Mars Terrain Playback – Exploring non-extractive futures and intimacy with unknown worlds
Mars Terrain Playback is a small electric vehicle that replays sections of Perseverance’s journey across Mars.
Semantic Noise – The emergence of error in the age of semantic machines
Semantic Noise is a generative artwork that explores the emergence of error and ambiguity in an age increasingly shaped by semantic machines.
Tessera – A file network with no infrastructure
Tessera is an open-source wearable pendant designed to hold a microSD card. Inspired by the traditional locket, which was created to carry personal objects close to the body, the piece treats data as something similar.
House of IFs – Agentic AI and correlation as divination
House of Ifs transforms daily news into Mesopotamian-style omen tablets using AI agents, connecting signs to outcomes. Explore the archive, uncover hidden texts, consult the Scribe, and weigh in on the machine's uncanny authority.
ACC NEXT 2027 Emerging Asian Artists International Open Call
The National Asian Culture Center (ACC) announces the 2027 ACC NEXT Emerging Asian Artists International Open Call, inviting emerging artists from across Asia to submit bold, experimental works at the intersection of art and technology.
Limites – In a forest he digitized, Simon runs
Limites is a short film with an autobiographical narrative, captured in the forest of Chaney in Switzerland, where running embodies the intimate link between the protagonist and the forest.
Clouds to Poem – On the poetic inefficiency of AI
Clouds to Poem asks what happens when we delegate the distinctly human, purposeless act of daydreaming to a machine.
Photograph is of ___ – Pigment, traces, and the air between
is of___ are a series of landscape photographs printed using pigments extracted from various natural elements from the original location preserved in a custom built enclosure system.
The Helix – A kinetic system of mirrored sculpture, light and sound
The Helix is a large-scale kinetic light and sound installation built around a five-metre rotating sculpture of mirrored glass.
Rill Sound – A family of four small AV instruments for Stick S3
Rill Sound is a family of four small audiovisual instruments that pair evolving music with generative visuals.
V6 Development Log (07/2026)
Two months, four big wins: Archives Browser rebuilt with a 3D Semantic Space, API docs reborn as an interactive browser with a new Search API, Activity turns one year old, hits 2.1.0 and gets faster with in-app Search + Liquid Glass.
Patternflow – An Open-Source LED Synthesizer Reinterpreting Participation TV
Patternflow, an open-source LED synthesizer by Seunghun Lee, reimagines Nam June Paik's Participation TV (1963) — four knobs reshape light patterns in real time, and others are already building and sharing their own.
Why Creativity Cannot Be Interpolated
AI systems can produce individually novel outputs, but novelty alone is not creativity. They argue that genuine creativity requires respect for constraints and that current AI systems lack this capacity.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI
Amnesty International brief examining how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
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AND FESTIVAL 2026
Over one transformative weekend, AND Festival returns to deliver extraordinary art and site-responsive installations, collaborating with visionary artists, creative technologists and collaborators that push the boundaries of immersive experiences.
AA2A – 2026/27 Residency (UK)
AA2A is an Arts Council England IPSO that has been facilitating artists' residencies since an initial pilot in 1996. They foster collaboration between further and higher education institutions and artists while supporting students as they transition from study to employment in the arts. Artist residencies are available in a number...
Ready To Die – Auriea Harvey
In this solo exhibition, Auriea returns to mythologies in her own likeness: part self-portrait, part vessel, part mythic double. Monuments, statues, vessels, carvings, and intimate talismans will inhabit a chamber of passage – an environment shaped by death, rebirth, memory, and transformation.
Robot17 ?SyntaxError
The ROBOT Festival is an international event in Bologna, Italy, completely dedicated to digital art and electronic music. The upcoming edition (?SyntaxError) takes place across multiple dates: 13 September, 25 September, and 8–10 October 2026.
