Camera Restricta – A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs

Created by Philipp Schmitt, Camera Restricta is a camera that locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can’t take any more pictures here.

08/09/2015

iOS / Members / Objects

À la recherche – Points of reflected light at the club Les Bains

Latest in the series of mesmerising installations by ART+COM is À la recherche, a site specific installation that covers the surrounding walls of a newly refurbished legendary Les Bains nightclub in scattered points of reflected light.

07/09/2015

Environment / Members

NO_THING – An infrared light framework that turns (almost) anything into a device

Developed by the Innovation Lab of Milla & Partner GmbH, a German interaction and spatial design agency based in Stuttgart and Berlin, NO_THING is a tracking and mapping framework that uses infrared light to turn portable physical objects into interactive displays.

04/09/2015

Members / openFrameworks

Fe₂O₃ Glyphs on Kickstarter

Created by multi-award winning typographer Craig Ward and experimental photographer Linden Gledhill, Fe₂O₃ Glyphs is a generative ornamental typeface accompanied by a series of unique letterpress prints in a mixture of ferrofluid and Pantone ink.

03/09/2015

Members / News

An Sich (The Thing Itself) – The significance of physical manifestation of information

Created by Schunck Dölker (Felix Dölker and Florian Schunck) and first shown at Unwrap (University for Applied Sciences Darmstadt), An Sich explores perception and processing of information in a time that is characterized by changes in the way information is consumed.

03/09/2015

Arduino / Members

Trace Ribbon – An emergence by movement

Created by Shohei Fujimoto, Trace Ribbon is a device that automatically and continuously records and plays back movement. From reading the movements of the user via Leap Motion, it mirrors an organism that does not actually exist while simultaneously gaining an understanding of the rules of the movements that are physically taking place.

25/08/2015

Members / openFrameworks

The Architecture of Radio – Visualizing the invisible architecture of networks

Created by Richard Vijgen, The Architecture of Radio is a site-specific iPad application that visualizes this network of networks by reversing the ambient nature of the infosphere; hiding the visible while revealing the invisible technological landscape we interact with through our devices.

24/08/2015

iOS / Members / Three Js

Call for Submissions – TIFF Kids digiPlaySpace 2016

TIFF Kids’ digiPlaySpace (an “interactive exhibition for ages 3 through 13”) is looking for fun and educational projects to feature in their 2016 program.

23/08/2015

Members / News

GLASS / G3DP – 3D printing of optically transparent glass

Created as a collaboration between Mediated Matter Group (MIT Media Lab) and the Glass Lab (MIT), GLASS G3DP is a additive manufacturing process that enables 3d printing of optically transparent glass that also allows tunability by geometrical and optical variation that drives form, transparency, color variation, reflection and refraction in all things glass.

20/08/2015

Members / Objects

Call for Drone Art

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16/08/2015

Members / News

An Auto-Multiscopic Projector Array for Interactive Digital Humans

Presented at the recent Siggraph, Automultiscopic 3D displays allow a large number of viewers to experience 3D content simultaneously without the special glasses or head gear.

13/08/2015

Members / News

Acoustruments: Passive, Acoustically Driven, Interactive Controls for Handheld Devices

Presented at the recent Siggraph and coming out of Disney research labs, this project proposes the idea of Acoustruments – low-cost, passive, power-less mechanisms, made from plastic that can bring tangible functionality to handheld devices.

13/08/2015

Members / News

Ink Space – Experimental drawing tool and Rhonda tribute

Created by Zach Liebermann and part of the Android Experiments initiative, Ink Space is a experimental drawing tool which uses the accelerometer on your Android device to move the drawings you make in 3D.

13/08/2015

Android / Members / openFrameworks

Carolina – Experimental musical landscape for Kimbra

Carolina is an experimental musical landscape for mobile composed of vocals, guitars, bass and mellotrons made in collaboration with music artist Kimbra for her album release, The Golden Echo

12/08/2015

Android / Members / Three Js

Conditional_Lover – A physical bot that automates your Tinder

Conditional_Lover is a bot that unlike its counterparts that live hidden in servers, has a physical appearance with a task to automate your Tinder using its “eyes” and “fingers”. It does this by analysing photos on your phone (webcam) and then selects or rejects it (prongs) based on an algorithm that combines your preferred age, golden ratio, smile, glasses, ethnicity etc.

10/08/2015

Arduino / Members / Processing

Codedoodles – New platform for showcasing experiments built with web technologies

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05/08/2015

Members / News

Waiting for Bárðarbunga – Non-Linear Landscape Cinema

Created by François Quévillon, Waiting for Bárðarbunga is an installaton made of hundreds of video sequences which are presented according to a probabilistic system influenced by real-time sensor information coming from the computer that displays them.

