melts and erodes the candle in the physical world.
Raw.Space – An experimental ecosystem for relational futures
Raw.Space is a living digital ecosystem exploring relationality, interdependence, and alternative ways of being. Instead of a linear website, it unfolds as an open landscape of interconnected fields.
Piel – Human skin as a living map
Piel is a web-art project that treats human skin as a living map. It uses ChatGPT for image generation to create a sequence of portraits depicting aging, and custom WebGL shaders for rendering mouse effects in real-time.
The End of the Free Internet – Martin Andree in Conversation
On Friday 29th August, Prof. Dr. Martin Andree, media studies professor at the University of Cologne, will join 'in conversation' session with Lukas Höh at Mülheimer Literature Club, Cologne (DE).
SmellNet – The first AI model of real-world smells
Smell is hard, genetic, and complex, but this hasn't stopped a group of researchers as MIT Media Labs' Multisensory Intelligence Group to train AI to perceive smell like humans can.
What Can a Cell Remember?
Claire writes for Quanta Magazine about a small but group of neuroscientists exploring whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is.
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algorithmAlgorithm is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation – Wikipedia.
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artificial-intelligenceArtificial Intelligence describes a field that develops and studies methods and software which enable machines to perceive their environment and uses learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals – Wikipedia.
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automationAutomation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines – Wikipedia.
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cameraA camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film – Wikipedia.
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data-visualisationData visualisation is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the graphic (or physical) representation of data.
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environmentEnvironment, or built world, refers to the human-made environment that provides the setting for activity, ranging in scale from installations to buildings.
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filmA film is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
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generativeThe term 'Generative' describes a process, in whole or in part, that is created using an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally non-human and can independently determine features that would otherwise require decisions made by the author/creator.
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installationInstallation describes large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time.
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interactiveThe term 'Interactive' describes a process/exchange between users and computers and other machines through an interface (physical or spatial).
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interfaceAn interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a system of exchange information. The exchange can be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans, animal-world, nature and combinations of these.
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kinectKinect is a discontinued line of motion sensing input devices produced by Microsoft and first released in 2010. The devices generally contain RGB cameras, and infrared projectors and detectors that map depth through either structured light or time of flight calculations, which can in turn be used to perform real-time gesture recognition and body skeletal detection, among other capabilities.
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machine-learningMachine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.
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networkA network may describe any form of an interconnected group or system, whether in computation or nature.
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nftA non-fungible token (NFT) is a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain, a form of digital ledger, that can be sold and traded. Types of NFT data units may be associated with digital files such as photos, videos, and applications.
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objectAn object is a thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
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opencvOpenCV is a library of programming functions for real-time computer vision.
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particlesIn the physical sciences, a particle is a small localized object which can be described by several physical or chemical properties, such as volume, density, or mass. In computation, it is mostly used as a point that may have a position and vector.
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patternA pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.
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processA process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic. On CAN we use it to describe workflows or how a project came to be.
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projectionA projection is a design technique used to display a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface. Similarly it describes a way of displaying two-dimensional information in a physical space by using light.
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roboticsRobotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, computer science, and others.
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sculptureSculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth.
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simulationA simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real or speculative world.
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socialOn CAN we refer to things as "social" when they facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through different forms of communities and networks.
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theoryA theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking.
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typographyTypography is the technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
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Electronics / Physical Computing Specialist Technician at UAL Creative Computing Institute
Combine your hands-on expertise in electronics/physical computing with meaningful teaching and mentoring at the Creative Computing Institute in London.
Mechatronics Engineer at Poetic Kinetics
Poetic Kinetics, a creator of large-scale art installations, invites proposals for the design, prototyping, and production of the electronic and mechatronic systems for a new, confidential interact...
Creative Technologist at RLMG
RLMG are looking for a technologist with background in interactive experiences and spaces, hands-on experience with a wide variety of AV technologies, and is enthusiastic about new and innovative m...
Designer at Daily tous les jours
Daily tous les jours (Dtlj) is looking for a skilled designer to join their team on a full-time basis. The studio leads an emergent field of practice that combines interactive art, storytelling, pe...
Output – An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023
An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT.
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat – Hito Steyerl
Medium Hot is a collection of scintillating meditations on the limits of art and technology: the essential handbook for the present conjuncture. The pieces here probe the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change.
Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical practice for art and art-based research
Bringing together contributions by artists, writers and theorists, Fieldwork for Future Ecologies addresses the role that art practice and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork.
Liberate the Machines! – Joost Rekveld
Joost Rekveld’s Dialogues With Machines explores his evolving relationship with technology while making film #59—reviving analogue computing, rethinking machine learning, and embracing a non-controlling human-machine dialogue.
Bootstrapping Computing – Alexander D. Obenauer
Bootstrapping Computing is a short, technical book for curious, non-technical people, exploring how we built modern computing out of simpler parts.
Secret Rhythms – Artificiel’s Three Pieces with Titles
“Three Pieces with Titles” is the latest audiovisual performance by Montreal’s artificiel. In it Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy manipulate an eclectic collection of objects within the field of view of a computer vision system to generate real-tim...
#makeamericagreatagain — The potential of destructive rhetoric
A four year old project, which gets a new relevance due to current events: The project was created during the fall semester 2016 – it was the time of the US presidential election campaign 2016. Trump was running for president and his slogan „Make ...
Mojigen and Sujigen – Writing letters and numbers with servos using a time axis
Created by Yuichiro Katsumoto, Mojigen and Sujigen is a collection of servo motors, connected together to write a letter by the means of manipulating the axis of the motor.
Anachronic Landscapes – Automation and coevolution in nature
Created by the SCI-Arc faculty Curime Batliner and Jake Newsum in collaboration with Paralelo Architectos, Anachronic Landscapes is a robotic system that lives inside of an abandoned industrial structure overgrown by nature. The system executes it...
Queer Game Studies – an Alternative Lens for Reading Videogames
“Queer Games Studies” is a recent collection of thematic essays published by the University of Minnesota Press that schematizes LGBTQ approachs to thinking about – and making – videogames.
Internet of Shrimps – Ironic and playful look at the IoT
Created by Ralph Kistler, 'Internet of Shrimps' examines in an ironic and playful way the industries´ promises for an enhanced experience in a completely interconnected smart home, often be acclaimed as the next big technological revolution: the I...
Aerobanquets RMX – An Immersive Gastronomic Experience
Created by Mattia Casalegno and presented in collaboration with the chef Flavio Ghignoni Carestia, the Aerobanquets RMX is an immersive, sensorial experience focussed on the perception of taste.
Algae Chorus – A sound installation collaborates with living algae
Algae Chorus is a sound installation that collaborates with living algae, in real time, transforming their movement and photosynthesis process into sounds. The algae utilize the audience’s collective carbon exhalations within the exhibition space,...
Squarepusher x Z-Machines – The making of stupendous music machines
Some seven months ago Squarepusher and WARP records released a video titled Z-Machines, comprised of hand built robots showcasing the stupendous chops of the robot guitarist, drummer and keyboard player.
Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adjustable landscapes
Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, 'Artificial Arcadia' is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape ent...
Walking City – Evolving video sculpture by Universal Everything
Referencing the work of Archigram, Universal Everything continue to explore body and movement with the latest evolving video sculpture titled "Walking City".
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