Beyond the Screen – How algorithms look back at us
Beyond the Screen is an immersive installation that explores how algorithms look right back at us - exposing, in real time, how machine vision perceives and interprets human behaviour.
Material Interactions – A New Species of Design
In a debut collaboration, a series of five material-driven kinetic sculptures by designers Nadya Suvorova and Heidi Jalkh don’t just move: they respond, proving that "passive matter" is anything but.
Forever Frequencies – Joint symphony of sound and reminiscence
Forever Frequencies is an installation that computes a personal melody from a visitor's memory, using their own past and imagined future as the raw material for a one-of-a-kind musical composition.
Helical Echo – A modular, evolving object
The Helical Echo is a sculptural totem created for CultHoldings. Like the abstracted DNA forms it displays, the sculpture itself is designed to evolve, to be upgraded and reshaped.
T(h)ree – Integrating community knowledge with natural infrastructure and AI
T(h)ree is a permanent landscape intervention in Central London, that gives a ‘voice’ to a Tree that has witnessed hundreds of years of history, so people can talk with it and ask questions.
Interview with Marc Vilanova – The hidden frequencies of embodied sound experiences
Serena Cangiano meets Marc Vilanova to talk about infrasound, embodied listening, and the invisible frequencies that connect human bodies, urban infrastructures, and natural environments.
Corpseware – Seven years of dormancy, one moment of bloom
Corpseware is a minimal, disc based software ritual housed in a tablet form vernacular shrine inspired by the bloom mechanic of the Corpse Flower.
Residual Lines – Fragility of Knowledge
Residual Lines is a redaction machine that visualizes the loss of new knowledge tied to recent research grant cuts.
Exploring Post-Poster at MDes Basel
Grace Hannah Park’s graduate thesis project at MDes Basel reveals new possibilities for the moving poster through an exploration of physical sensors and creative-coding.
Scruple – A Chrome extension that replaces moral hesitation with computation
Scruple reads your Gmail, runs four ethical frameworks in parallel, and writes the replies — simulating compassion, automating principle, outsourcing guilt.
V6 Development Log (02/2026)
February’s push debuts CAN API (v2.1) and our iOS App (v1.3.1). Members can now participate in Activity directly via mobile, or build their own micro-apps using the API.
The First Wave of Speakers Announced for Creative Tech New York 2026!
On June 16, join us to explore what’s next in Creative Tech, in a culture shaped by AI acceleration, immersive worlds, and interconnected audiences.
Featured
Deep Fields – Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Deep Fields brings together artists who explore deep fields, from distant desert landscapes to unstable, mobile fields of particles. Confronted with the unrepresentable and the invisible, the artists question perception, which is constantly referred back to its own limits, frameworks and boundaries. Their works are traces of events: the material...
PROPHECY – Auriea Harvey (Arebyte)
PROPHECY is a body of newly commissioned work by pioneering multi-media artist Auriea Harvey. Curated by Pita Arreola, PROPHECY is an allegorical rendering of a spiritual journey, charting a course to reclaim grace and unity amid a landscape of disconnection and collective suffering. At its core lies a deep yearning...
Soft, Slow and Powerful – STRP
Soft, Slow and Powerful is a three-day event by STRP from 26-28 March in which they explore the alternative relationships with technology. Featuring a small-scale exhibition, a performance night , workshops, and a context programme, with the works of Atelier-E, Nemo Vos, Ecaterina Grigorieva, Gjorgji Despodov, Sara Ballout, Theresa Reiwer,...
CCL at Royal Ballet and Opera
Apply to join an intensive week-long Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) embedded within the Royal Ballet and Opera during the RBO/SHIFT Festival, alongside other creatives, technologists, and practitioners exploring AI in performance contexts.
Max Cooper – Royal Albert Hall
Max Cooper is bringing his distinctive style of combining intricate electronic musical compositions with complex audio-visual displays to London's Royal Albert Hall.
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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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Lecturer – Computing Applications at Texas Tech University
The School of Professional Studies at Texas Tech University Online invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Lecturer position in Computing Applications to begin Spring 2026.
Freelance Producer/Director – Museum Media at RLMG
RLMG is seeking a visionary Producer/Director to lead the creative development of cinematic, story-driven media experiences for museums and cultural institutions.
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...
BiblioTech – ReReading the Post-digital Library
BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age.
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses – Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial research practices that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks.
Are You a Software Update?
Are You a Software Update? brings together seven authors to examine the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology.
Collapsed Mythologies – A Geofinancial Atlas
This book explores the mythological slang of finance—from hectocorns to dark pools. Benjaminsen and Casey reveal how these "supernatural" fictions aren't just colorful talk, but forces that violently shape our real-world ecology.
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.
Future Flora – Celebrating Female Biophilia
Questioning our notions of wellbeing to develop innovative tools in the intersection of medical and social sciences, Giulia Tomasello investigates the potential of biotechnology and living materials, proposing a biological and sustainable alternat...
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.
Invisible Network – A ‘social network’ for the machines
'Invisible Network' is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it...
Motion Picture 2.0 – A New Recording Technology
In collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the ZKM has organized a competition within the Science Year 2014 – The Digital Society: all those interested are invited to experiment with this new technology developed by the ...
Disobedient Electronics: Protest – the revolution will run on a microcontroller
A follow-up to the influential 2012 booklet series “Critical Making,” “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” is a new zine by Vancouver-based theorist and educator Garnet Hertz that uses dissent as a lens to survey electronics-based projects and pract...
Bit – The demise of chance and the rise of algorithm
Created bu Jonghong Park at the University of the Arts Bremen (Digital Media Program), the installation ‘bit’ represents a natural random process based on the principle of a Markov chain.
Persistence of Vision – Subverting civil infrastructure
Persistence of Vision is a public installation that adapts recognisable civil infrastructure into an interactive experience. The project is a reaction to our current state of surveillance, be it self initiated or passive, by revealing an often ove...
HOLO 2 – Back to the (not-so-distant) future
Learn more about the making of HOLO 2. Featuring over 30 contributors from a dozen countries and a hefty 200 pages of premium print, HOLO returns and endeavours to be smarter, more substantive, and more special than our first issue.
Conditional_Lover – A physical bot that automates your Tinder
Conditional_Lover is a bot that unlike its counterparts that live hidden in servers, has a physical appearance with a task to automate your Tinder using its "eyes" and "fingers". It does this by analysing photos on your phone (webcam) and then sel...
Incontroller – Dynamic arrow keys, consistent gameplay, inverted difficulty
Created by Mylene Dreyer, Incontroller is a game designed where the difficulty level in the game increases in the controller while the software remains the same.
Neo-Natur – A space for thought, about and <u>for</u> Nature / ART+COM
Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, 'Neo-Natur' is a permanent installation for Berlin's Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-su...