31/07/2015

Members / openFrameworks

Rhythmic Gymnastics – Denso robotic arm and the sensibility of human movement

Created by the team at FIG.- Amana Prototyping Lab in Japan, Rhythmic Gymnastics is a practical experiment using a Denso VS-050S2 robotic arm. In this experiment the aim is to represent the sensibility of human movement using harsh robot mechanics.

30/07/2015

Members / openFrameworks / Robotics

Definitions – Computational poetry using MIT’s ConceptNet

Created by Bryan Ma at Parsons, Definitions is a computational poetry installation made up of 15 networked LCDs that searches MIT’s ConceptNet to serve as a metaphor for the use of NLP in commoditizing human activity on the internet.

27/07/2015

Arduino / Members / Processing

A Manual for Urban Projection (MUP) by Ali Momeni — Kickstarter

MUP is a guide for people projecting images in public places, providing concepts, tools, resources, and recipes for urban projection. The project is currently looking for support via Kickstarter.

22/07/2015

Members / News

F21Thread – A display made of 6,400 spools of thread

A 2,000 lb machine that uses 6,400 mechanical spools of thread to display Instagrams is the latest project by NY based collaborative BREAKFAST. The team are streaming live online 24 hours a day from July 22-28th, and users receive an auto-edited video of their Instagrams being displayed on the screen.

22/07/2015

Members / Objects

The Original Net Artists? Toronto Telidon

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21/07/2015

Members / News

Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter

Created by Dana Zelig, Traces project explores the concept of programming everyday materials, a form of “physical programming” where objects are “made to act” on some form following specific instructions.

21/07/2015

Members / Processing

Sprint: digital creative residency – Rambert

Sprint are looking for artists and creatives working with technology as a medium to experiment and develop their practice, and who wish to work in close collaboration with Rambert’s dancers, choreographers and staff.

20/07/2015

Members / News

Longitude and latitude – David Bowen’s CNC routed sculptures capture the waves

Created by David Bowen and titled “46°41’58.365″ lat. -91°59’49.0128″ long. @ 30m”, is a collection of five CNC routed clear acrylic cylinders capturing the water surface data from the source location.

16/07/2015

Members / Objects

Thymio meets ECAL – A workshop with 50 Thymio Robots

Earlier this year at ECAL (Lausanne/Switzerland), students were asked to develop projects using the Thymio robot during a one week workshop. Students worked then in group with the task to make Thymio(s) write a word, all those words was then put together to form a sentences that you can discover in the video below.

14/07/2015

Education / Members

Artificial Killing Machine – Visualizing U.S. military drone strikes

Created by Jonathan Fletcher Moore, Artificial Killing Machine is an autonomous mechanical installation that uses the public database on U.S. military drone strikes to visualise deaths of individuals that would otherwise be represented purely as statistical data.

13/07/2015

Linux / Members

Sound Revival – Visual identity and objectification of digital sound effects

Created by James Boock, Sound Revival is a range of objects and a custom 3-Way sound system that uses the analogue means of materials and mechanical movements to manipulate sound.


10/07/2015

Members / Sound

Open Call for ‘Creators in Lab’ at ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea

As part of a major festival collaboration later in the year, CAN is excited to announce the launch of the ‘Creators in Lab’ residency program at the brand new ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea. Interdisciplinary practitioners take note!

09/07/2015

CAN Events

War or Peace – New ‘wall-clock poem’ by Zach Gage

War or Piece is a ‘slow generative work’ by Zach Gage, where the word (war or peace) on the website appears to be a single static word, the content of the site is actually generated once per day by a Google Trends search for the queries “war” and “peace”.

08/07/2015

Members / News

Indirect Flights – Sprawling landscape of layered images

Raw materials, satellite images, organic textures, brush strokes and architectural fragments are all blended together into a dense Google Maps style panorama extending in all directions.

08/07/2015

Javascript / Members

Knotty Objects – Event at the MIT Media Lab examining the antidisciplinary future of design / Live Stream

Knotty Objects is a forum for wide-ranging discussions around the confluences of design, science, technology and the arts.

08/07/2015

Members / News

Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory

Developed at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group, Living Mushtari is a 3D printed wearable with 58 meters of internal fluid channels designed to function as a wearable microbial factory that uses synthetic microorganisms to convert sunlight into useful products for the wearer.

06/07/2015

Members / Objects

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.

