2014 Archive

Archive of all projects published in the year 2014

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05/08/2014

Members / News

Di-Dah-Dit – A telepresence device by Camille Morizot

Di-Dah-Dit is a telepresence device that takes the form of two distant objects connected. Two players face each other and manage the progress of a ball balancing on two rails.

05/08/2014

Arduino / Members

Generative Scarves – Procedural algorithm to wearable pattern

Generative Scarves for iOS includes a procedural algorithm commonly used to digitally generate patterns of the natural world, sampled into a bespoke application and used to create unique print for an individual scarf.

01/08/2014

iOS / Members / openFrameworks

Eyeo presents INST-INT: A focus on interactive installations & responsive projects

Don’t miss this INST-INT if you’re interested in interactive experiences in the physical space, responsive environments and the sensing systems they incorporate. INST-INT presents a unique chance to connect and learn from an international roster of first class creators sharing insights from the intersection of art, technology and interaction.

01/08/2014

Members / Sponsored

Cloud Piano (2014) by David Bowen

Cloud Piano plays the keys of a piano based on the movements and shapes of the clouds. A camera pointed at the sky captures video of the clouds. MaxMSP patch uses the video of the clouds in real-time to drive a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys on the piano.

31/07/2014

MaxMSP / Members

School for poetic computation (SFPC) – Call for the Fall 2014 term

School for poetic computation (SFPC) recently opened a new call for participants for the Fall 2014 term. In this post, Taeyoon Choi, one of the co-founders and teachers at the SFPC, looks back.

28/07/2014

Education / Members

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.

25/07/2014

Arduino / Members / Robotics

Generative Typography with Processing – Tutorial

Through an inspiring tutorial with 26 code examples Amnon Owed shows you how to use Processing to explore the creative possibilities of generative typography.

22/07/2014

Featured / Members / Processing / Tutorials

FRAMED* – Canvas for the art of our generation

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.

21/07/2014

iOS / Javascript / Objects / openFrameworks / Processing

Icon do better – Exploring emergent property of exchanging symbols

Created by Ed Burton, Icon do better takes on a smart social twist of classic game combined with icon making.

21/07/2014

iOS / Members / openFrameworks

Giving More to Gain More (2014) – Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

A series of aluminium structures with programmable LED strips, constructing fragments of text that originated in the process of sourcing electronic components from China.

18/07/2014

Events / Members / Objects

Displayce

18/07/2014

Members / News

Kepler’s Dream – Mixing digital aesthetics and the otherworldly

Kepler’s Dream is an aesthetics exploration investigating analog projection in combination with computationally created object which is given a physical shape through 3D printing

16/07/2014

Members / Objects

Light Barrier – Millions of calibrated light beams create floating phantoms in the air

Light Barrier by Kimchi and Chips creates phantoms of light in the air by crossing millions of calibrated beams, creating floating graphic objects which animate through space.

14/07/2014

Members / vvvv

Smile TV – It works only when you smile

Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg’s Smile TV turns the medium’s engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to “smile to watch”.

09/07/2014

MaxMSP / Members / Objects

push.conf is back for a unique blend of innovative interactions and user experience!

For the third time, Munich will be all about the combination of interface design and innovative experiences. push.conference unites interaction designers, creative coders and UX professionals to shape the future of our field.

08/07/2014

Members / Sponsored

Satellite pictures of airports reveal their extreme complexity

08/07/2014

Members / News

Play the World – Listening to the global soundscape that surrounds us

Play the World invites visitors to perform with a keyboard that finds samples with the same note in near realtime from web radio stations around the world.

08/07/2014

Members / openFrameworks

Epilog – Interactive Light and Shadow by Schnellebuntebilder

Epilog is a room installation that uses light, sound and haze to create a 25-minute constantly transforming world of moving images and sounds.

04/07/2014

Members / vvvv

Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator at the Tschumi Pavilion

Inspired by CERN’s “Large Hadron Collider”, Niklas Roy creates an installation at the Tschumi Pavilion in Groningen in the Netherlands that contains 1000 black sponge balls, which are sucked through 150m of transparent pneumatic tubes at high speed.

03/07/2014

Arduino / Members

Ninety Six – Inflatable pixels by Nils Völker

Ninety Six is a site specific installation comprised of 96 plastic bags that are selectively inflated and deflated in controlled rhythms, creating wavelike animations across the wall of the gallery.

01/07/2014

Arduino / Members

Future Unfolding – Procedurally generated world, both beautiful and dangerous

Future Unfolding is a new game by Berlin based game studio Spaces of Play. It is a role playing game where each play-through allows you to experience a new and different layout and find your own way to the goal.

26/06/2014

Games / Members

Beyond Blood – Emotional attachment and inheritance by algorithm

‘Beyond Blood’ is a project that imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates.

25/06/2014

Members / Processing

Patch of Sky – Lamps that share, in real-time, the sky above us

Created at FABRICA, Patch of Sky is a set of three Internet connected ambient lamps that share, in real-time, the sky above us.

24/06/2014

Arduino / Members

Lunar Surface – Drawing digital mass in physical space

Lunar Surface is the latest in the series of projects by the Kimchi and Chips duo investigating digital light as a semi-material to articulate digital visual mass in physical space.

19/06/2014

Featured / Members / vvvv

Computational Fashion Master Class: Call for Participants | Eyebeam

19/06/2014

Members / News

SUNSET – a first-person videogame thriller by Tale of Tales

19/06/2014

Members / News

Nimbes – Exploring solitary nature of perception and observation

Nimbes is an audio-visual installation designed for 360º immersive environments exploring boundaries between natural and artificial, and questioning the solitary nature of perception and observation and their relationship to both the cosmic and human scale.

