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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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...
hack.lu 2026
Hack.lu is an open convention/conference where people can discuss computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. It’s the 20th edition (20th -> 23rd October) of hack.lu in Luxembourg
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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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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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Assistant or Associate Professor of Graphic Design (Tenure-Track) at Auburn University
The School of Industrial and Graphic Design at Auburn University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Graphic Design at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor commencing August...
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.
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.
Kazokutchi – New social formats
Families of digital artificial lives that inhabit (micro-robotic) houses and reproduce on the blockchain.
Blueprint – Pairing genetics and code, the blueprints of artificial and natural systems
Created by United Visual Artists, Blueprint is an installation designed to explore the relationship and parallels between natural and artificial systems – creating a visual composition that uses mathematical principles of logic that underpin life.
Saturn Submerged – Infinite boxes of infinite space
Created by Gabriel Pulecio, Saturn Submerged is part of an ongoing series of ‘infinity boxes’ that create expanded spaces within themselves. The sculpture is composed of multiple mirrored surfaces and LEDs, which are fused to create the illusion o...
Open Data Cam
'Open Data Cam' is a tool that helps to quantify the world. With computer vision 'Open Data Cam' understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple DIY setup allows everybody to become an urban data miner.
Land Lines – Drawing satellite imagery through gesture
Created by Zach Lieberman in collaboration with Google's Data Arts team, 'Land Lines' is a web experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to c...
Waiting for Bárðarbunga – Non-Linear Landscape Cinema
Created by François Quévillon, Waiting for Bárðarbunga is an installaton made of hundreds of video sequences which are presented according to a probabilistic system influenced by real-time sensor information coming from the computer that displays ...
Nova – Slit-scan as mechanism for growth, decay and transformation
Created by James Alliban, Nova is an experimental study of the slit-scan technique with a particular focus on emphasising its spacial and temporal properties.
