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When Julian Oliver, Arturo Castro and James George finally get to work on Google’s most wanted/feared device. We are watching you and hope you will come soon with a project that will set the tone and give relevant food for the critical engineers we all should be.
04/08/2013Created by Julian Oliver and commissioned by the Konstmuseet i Skövde, HARVEST is a work of critical engineering and computational climate art. It uses wind-energy to mine cryptocurrency, the earnings of which are used as a source of funding for climate-change research.
18/09/2017As 2017 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular peformances, large scale installations, devices and tools to the new virtual spaces for artistic exploration – so many great projects are being added to the CAN archive! Here are a just few, 25 in total, that we and you enjoyed the most this year.
22/12/2017Taking place in Montréal on Oct 1st-3rd, the second edition of MUTEK_IMG takes a deep dive into the creative possibilities of VR and immersive media.
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24/02/2012Resonate 2012 – 2018 – Exploring art, media and technology. Belgrade, Serbia. Founded by Maria Jelesijevic, Jelena Nesic, Filip Visnjic and Eduard Prats Molner in 2011 together with the close collaborator Dragan Ambrozic, first Resonate took place in 2012. Festival grew each year, both in audience, participants and those involved in making it happen. It…
14/03/2022In 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.
14/02/2020Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
25/07/2019SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
21/06/2019From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
07/05/2019The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
31/03/2017Unhanded was a symposium about ‘making under the influence of digitalism’ that took place in Ottawa last September. CAN was on hand to facilitate one of the discussions, and to mark the publication of the videos online we offer some highlights and thoughts on the proceedings.
22/03/2017Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
31/01/2017From the paradoxical nature of our impending quantum (computing) future to the enduring mystery of the Big Bang – the ideas explored in HOLO 2 could not be any bigger. We think it shows.
23/11/2016Every once in a while a project comes along that will change how we think, discuss and produce digital art. Four+ years in development, FRAMED* will not just be a canvas, but a platform and a community hub for the art of our generation.
21/07/2014For the third time, KIKK Festival will take over Namur (Belgium) to showcase the latest movers and shakers in the worlds of digital art and design. KIKK brings together the world’s most talented creative coders, innovators, designers, artists and researchers.
31/08/2013Interview with Zach Lieberman, Jen Lowe, Amit Pitaru and Taeyoon Choi about the soon-to-launch School for Poetic Computation (SFPC).
01/07/2013The Carp and the Seagull is an interactive short film about one man’s encounter with the spirit world and his fall from grace. It is a user driven narrative that tells a single story through the prism of two connected spaces. One space is the natural world and the other is the spirit or nether world.
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23/11/2011Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. Join us today by becoming a Member. Archive: More than 3,500 project profiles, scores of essays, interviews and reviews.Publish: Post your projects, events, announcements.No Ads: No advertisements, miners, banners.Education: Tutorials (beginners and advanced) with code examples, downloads.Jobs Archive: Find employers who have recruited here in the past…
20/02/2011Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. Join us today by becoming a Member. Archive: More than 3,500 project profiles, scores of essays, interviews and reviews.Publish: Post your projects, events, announcements.No Ads: No advertisements, miners, banners.Education: Tutorials (beginners and advanced) with code examples, downloads.Jobs Archive: Find employers who have recruited here in the past…
17/01/2011Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. Join us today by becoming a Member. Archive: More than 3,500 project profiles, scores of essays, interviews and reviews.Publish: Post your projects, events, announcements.No Ads: No advertisements, miners, banners.Education: Tutorials (beginners and advanced) with code examples, downloads.Jobs Archive: Find employers who have recruited here in the past…
31/12/2010When Julian Oliver, Arturo Castro and James George finally get to work on Google’s most wanted/feared device. We are watching you and hope you will come soon with a project that will set the tone and give relevant food for the critical engineers we all should be.
Tags: Arturo Castro / computer vision / device / facial recognition / google glass / hacking / james george / Julian Oliver / News / technology
Created by Julian Oliver and commissioned by the Konstmuseet i Skövde, HARVEST is a work of critical engineering and computational climate art. It uses wind-energy to mine cryptocurrency, the earnings of which are used as a source of funding for climate-change research.
