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BIY™ (Believe it Yourself) – Real-fictional belief-based computing kits by Automato

Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, 'BIY™ - Believe it Yourself' is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions. The team worked with experts in fortune telling from Italy, geomancy from China and numerology from India to translate their knowledge and beliefs into three separate kits – BIY.SEE, BIY.MOVE and BIY.HEAR. They invite users…

Physicalising a Pixel – LED Matrix Display Tutorial / Document 1. Workshop

This past March, CAN joined forces with UAL Creative Computing Institute to present the first in a series of events that examine new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice. Entitled Document 1., the event was comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposium, and took place at UAL’s newly refurbished Camberwell College of Art in London. Under the guidance of Andreas Gysin, Document 1.…

HALO – Science of nature through the eyes and ears of a technological sublime

HALO is a large scale immersive artwork which embodies Semiconductor’s ongoing fascination with how we experience the materiality of nature through the lens of science and technology. Taking the form of a large cylinder (10m x 8m x 4.2m), the structure houses a 360-degree projection of ATLAS detector's raw data while an array of…

Exercises in visual audio and deviant electronics: CAN to host twelve workshops at Mapping Festival 2019 (May 23-26)

Post-screen interfaces, museum hacking, scent transplants, 360° immersion: at the 15th anniversary edition of Geneva’s Mapping Festival (May 23 – 26), CAN is proud to host an eclectic workshop program lead by key artists, designers, and researchers in our field. Join us! 15 years is an eternity in the digital age. YouTube, Twitter, CreativeApplications.Net (CAN)—Geneva’s Mapping Festival precedes them all. Founded in 2005 to rally…

100% Chair – Designing for Algorithmic Landscapes

Created by Radical Norms, 100% Chair is an exploratory project speculating on on the near future where humans and smart machines live, learn and work together. The project explores a design processes that consider Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) as a collaborator and a stakeholder. In the first of series of explorations, the team are looking at the relationship between A.I. and a possible future world…

Alias – A teachable “parasite” for your smart assistant

Created by Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen, Alias is a teachable “parasite” that is designed to give users more control over their smart assistants, both when it comes to customisation and privacy. Through a simple app the user can train Alias to react on a custom wake-word/sound, and once trained, Alias can take control over your home assistant by activating it for you.…

Alt-C – Designing for synergy between our ecosystems and network economics

Created by Michael Sedbon, Alt-C is an installation that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency. The project questions our relationship to ecosystems in regards to networked technologies and abstraction problematics. During the photosynthesis process, green plants release sugars and organic matters in the soil. These nutrients will then be digested by bacterias releasing electrons. As…

The Center for Counter-Productive Robotics – Human-centric approach to automation

Created by Media & Interaction Design students at ECAL during a one week workshop led by Thibault Brevet, The Center for Counter-Productive Robotics is a collection of experiments where a robot was programmed to perform counter-productive tasks, with intention to develop a more human-centric approach to automation and robotics. "In this day and age, robots are presented as the embodiment of precision, speed…

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. Each machine consists of "information" engraved on the read head and an "event" caused by the operation of the motor. Linked together using a Markov chain algorithm, one can predict which of the four…

Manus – Exploring pack behaviours in autonomous robots

Created by Madeline Gannon for the 2018 Annual Meeting of New Champions at the The World Economic Forum, in Tianjin, China, Manus is a set of ten industrial robots that are programmed to behave like a pack of animals. While each robot moves independently, they share the same central brain. So instead of acting in isolation, they have intertwined behaviors that ripple through the group as people walk…