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Invisible Network – A ‘social network’ for the machines

Created by Evan Kelly at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design BA) '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 maintains with its personal environment. In our daily environment, electronic devices, such as our phones,…

The Entropy Gardens – A spatiotemporal poem in VR

Created by Vienna based Depart (Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf), 'The Entropy Gardens' is an explorative VR experience that challenges one of humanity’s most archetypical art forms – garden making. It explores its myths, aesthetics and modes of perception. Like a garden, The Entropy Gardens attempts to become a spatiotemporal poem — a poetic organism. In the form of a sprawling journey it constructs a hermetic, virtual garden…

On Framing Textile Ambiguities – Nathalie Gebert

Created by Nathalie Gebert, 'On Framing Textile Ambiguities' is artistic research on situated objectivities at the intersection of textile processing and computer history. The installation is the output of a critical investigation on social and technical developments that led to the current local technological situation. Beyond being a metaphor for the theoretical framework of Donna Haraway's Situated Knowledges, the thread that wanders through the installation…

A studio sun system with light-artist Arnout Meijer – Random Studio

Created by Random Studio in collaboration with Arnout Meijer and RWA Electronics, the project is comprised of a lighting system in Random's studio that emulates the movement of the sun and the ever-evolving states of natural light. The custom created dynamic infrastructure and software of the installation allow Random to control each LED light pixel individually and is built to cater for numerous inputs…

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…