Reverse Diffusion – Video streams as a medium for transforming reality
Reverse Diffusion was a recent ECAL workshop where through live capture or interface-based processes, students experimented with different ways of altering images using locally run diffusion models.
Solaris? – Challenging the anthropocentric view of the wild
Solaris? was an outdoor walking performance in Tromsø. Inspired by Lem’s sci-fi novel, it used Lawrence Malstaff’s art and HC Gilje’s custom goggles to transform a forest into an alien planet, exploring how we react to the unfamiliar.
Cruise Missile Intersectionality
A live-set by Mo H. Zareei aka mHz that presents a blunt political commentary on the paradoxical nature of performative allyship, a tongue-in-cheek audiovisual onslaught on the feel-good politics of Western liberalism.
Stella Remota by TSVI – Matteo Zamagni
Visualiser for the track ‘Stella Remota’ by TSVI and a real-time live system that simulates flock behaviour of birds.
Boring Screens – Handheld micro-dioramas of modern stares
Boring Screens are a series of small interactive art objects that capture scenes of people who have fallen asleep while looking at their smartphones, or people on their laptops while propping up their chins.
Dead Crossing – Transversing cinema and interactive gameplay
Dead Crossing explores how artificial intelligence can transverse the invisible frontier between cinema history and interactive gameplay.
skadw- / Space woven by shadows
skadw- is an immersive audiovisual installation exploring how shadows influence our perception of space.
The Light Named You – Resetting Earth’s gravity
The Light Named You is an installation that utilises an ultrasonic levitation system within the ring space and assigns a tiny physical particle as the photon's proxy to resonate with your gravity.
Terrae Motus – Seismic data as an audiovisual ecosystem
Terrae Motus transforms comprehensive earthquake data recorded in Türkiye from 1900 to the present into an interactive and multi-sensory experience through a real-time, data-driven custom software system.
Why Creativity Cannot Be Interpolated
AI systems can produce individually novel outputs, but novelty alone is not creativity. They argue that genuine creativity requires respect for constraints and that current AI systems lack this capacity.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI
Amnesty International brief examining how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
V6 Development Log (05/2026)
Activity iOS V2 is out! Members can join CAN, manage, and renew accounts in-app. Non-members can browse the feed without an account. Plus, seamless logins, instant loading, data export, plus many bug fixes and UX improvements.
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.
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Sónar+D 2026
Sónar+D explors the shared spaces between the creative industries, innovation and technology. A three-day programme fully integrated into Sónar by Day, is where you’ll find talks and panel discussions, performances, and interactives.
Disruptive Cultures: Affect and Effects of Social Media
"Disruptive Cultures: Affect and Effects of Social Media" explores how social media can provoke strong emotional reactions in users and has significant cultural and social implications. Featuring Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Jennifer Gradecki & Derek Curry, Casey Kauffmann, Maya Man, Sarah Rothberg, and Ben Grosser. Curated by David...
Caution Bot Crossing – fragmentin
Artistic and critical reflection on the effects of automation and optimization technologies in our contemporary societies. Through works combining films, installations, and interactive devices, the exhibition question the place of humans, forms of responsibility, and modes of coexistence that emerge in environments increasingly structured by autonomous systems.
BotCamp 2026
A new edition of BotCamp, Eufònic’s programme connecting digital arts and rural context through coexistence, experimentation and process-based work. At the centre of the programme is BotCampLab, Eufònic’s “digital camp”. A space for coexistence and experimentation where artists, programmers and creators share four days of intensive work with a clear...
exonemo – Solo show at WAITINGROOM
Starting June 6, exonemo are doing a solo show at WAITINGROOM Gallery in Tokyo, themed around randomness. New works take centre stage, including "Hatch/et", "Connected the Random Dots" and "Rolled-and-Move," mixed in with older random-themed pieces from the archive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Algorithmic Imaginations – Critical Reflections on AI in Art and Design Practice
Algorithmic Imaginations offers an in-depth exploration of AI through the lens of art and design practice.
Recursive Apologies – Janet Zweig
In the early 1990s, artist Janet Zweig created prescient sculptures marrying early computers, algorithms, and dot-matrix printers.
Digital Tools – Slanted Magazine 47
Slanted Magazine 47 examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice. The Issue dives into the global creative scene and shows how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself.
Border Tuner – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Border Tuner documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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.
MUTEK 2017 – Connecting Montreal to four cultural metropoles
The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 18th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be hosting ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.
Rising Colorspace – Drawing robot and an evolving system that overwrites itself
Rising Colorspace is a new installation by the Sonice Development duo comprised of a third 'systemic robot' drawing it's rising movements as bow-like lines onto a shiny metallic wall.
Typeface “Seen” is preloaded with a set of “trigger words” that get crossed out
Seen is a project that deals with interception and filtering of our communications by the NSA, GCHQ and other security agencies. It is a typeface with a preloaded set of “trigger words” when written, the font immediately crosses them out.
Too Much Information – Keiichi Matsuda’s vision for augmented and mixed reality
Riding high on the wave of massive interest in his most recent work “Hyper-Reality,” which depicts a super-mediated Medellín, Colombia of the near future, director/designer Keiichi Matsuda chats with CAN about augmented reality, Silicon Valley, an...
Athletics of Transcendence – Legitimising computational constructs by analogical imposition
Athletics of Transcendence explores how traditional craftsmanship can appear to legitimise and provide depth to otherwise flat computational constructs.
School of Machines / Making & Make-Believe
Founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2014, School of MA provides unique, hands-on learning experiences at the intersection of art and technology in Europe. School's founder Rachel Uwa speaks to the instructors Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina abou...
Oil – Creation via deprivation, divestment and destruction
Created by Moscow based artist Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::, Oil is the latest in the series of installations by Dmitry that explore the relationship between the material and ephemeral in contemporary culture.
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.
Unlearning Language – Using AI to be less machine-like
Created by Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Unlearning Language is an interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.
Visions of America: Amériques – Walt Disney Concert Hall
Visions of America: Amériques is a site-specific architectural video installation, developed to illuminate and enhance the Varèse's composition and to activate the architecture of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Perlin Sphere GLSL to Quarz Composer
Created by Cybero, the following are Quarz Composer video renders of a Perlin Sphere GLSL shader. Originally developed by Inigo Quilez and ported to QC with added audio interactivity , two texture channels, [noise and waveform image] and audio spe...