Shadow Creatures – From Spirit Photography To The Ghosts Of The Algorithm
Spectral beings haunt digital images: algorithmic figures lurk in photorealistic computer games, enigmatic beings nest in datasets, and ghostly figures surface through AI prompts. Shadow Creatures shifts the focus from photography as a medium of light to shadows. The exhibition spans historical spirit photography and the algorithmic phantoms of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Professorship in Illustration (W2) at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
We seek a Professor of Illustration & Drawing with strong analog/digital skills, storytelling ability, and AI software literacy. You will teach core concepts, guide student projects, and innovate a...
Assistant / Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) in Interactive Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Nanyang Technological University invites applications for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) in Interactive Media at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM).
Product UI Designer at Loom Literature
Looking for a product/UI designer to refine the existing design for LOOM, an independent, writing-first social app currently preparing for a small beta.
Künstlerischer Mitarbeiterin (w/m/d/x) (Artistic Associate) at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
Seeking an Artistic Associate for the 'Mighty Maker Machines' project in Halle, Germany. The part-time role focuses on organizing and teaching formats that merge AI technology with foundational des...
Autonomous Agents – Artists on Human-Machine Interaction
Autonomous Agents: Artists on Human-Machine Interaction captures a pivotal moment in AI’s impact on art and society through interviews with fifteen artists spanning diverse geographies, generations, and philosophies.
The Aesthetics of Machine Vision – Critical Terms and Ideas
The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspectives.
Ada Lovelace’s Notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine
This book is a new typesetting and construction of Ada Lovelace’s extensive notes on the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, from 1843.
Design Magazine CA 287 – The Tools Issue: The Expanded Toolkit
This issue explores the expanding toolkit of contemporary design practice, highlighting the tools, systems, and methodologies that shape how designers think, work, and create.
Inventing ELIZA – How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies.
Space Replay – Delayed echo of human activity
Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
A-B-Z-TXT 2018 – Call for Participants
A-B-Z-TXT is back—and our favourite summer typography school is looking for international applicants. Apply to join Jürg Lehni, Mindy Seu, Jon Gacnik and others in Toronto Aug 23-26 for four days of masterclasses, workshops, and lectures.
SPOOK-I: Surveillance and weaponization of everyday devices
Created by Francesco Tacchini, SPOOK-I is a hypothetical but operative US National Security Agency inspired machine. It mimics two surveillance techniques available to the NSA Tailored Access Operations unit, in order to expose the technology empl...
Rasper, Mutor and Rippler – Mechatronic sound-sculptures by Mo H. Zareei
Created by Mo H. Zareei, Rasper, Mutor and Rippler are a series of mechatronic sound-sculptures inspired by Brutalist architecture. The instruments are grouped into three different categories, based on the material and sound production mechanism t...
Pro-Folio – Online portfolios from fictional artists and designers
Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
20°C – Devices for tangible interaction with data
Created by Hélène Portier at ECAL, 20°C is a collection of devices designed to question our relationship to data through a series of physical challenges that enable/disable access.
ofxRobotArm & ofxURDriver – Madeline Gannon & Dan Moore
ofxRobotArm is an openFrameworks addon for doing creative things with robot arms. The goal of the addon is to remove as many technical barriers as possible to get up and running with 6-axis robots.
CLOUDS – Code, Creativity, and Immersion
An interactive (and immersive) documentary on code and creativity, Jonathan Minard and James George’s CLOUDS is an ambitious project that is several years in the making. CAN donned an Oculus Rift DK2, explored its landscape and has weighed-in wit...
Discovery Wall – Screen made from thousands of iPod Nanos
Created by London-based creative agencies Squint/Opera and Hirsch&Mann, Discovery Wall is a wall-sized installation created from thousands of tiny screens and lenses.
true/false – The audio/visual choreography of an algorithm
Created by Berlin based onformative, true/false is a kinetic sculpture comprised of arrays of circular black metal segments set in mechanical columns. Interlocking and rotating around fluorescent light tubes, the cylinders cover or expose the ligh...
The Aerographer – “Groundless air and a place inside the clouds”
Created by Luiz Zanotello, The Aerographer is an installation that explores the state of uncertainty in times of ubiquitous technological mediation, borders among territories and boundaries among bodies.