Tags: climate / climate art / computation / critical engineering / cryptocurrency / Environment / featured / funding / Julian Oliver / mining / nature / power / research / wind
As 2017 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular peformances, large scale installations, devices and tools to the new virtual spaces for artistic exploration – so many great projects are being added to the CAN archive! Here are a just few, 25 in total, that we and you enjoyed the most this year.
Tags: ai / Andrej Boleslavský / AR / artificiel / automato / autonomous / Benedikt Groß / Bjørn Karmann / creativeappsnet / cryptocurrency / Damian KulashJr / dance / David Colombini / David OReilly / Denial of Service / device / Dimitri Gelfand / Dries Depoorter / Evelina Domnitch / Games / glitch / Google Data Arts Team / installation / James Paterson / Jeremy Rotsztain / Joey Lee / Johannes Lohbihler / Jonas Eltes / Julian Oliver / Kimchi and Chips / laser / light / Mária Júdová / Moniker / MR / music / music video / NEOANALOG / neural network / onformative / performance / Push 1 stop / Raphael Reimann / Refik Anadol Studio / rhizomatiks / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Ryoji Ikeda / Sound / studio puckey / Ted Davis / tools / vehicles / vr / Woulg / Yusuke Tanaka
Taking place in Montréal on Oct 1st-3rd, the second edition of MUTEK_IMG takes a deep dive into the creative possibilities of VR and immersive media.
Tags: Darsha Hewitt / exhibition / festival / immersive / Julian Oliver / Marshmallow Laser Feast / Moment Factory / montreal / MUTEK / NFB / phi centre / projection mapping / vr
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Tags: Android / data / design / disrupted networks / industrial design / internet / Julian Oliver / mapping / networks / open data / politics
Resonate 2012 – 2018 – Exploring art, media and technology. Belgrade, Serbia. Founded by Maria Jelesijevic, Jelena Nesic, Filip Visnjic and Eduard Prats Molner in 2011 together with the close collaborator Dragan Ambrozic, first Resonate took place in 2012. Festival grew each year, both in audience, participants and those involved in making it happen. It…
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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.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / ai / Ala Tannir / Alan Warburton / artificial intelligence / Bianca Berning / Bianca Berning (Dalton Maag) / Cathy O’Neil / Christian Kaegi (Qwestion) / Christian Mio Loclair (Waltz Binaire) / cloud computing / Davide Fornari / Dev Joshi / ecal / ECAL Research Day / EPFL+ECAL Lab / Fabrice Aeberhard (Viu) / featured / ghosts / Haunted Machines / Hugues Vinet (IRCAM) / Impakt Festival / IRCAM / James Bridle / Kai Bernau / Kate Crawford / machine learning / Mario de Vega / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / max bense / Natalie D Kane / Natalie Kane / Neri Oxman / Nicolas Henchoz / Nicolas Nova / Patrick Keller / Random International / skylar tibbits / sustainability / Thilo Alex Brunner / Tobias Revell / v&a / Waltz Binaire
Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
Tags: aadrl / Andreas Gysin / art / can / can event / cci / creative computing institute / cross-disciplinary / design / document / Eva Rucki / Events / Gysin & Vanetti / London / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / Minimaforms / Revital Cohen / student / Theodore Spyropoulos / Troika / UAL
SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
Tags: 3-5954A handheld transceiver / acrylic / Alexander Miller / Apple computer / arduino / Ariel Uzal / AxiDraw / Bomani Oseni McClendon / c++ / Cardioid microphone / Celine Wong Katzman / cellular automata / Cement / digital camera / e-ink display / electronics / featured / FIlip Wolak / gif / Greg Sadetsky / ImageMagick / infrared / invisible ink / iPhone / javascript / Javier de Azkue / Joseph Wilk / Juan Miguel Marin / Luisa Fabrizi / madmapper / Mar G. Mcmahon / MaxMSP / Melissa Holmes / micro-controller / mirror / Model Magic clay / motor / OBS / openFrameworks / paper / pen / piezo sensor / Plywood / polycarbonate tube / Printed paper / projector / python / PyTorch / Raspberry Pi / receipt printer / resistor / Rockite / Sara Khan / servo motor / SFPC / Sheldon Chang / SN74HC595N multiplexer / Stefan Pelikan / Stefanie Schirmer / tablet / Taeyoon Choi / Vivienne La / voice / webcam / website / Yehwan Song
From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
Tags: artificial intelligence / Augmented Creativity / Bratislava / Cod.Act / Cognitive Science / Douglas Engelbart / Embodied Cognition / event / festival / Human Computer Interaction / Intelligence Augmentation / Kimchi and Chips / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / memo akten / rulr / Sensorium / Slovakia / Stefanie Posavec
The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
Tags: ai / art / automation / barcelona / bruce sterling / design / Events / Inspiration / installation / media / panel discussion / politics / tickets / UBI
Unhanded was a symposium about ‘making under the influence of digitalism’ that took place in Ottawa last September. CAN was on hand to facilitate one of the discussions, and to mark the publication of the videos online we offer some highlights and thoughts on the proceedings.