18/06/2014

Environment / Members

Weird Second-order Loops – Generative individuality and circumstance

Weird Second-order Loops is a series of computer-generated animation loops that never repeat. Each of the loops is centred around a playful and simple cyclical idea that is a procedural reinterpretation of a long existing animation cliché, potentiating it ad infinitum.

18/06/2014

Featured / Javascript / Members / Paper Js

A/Visions, Synesthetic Fever Dreams – A Report on EM15

A report on the CAN/HOLO artist Q&A sessions and related audiovisual performances at Montreal’s EM15 festival, which was jointly organized by the teams behind MUTEK and Elektra.

17/06/2014

CAN Events

Minibuilders – Small Robots x Large Sculptures

Minibuilders is a research project comprised of a family of small-scale construction robots designed to perform diverse tasks, linked to the different phases of construction, finally working together as a family towards the implementation of a single structural outcome.

16/06/2014

Environment / Members / Objects / Robotics

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.

13/06/2014

Members / Processing

Patatap – Portable animation and sound kit by jonobr1 and Lullatone

Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit for iOS that allows you to play with versatile melodies charged with colourful geometric graphics.

10/06/2014

iOS / Javascript / Members

Discovery Wall – Screen made from thousands of iPod Nanos

Created by London-based creative agencies Squint/Opera and Hirsch&Mann, Discovery Wall is a wall-sized installation created from thousands of tiny screens and lenses.

06/06/2014

Featured / Members

HOLO 1 – “The magazine I always wanted to read!”

With HOLO 1 being in the world for a little more than two months, the conversations about the first issue of CAN’s 226-page magazine are beginning to shift. Instead of “Congratulations!” people now ask “How’s the magazine doing?”

05/06/2014

HOLO

He Liked Thick Word Soup – Software experiment about text, space and time

He Liked Thick Word Soup is the latest experiment in the Chronotext series, a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time.

05/06/2014

Android / Cinder / iOS / Members

H / AlCuTaAu – An ore mined out of technological objects

H / ALCUTAAU is an object created using precious metals and stones mined out of technological objects and transformed back into mineral form.

04/06/2014

Members / Objects

White Does Not Exist – Synthetic colour by Flavien Théry

Flavien Théry explores the reverse of Newton disc where patterned disc, rotated at high speed, produces an optical illusion of colour.

04/06/2014

Arduino / Members / Objects

roBOt Festival – CALL4ROBOT 2014

30/05/2014

Members / News

Mechanical (Interactive) Cartoon Installation by Eunyoung Park

Eunyoung Park explores the awkwardness of gaze in this installation comprised of Arduino, ultrasonic ping sensors and cardboard.

30/05/2014

Arduino / Members

Hit The Beat – Physical drum machine by Lorenzo Bravi

Hit The Beat is a physical drum machine that can play *anything*, making it possible for everyday objects to become musical instruments.

29/05/2014

Arduino / Members / Sound

Emergence – Installation by Cinimod for Heathrow Terminal 2

Commissioned by Caviar House & Prunier for London Heathrow Terminal 2, “Emergence” is a new light installation by London based Cinimod studio.

28/05/2014

Environment / Members / vvvv

Make Longer Cables – Short film by students at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd

Make Longer Cables is a short film including a custom made five-axis robotic arm that is trying to escape monotony by committing suicide.

27/05/2014

Arduino / Members

Fari – Choreographed array of moving light heads

Created by Andreas Gysin in collaboration with Sidi Vanetti, Fari is a kinetic installation created with an array of moving light heads in a geometric configuration and programmed as a choreography.

27/05/2014

Members / Processing

PhonoPaper for iOS/Android – Graphical sound generator and writer

Created by Alexander Zolotov, PhonoPaper is a format of graphical representation of the sound (music, human voice, etc.); in other words, it is the 2D audio barcode (by analogy with the QR-code).

16/05/2014

Android / iOS / Members

EM15, May 27 – June 1, 2014

As part of EM15 in Montreal, CAN will be organising live Q&A sessions with audiovisual performers Matthew Biederman and Alan Thibault, and Paul Prudence.

15/05/2014

CAN Events

Internet Machine – Invisible infrastructures of the internet

Produced by Timo Arnall, Internet Machine is a multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet. The film was made to reveal hidden materiality of our data by exploring some of the machines through which ‘the cloud’ is transmitted and transformed.

15/05/2014

Events / Members

Playground NDSM – Interactive photomontage of 7 years at NDSM-warf / Amsterdam

Created by Marc Faasse, Playground NDSM is an interactive photomontage that includes 7 years of photographs taken by Marc and mapped on the googlemaps.

14/05/2014

Members / WebApp

Sablo for iOS – Exploring the nebulous boundary between order and chaos

Created by Ernst Uys, Sablo for iOS lets you explore the boundary between order and chaos using the Abelian Sandpile model (also known as the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld model) in theoretical physics.

13/05/2014

iOS / Members

The Obverse Box – Deru fuses sound, light, and artifact

“The Obverse Box” is a pico projector encased within a CNC-milled block of walnut, a “limited-edition sculptural object” to be released alongside American electronic musician Deru’s forthcoming album “1979”.

12/05/2014

Members / Objects

Robert Henke ‘Lumière’ – Cutting the room with vectors and lasers

As Robert Henke sets of on his tour with the new project Lumière, kicking off in NYC on the 10th May, we offer a little preview of what is to come.

09/05/2014

Events / Members

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