03/07/2015

Members / News

Kabbalistic Synthesizer – Waveforms by macrocosmic phenomena

Created by Sam Conran at the RCA/Design Interactions, the Kabbalistic Synthesizer is a is a musical synthesiser that operates using waveforms generated by the Earths magnetic field, noise via magnetic storms of Jupiter and keyboard via cosmic rays.

01/07/2015

MaxMSP / Members / Sound

Considering Technology and the State of the Art(s) at Sónar+D

CAN’s report on Sónar+D, the Sónar Festival’s sidebar congress on ‘creativity, technology & business’ that took place June 18th-20th in Barcelona.

29/06/2015

Members / Review

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.

29/06/2015

Arduino / Members

High-Speed Horizons – Counterfactual history of supersonic flight

Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through projected visions of alternative energies and flight.

25/06/2015

Members / Theory

Broken Sound – Gary James Joynes Contemplates Silence and Fragility

Gary James Joynes’ “Broken Sound” is an immersive video installation that ‘builds a world’ out of the frazzled remnants of speaker coils he destroyed through his ongoing cymatics research.

25/06/2015

Environment / Members

Connected Worlds – Interactive ecosystem for NYSCI by Design I/O

Created by Cambridge (US) based creative studio Design I/O, Connected Worlds is a large scale immersive, interactive ecosystem developed for the New York Hall of Science.

24/06/2015

Members / openFrameworks

The Network Ensemble – Device to sonically uncover and amplify the invisible territory of networks

Created by Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini, The Network Ensemble is a tool to sonically uncover and amplify the invisible territory of the networks that sit between our offline and online experiences.

23/06/2015

Arduino / Javascript / Members

Team Eyeo presents INSTINT v3: Creators sharing process + insight & enabling creators

If you create interactive experiences you’ll want to check out the third annual INSTINT. The event assembles an international roster of artists/makers/designers who explore the intersection of art, technology and interaction. If youʼre interested in installation art, interactive art, responsive environments, smart objects, and the art of creating engaging experiences this event is for you. September 2015. Workshops + Lectures. 300 people. (60 tickets left as of 6/15/15).

23/06/2015

Members / News

HOLO 2 – An Illustrated Countdown

The thrill of wrapping up! As HOLO 2 nears completion, a world of detail falls into place. Excited yet? Here are ten (more) reasons why we are. The restless (color coded) loop of featured artist Jürg Lehni’s Flood Fill – Clock (2009) shown above couldn’t capture the current, final, stage of magazine production any better.…

18/06/2015

HOLO

Backseats in Video Games by Leonardo Sang

Created by Leonardo Sang, Sao Paulo based graphic designer with a passion for games, Backseats in Video Games consists of images taken “from the backseat” of a car.

17/06/2015

Members / News

Pow2045 – Generative design meets urban choreography

Pow2045 is a dance performance that combines generative design with urban choreography, focusing on a personal perspective towards duetts of man and machine.

16/06/2015

Members / vvvv

Agent-Based Computational Design by Satoru Sugihara at AA[n+1], Paris

This exhibition at AA[n+1] in Paris of work by Satoru Sugihara includes a range of computational design works from built facade designs, agent-based architectural design studies to cellular growth algorithm researches.

12/06/2015

Members / News

23-3d-beach-sand-wallpaper – Julieta Gil

Created by Julieta Gil, 23-3d-beach-sand-wallpaper presents simultaneous illusion and reality of space that is both a simulation of an interior and the exterior, combined into one, and presented as physical installation.

11/06/2015

Members / News

In Theory and in Practice – Audiovisual Performance at MUTEK 2015

CAN reports on MUTEK 2015’s audiovisual performance programming and the ‘HOLO encounters’ live Q&A’s we did with artists Robin Fox and Hiroaki Umeda.

11/06/2015

CAN Events

Choreographic Coding Labs in New York (27–31 Aug) and Los Angeles (14–19 Sept)

The next two Choreographic Coding Lab sessions, 27–31 August in New York and 14–19 September in Los Angeles, are open for applications.

09/06/2015

Members / News

Teaching and learning at SFPC, Conversation with Allison Parrish and Surya Mattu

School for poetic computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group in New York City. One of it’s founders, and teachers, Taeyoon Choi speaks to two artists who taught at SFPC, about their experience of teaching and artistic research.

08/06/2015

Education / Members

+++ / 48-hour non-stop nomadic event in the highlands of Serbia

After many years of organising events in Belgrade and around Europe and beyond, Dis-patch collective have decided to hit the woods and try something a bit different – a 48-hour non-stop nomadic event in the highlands of Serbia

08/06/2015

Members / News