Space Odradek – Dive into the spooky invisible
Space Odradek explores zombie satellites — defunct but still transmitting — and abandoned space objects, questioning whether things that have lost their purpose are truly dead or can emerge as entirely new forms of existence.
730 Hours of Violence – Materialising systemic oppression
730 hours of Violence represents and physicalises different forms of violence that exist and evolve in our modern society, taking the shape of new paradigms and ideas that aren't yet as visible, but ever-present and affecting our everyday.
DRIFT – A song in a shifting cinematic universe
DRIFT is a browser-based generative audiovisual work created by WAAVE Orchestra, the musical and visual project of Brazilian director and artist Manuel Nogueira.
Data Heartbreak – Data in an era of infoxication
Data Heartbreak is an immersive experience where the generated digital content is turned into the light of disinformation.
Schematic Scores – Values to structures
A homage to the beauty of data visualisation, this project blends the complex equations with the avant-garde notations of Cage and Penderecki. Inspired by Frank Lepold, it transforms data into geometric structures.
Not All Sparks Are Equal – The error of the 98% match
Not All Sparks Are Equal is a video mapping installation that explores how technological perception often strips away the vital context that gives human experience its meaning.
Racks – Fragmented urban artefacts
Racks is an interactive installation documenting abandoned bicycles across four London boroughs. The project examines bicycles that once belonged to someone, now stripped for parts through theft and left attached to public racks throughout the city.
MULTIPOLAR – Evolving state space of matter
MULTIPOLAR explores the kinetic potential of atomic structures and translates the states of matter into both visual and sonic form.
Mais où ? – Unfolding a poetic inquiry
Mais où ? is a live audiovisual performance developed with pianist Frédéric Volanti, where generative image and piano are co-performed in real time.
Creative Tech New York 2026 – Where Creative Technology, DesignOps, and CreativeOps Converge
Creative Tech New York 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting gatherings for professionals working at the intersection of creativity, technology, operations, and innovation. CAN member discount included.
Dreamrs Studio — Open alpha and a founding cohort for natural-language AV authoring and live performance
Dreamrs is in open alpha. We are seating a cohort of artists and engineers from the CAN community — practitioners who would use the studio to build real work and shape what the platform becomes next.
Creative Tech New York 2026 Agenda Now Live: Exploring the Future of AI, XR, and Creative Systems
This year’s agenda brings together leading voices from Meta Reality Labs, Google Creative Lab, Snap, MAC Cosmetics, Estée Lauder, the American Museum of Natural History, OLIVER, Hyperquake, Sundogs, CYCYMYMY, Unreasonable Studios, and ...
V6 Development Log (03/2026)
Activity gets a major update: LiveURLs let you embed p5.js, video, audio and more directly in posts. Custom Themes let you personalise CAN. API v2.3 and iOS v1.5.1 add Analytics and Channels.
Paramnésico by Desilence at Load Gallery
Load gallery celebrates its second birthday with a solo exhibition Paramnésico by Desilence, pioneers of visual scenography and real-time motion video.
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Project Funding Program For Media Art (Karlsruhe)
Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs has announced its project funding program for media art. The focus is on projects specifically developed for public space that achieve high visibility and accessibility for a broad audience. The aim is to enable artistic works that use media-based forms of expression to reflect on...
vvvv worldwide meet-up (34)
Hosted by the NODE Institute (online and in person), this is the meet-up for creatives and developers using the visual programming environment vvvv and its visual language VL. Join IRL or online with artist presentations and announcements in the vvvv community. 7pm CET, Wipperstrasse 13, 12055 Berlin.
Fiber Festival 2026
FIBER Festival is an Amsterdam based meeting place for everyone interested in contemporary audiovisual art, experimental electronic music, and daring conversations in relation to technological developments and societal issues. Following a successful 10th anniversary edition, the FIBER Festival returns for its 11th edition from 28 to 31 May 2026 at...
