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Silk Pavilion II – Mediated Matter Group at the MoMA

Latest in the series of groundbreaking projects by Mediated Matter Group (MIT Media Lab) is the new successor to the Silk Pavilion (2013) project, results currently on show (subject to COVID-19 restrictions) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The project utilizes an integrated kinetic mandrel designed to guide the natural spinning motion of the silkworms through clockwise rotation,…

grindruberairbnb.exposed – Network and invisible systems of control

Created by Jonathan Chomko, 'grindruberairbnb.exposed' is an exploratory project into networks' ability to guide movement through physical space - the name concatenates three popular digital services which perform acts of choreography on a mass scale. While aiming to 'expose' these as systems of control, the project also aims to create a vision of collective action enabled by the network. Using a custom…

KAZU “Come Behind Me, So Good!” – Music video by Daito Manabe ＋ Kenichiro Shimizu

A collaboration between Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks) and Kenichiro Shimizu (PELE) for Kazu Makino, 'Come Behind Me, So Good!' music video combines photogrammetry and mixed reality to create a seamless dream-like landscape - invigorated by Elevenplay performance. Over the last few years Rhizomatiks have cultivated this way of working through a number of past projects, collecting abundant data to…

Expressions – Paint and pixel matière at micro-scale

Created by Kynd in collaboration with Yu Miyashita (Sound), 'Expressions' is a series of artworks exploring the physicality of thick and bold paint-like dynamic constructs that emerge from illuminated digital space revealing an intricate play of shapes, light and shadow. The video, titled 'Accelerated Expressions' (video below) is a culmination of experiments and a dynamic counterpart driven by Yu Miyashita’s recent composition, in…

Avatar Mythology – Technology as metaphorical “alter-beings”

Created by LIMAGE, a collective comprised of media designers, 3d creators, artists and coders, 'Avatar·Mythology' is a performance project drawing on the worldview of Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), a Chinese classic text of mythic geography and beasts. Avatar·Mythology instills a contemporary, philosophical contemplations into a newly conceived story. Against the mythical backdrop is the idea of “avatar,” or modes of “alter-being,”…

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors – Reflections on the ECAL Research Day 2019

Since ECAL’s R&D department opened in the year 2000, the Swiss art and design school conducted more than thirty research projects into everything from data materiality to augmented photography to artificial intelligence. In November 2019, CAN joined the biannual ECAL Research Day to find out how methodologies borrowed from science and engineering can strengthen creative practice—and drive the conversation. “Art and design schools are perhaps…

CMD: Experiment in bio-algorithmic politics

Created by Michael Sedbon, 'CMD' is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented in the design of automated infrastructures and algorithms, and if it is possible to frame out technologies and system as a single emergent life-form. If so,…

SFPC Fall 2019 Student Showcase

The School for Poetic Computation is an artist run school in New York offering two full-time, ten-week sessions per year as well as classes, workshops, and events in the interim. During the ten-week sessions, a small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, design,…

CAN 2019 – Highlights and Favourites

As per tradition each year, December is when we look back at the amazing work published on CAN. From ingenious machines and installations to mesmerising experiences that leverage new mediums for artistic inquiry – we added scores of projects to CAN's archive in 2019. Here are some highlights. For previous years, see 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013,

Intersections – The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Celebrates its 30th Anniversary

It's a cliche that turning 30 is accompanied by soul searching and pensive questions about the future. That might be true for a young adult, but what about a media lab: what happens when a multidisciplinary lab enters its third decade and begins barrelling towards middle age? The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University just broached this temporal milestone with Intersections,…