Tags: 3d printing / artengine / autodesk / conference / craft / critical making / Digital Fabrication / event / featured / Garnet Hertz / Greg Sims / James Hayes / Joanna Berzowska / make / Maker Faire / making / Ottawa / Rachel Gotlieb / Sandra Alfoldy / Sarah Brin / Steven Loft / symposium / Tom Bessai / Valerie Lamontagne / wearable
Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Tags: anthony dunne / bartlett / choreography / critical making / DfPI / education / Felix Faire / fiona raby / interactive architecture lab / interview / Lin Tang / London / mit media lab / Nicholas Negroponte / pedgagoy / Ranulph Glanville / rca / robotics / Ruairi Glynn / speculative design / Stephen Gage
From the paradoxical nature of our impending quantum (computing) future to the enduring mystery of the Big Bang – the ideas explored in HOLO 2 could not be any bigger. We think it shows.
Tags: Alexander Scholz / Anne Gabriel-Jürgens / announcement / art / Casey Reas / Cedric Flazinski / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Rourke / Daniel Shiffman / Daniel West / Dorothy Feaver / Eva Hillreiner / Fanqiao Wang / featured / Geoff Manaugh / Georgina Voss / Greg J. Smith / holo / Jacopo Atzori / James Pearson-Howes / Jim Rossignol / Jürg Lehni / karsten schmidt / Katie Paterson / ludwig zeller / magazine / Michelle Kasprzak / Mitchell Whitelaw / Nina Lüth / oculus rift / Paul Prudence / Peter Stemmler / publication / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Rick Pushinsky / Robin Maddock / Ryoichi Kurokawa / science / Scott Smith / Sherry Kennedy / Simon Parkin / tale of tales / technology / Ted Davis / Timo Arnall / Vera Molnar / Vera Sacchetti / Victor Nomoto / Vincent Tsang / vr / Will Wiles / Ye Rin Mok / zmyk
Every once in a while a project comes along that will change how we think, discuss and produce digital art. Four+ years in development, FRAMED* will not just be a canvas, but a platform and a community hub for the art of our generation.
Tags: art / community / digital art / featured / ffffound / framed / kickstarter / launch / openframworks / Processing / screen / screen-based art / web / william lai / yugo nakamura
For the third time, KIKK Festival will take over Namur (Belgium) to showcase the latest movers and shakers in the worlds of digital art and design. KIKK brings together the world’s most talented creative coders, innovators, designers, artists and researchers.
Tags: advertorial / art / belgium / creative code / design / digital art / Events / Innovation / kikk festival / research
Interview with Zach Lieberman, Jen Lowe, Amit Pitaru and Taeyoon Choi about the soon-to-launch School for Poetic Computation (SFPC).
Tags: Amit Pitaru / education / Jen Lowe / SFPC / Taeyoon Choi / Zach Lieberman
The Carp and the Seagull is an interactive short film about one man’s encounter with the spirit world and his fall from grace. It is a user driven narrative that tells a single story through the prism of two connected spaces. One space is the natural world and the other is the spirit or nether world.
Tags: animation / Evan Boehm / film / interactive / javascript / narrative / nexus interactive / story telling / the creators project / threejs / webgl
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