Hallucinations – Troika & Trevor Paglen
Hallucinations brings together the distinct yet convergent practices of artist Trevor Paglen and the collective Troika, interrogating how technologies shape perception, legibility, and the construction of reality. Both Paglen and Troika examine how technology configures the ways we see and understand the world, though they approach this question from opposite...
Creative Tech New York 2026
Creative technologists, innovators, and curious minds meet in New York for Creative Tech New York 2026, a day dedicated to the ideas, tools, and talent shaping the next era of creative innovation. This is where creativity meets code, where experimentation drives transformation, and where the boundaries between art, technology, and...
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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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Director, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale College
CCAM in New Haven are looking for a Director to provide strategic and operational leadership, articulating a compelling vision for the center at Yale College and beyond.
Creative Researcher in XR 60% (Junior Researcher) at Zurich University of the Arts
Zurich University of the Arts are looking for a Creative Researcher to represent the field of Extended Reality (XR) within the Immersive Arts Space’s interdisciplinary core team.
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.
Digital Occultism
Tracing fictions from early internet cultures to contemporary platforms, this book examines how they produce material realities, how politics operate as psychological warfare, and how algorithmic feedback engineers desire.
Kick Drum Circuit Design Guide
This illustrated guide walks you through designing an analog kick drum circuit from scratch – starting with a simple five-component bridged-t oscillator and building up to a fully featured percussion voice.
Designing Questions
Designing Questions introduces an alternative design pedagogy. At its core are speculative practices, world-building, material engagement, and storytelling, equipping students and practitioners to address urgent questions of our time.
Maintenance of Everything
Maintenance of Everything is an in-depth exploration of maintenance—and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
Infinite Sunset – A digital replacement for the act of watching the sun set
Created by Joseph Gray, Infinite Sunset uses simple graphical elements to visually describe a sunset seascape ever changing in its sameness.
SMOG SEASON-Air Pollution Data
SMOG SEASON is a workpiece that pulled PM 2.5 data to satirically compare the bad effect of cigarette smoke on the human body with current Bangkok air pollution by expressing through pictures and warnings of a cigarette label.
A Wilderness Most Luminous – The Making of Micah Scott’s Forest
Forest invites kids and adults alike to engage with a giant tactile colour mixer, with ‘spinner’ controls distributed across a 7 x 2 grid of custom-fabricated MDF panels. Built in collaboration between Micah Scott and a team at Ryerson University’...
OpenSurgery: DIY surgical robots as a critical alternative to costly healthcare
The OpenSurgery project investigates whether building DIY surgical robots, outside the scope of medical regulations, could plausibly provide an accessible alternative to costly professional healthcare services worldwide.
Flutter – Sound artefacts as an expression for grieving adolescents
Created at Fabrica, Flutter is an experimental app concept designed specifically for grieving adolescents. It uses music to help those experiencing the loss of a loved one – a period of time often resulting in high levels of isolation and incredib...
ACT Festival 2015 – Four Days of Tremors, Shifts, Tektonics
CAN is thrilled to announce the first edition of #ACTFestival – a four-day summit that combines a world class exhibition, a symposium, a performance and workshop program, and takes place November 25th to 28th / Gwangju, South Korea.
Perpetual Beta [encounters in open space] – Exhibition & Weekly Events
From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The...
Enjoy the Silence – Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III
PSAD Synthetic Desert III is a (semi) anechoic chamber that endeavors to emulate the silence and emptiness of the Northern Arizona desert. Initially conceived by the American artist Doug Wheeler in 1968, the project was finally realized at NYC’s G...
Pro-Folio – Online portfolios from fictional artists and designers
Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
VoxelChair – Designing for behaviour and properties of the material
Created by Manuel Jiménez Garcia and Gilles Retsin, 'Voxel Chair' is a first prototype designed using a new design software specifically developed for robotic 3D-Printing which rather than using pre-defined forms and then “slicing” these it into t...
