Zero Range – Documenting the unbearable in a culture of systematic filtering
Zero Range is an interactive installation that exposes the administrative violence of data that is recorded but ignored. It highlights how available information about violence vanishes through systematic disregard and filtering.
Light Streaks – Generative photography
The latest in the series of experiments by Karsten Schmidt, is a small selection of long-exposure images created from randomly generated IFS, a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions
Analytic Scape – World as classified and quantified by AI
Analytic Scape is a series of scape videos reconstructed through the eye of AI. After capturing various urban and natural scenes, the footage was analyzed using twenty distinct computer vision algorithms.
Constant Points of Data – Indistinct voices over PA
This project is an investigation into novel applications of turntablism for audiovisual composition and performance, focusing on elastic tempo manipulation.
Privacy Policy Printer – A physical receipt printer for your digital agreements
Privacy Policy Printer is a thermal receipt printer that prints the privacy policies of online services—documents that users routinely agree to without reading.
Noema – Rethinking Perception with AI-Generated Spatial Soundscapes
Noema is a Large Language Object (LLO) that reconstructs perception via spatial audio and storytelling. By shifting focus from sight to sound, it turns AI into a sensory extension—an inner voice that interprets, speaks, and questions.
Exhibit A – A machine that turns you into a criminal
Exhibit A is an interactive installation that turns users into cybercriminals. By pressing a button, you launch a live darknet marketplace hosted on the hardware, trafficking illicit data.
Spectrum Slit – A light that can see radiowaves
Spectrum Slit transforms the hidden storm of radio waves into a physical experience by using LED filaments, translating digital traffic into bursts of light and sound, exposing the constant and invasive density of our modern world.
ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency Open Call
The National Asian Culture Center invites artists, creators, and interdisciplinary practitioners to participate in a five-month residency program based in Gwangju, South Korea.
Constella – Supporting Storywriters’ Interconnected Character Creation through LLM-based Multi-Agents
Constella is a AI-based creativity support tool that uses social media-inspired interactions to help storywriters build interconnected character casts.
Whose future is liveable?
Article by Jake Fremantle discussing two recent books on ecological politics by Nicholas Beuret and Thea Riofrancos and the pathways to resisting capital's ecological destruction.
paint.stx – Drawing tool combining hydra and p5.js
Select a brush and adjust its appearance with the sliders or live code the brush in the editor (+ show).
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Ambivalences – Artistic Creation in Digital Environments
The interregional cooperation programme Ambivalences – run by the three regional hubs of Brittany, Normandy and Pays de la Loire – is calling for projects of artistic creation in digital environments. The selected projects must be part of an artistic approach that uses forms of writing that renew or hybridize...
localhost:2026
Organized by METAA (metaa.ch) and guided by the theme “Break the Loop”, localhost:2026 (CH) celebrates experimental artistic practices and digital cultures. The festival highlights artists and designers whose experimental and critical approches challenge established norms.
Another World Is Possible
Another World Is Possible is an exhibition on the future, exploring the practice of world-building across cinema, architecture, design, and speculative fiction. The exhibition reflects a distinctly Singaporean approach to the future, one shaped by long-term thinking, environmental pragmatism, and an ethic of collective responsibility. Co-Curated by Liam Young.
Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies
Wayne McGregor’s latest work fuses dance, choreography, digital imagery, sound and AI into a performance experience. At its heart is a 360-degree LED screen, immersing audiences in vivid 3D visuals.
ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency
The National Asian Culture Center (ACC) invites artists, creators, and interdisciplinary practitioners to participate in a five-month residency program based in Gwangju, South Korea. The theme of this edition, Speculative Communities, examines designed and technologically mediated forms of community, addressing their potential and limitations in current and speculative social conditions.
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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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Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Artist/Designer (T/TE) at University of Arizona
The School of Art at the University of Arizona invites applications for an interdisciplinary artist or designer whose practice bridges material exploration, object-making, 3D fabrication, and sculp...
Artistic Employee (m/f/d) Creative Technologist at Bauhaus-University Weimar
The Professorship of Interface Design in the Faculty of Art and Design is currently inviting applications for the position of Artistic Employee, Creative Technologist for the Media Art and Design d...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Artistic Research – AI in Artistic Processes at University of Bergen The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art
The position is for a fixed-term period of three years, connected to the newly formed MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, with a desired start date of September 1, 2026.
Creative Research Engineer at Zurich University of the Arts
The Immersive Arts Space (IAS) at ZHdK, an art and technology platform, is looking for a Research Associate / Creative Research Engineer.
We the Bacteria – Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
Rethinking architecture through the lens of microbes, arguing bacteria are the true builders. This book traces 10,000 years of human-microbe entanglements to challenge the sterile, antibiotic philosophy of modern design.
45 Symbols – Clay to Code
45 Symbols–Clay to Code examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to a visual language.
Slow Technology Reader
Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens.
The illusion of Thinking
The illusion of Thinking – a publication on artistic research and the overlooked implications of artificial intelligence and its assumed capacity to think and reason.
Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
Two artistic field studies provide the starting point for a dialogical reflection on the entanglement of diverse temporalities in body-related, datafied, and experiential practices.
Hertzian Landscapes – The interactive space of a radio spectrum
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'Hertzian Landscapes' is a live visualization of the radio spectrum. It includes a digital receiver to scan large swaths of radio spectrum in near real-time and using Three.js visualises thousands of signals into a panor...
Feedback Machines – (Mis-)using technology + non-linear behavioural systems
Created at the Köln International School of Design and supervised by Prof. Andreas Muxel, Feedback Machines is a short student project that explores the concept of feedback loops, as an attempt to introduce students to physical computing as well a...
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.
Inside Inside – Remixing video games and cinema with ML
Created by Douglas Edric Stanley, Inside Inside is an interactive installation remixing video games and cinema. In between, a neural network creates associations from its artificial understanding of the two, generating a film in real-time from gam...
etcpp – Drawing animation using a pen plotter and granular matter
Created by Lafkon, etcpp is an animation created using Processing and a Pen Plotter where animation frames are drawn into various granular matter.
White Does Not Exist – Synthetic colour by Flavien Théry
Flavien Théry explores the reverse of Newton disc where patterned disc, rotated at high speed, produces an optical illusion of colour.
School for Poetic Computation – Fall 2016 Final Showcase
In the final week of the last year's fall 10-week program at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), students presented their work in progress and its underly ideas in a public showcase. Here is a selection of projects that were presented.
Turning Data Around – OCR Journal #002
An output of the Office for Creative Research, OCR Journal #002 documents the process and philosophy of the Brooklyn-based studio specializing in complex data-informed projects.
Cycles – 17 laser projectors visualise audio inside a sphere
Created by COCOLAB from Mexico and commissioned by ARCA, Cycles is an audio visual installation that uses a series of laser projectors to visualise short cycle audio compositions by a collection of A/V artists.
TAMI – An intuitive approach to the learning of trigonometry
TAMI (Tangible Mathematics Interface) is an interface that facilitates the learning of the basics of trigonometry. Comprised of a tabletop display and a series of physical controllers, users can manipulate mathematical parameters and see the resul...
RWM MK1 – Soundscapes of electromagnetic radiation
The RWM MK1 (Radio Wave Modulator Mark 1) is an experimental electronic synthesizer that captures and transforms the constant stream of radio waves and transmissions passing through Earth's atmosphere.