Project Soli – World’s Tiniest Violin

Created by Design I/O, World’s Tiniest Violin is a ‘speed project’ that uses Google’s Project Soli – Alpha Dev Kit combined with the Wekinator machine learning tool and openFrameworks to detect small movements that look like someone playing a tiny violin and translate that to the volume and playback of a violin solo.

10/06/2016

Members / openFrameworks

Foxes Like Beacons – Open positioning system, and the politics of infrastructures

Created by Jochen Maria Weber, Foxes Like Beacons is an exploratory project using open data of public radio stations with inexpensive, low-power signal detection in order to create an open positioning system.

07/06/2016

Arduino / Members

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, and CGI shopping companions.

07/06/2016

Environment / Members

Terrapattern – Neural network visual search tool for satellite imagery

Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan’s students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.

25/05/2016

Javascript / Members / Processing

Artists and users regain control of technology at Sónar+D 2016

Sónar+D 2016, the 4th International Congress for Digital Culture and Creative Technologies will be held in Barcelona on 16, 17 and 18 June and takes place within Sónar by Day.

20/05/2016

Events / Members

Jller – Industrial automation and historical geology

Created as a collaboration between Prokop Bartoníček and Benjamin Maus, Jller is part of an their ongoing research in the field of industrial automation and historical geology. Installation includes an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age.

19/05/2016

Members / Processing

A-B-Z-TXT – A School for 21st Century Typography

Building on the experience of our past educational programming at ACT Festival, Resonate, and Circle of Light, CAN has partnered to launch a new initiative in Toronto this August. Our first North American event, A-B-Z-TXT is a school for 21st century typography.

18/05/2016

CAN Events / Members

Encounters & Revelry at MUTEK 2016

The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 16th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be having ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.

17/05/2016

CAN Events

Study for Fifteen Points – Random International

Created by Random International, Study for Fifteen Points explores the minimal amount of information that is necessary for the animated form to be recognised as human; and the fundamental impact created by subtle changes within that information.

16/05/2016

Members / Science

Blueprint – Pairing genetics and code, the blueprints of artificial and natural systems

Created by United Visual Artists, Blueprint is an installation designed to explore the relationship and parallels between natural and artificial systems – creating a visual composition that uses mathematical principles of logic that underpin life.

12/05/2016

Members / Processing

Open Call for ACC_R Creators in Lab / 2016 / Gwangju, South Korea

Following the last years’ call and the ACT festival we help organise and curate, we are pleased to share and support the 2016 CALL FOR RESIDENCIES at the Asian Culture Center.

12/05/2016

Education / Members / News

Mover Kit – Active wearable that kids make & code by Technology Will Save Us — Kickstarter

Launched today via a worldwide Kickstarter campaign, Mover Kit by Technology Will Save Us is part iconic accessory and part education tech toy that kids, young and old, make and code themselves.

12/05/2016

Members / News

Parasitic / Symbiotic – Nature and Technology

Created by Ann-Katrin Krenz, Parasitic / Symbiotic project explores the artificiality of nature, and whether a moderate and thoughtful technical interventions in nature can create something aesthetically valuable and permanent.

10/05/2016

Arduino / Members

Call for Entries: ZKM’s App Art Award 2016

Attention iOS and Android developers: win 10,000 EUR in five different categories by entering ZKM | Center for Art and Media’s 6th annual AppArtAward. Submission deadline: May 23d!

10/05/2016

Members / News

Machine Learning for Artists / ITP-NYU – Spring 2016

The following is a documentation of a new course ran by Gene Kogan on Machine Learning for Artists at ITP-NYU in spring 2016.

05/05/2016

Members / News

Kadenze Names May the International Month of Creative Code

Kadenze offers the opportunity to learn creative coding from world renowned instructors and artists. Explore p5.js and the nature of code. Learn ChucK, JavaScript, and web coding. Turn your Arduino into a machine-learning controller.

03/05/2016

Education / Members

FPS by Hugo Arcier at “Fantômes numériques” exhibition

Created by Hugo Arcier, FPS is an installation inspired by the November 2015 Paris attacks where the visitors are invited to interact with a game controller, constructing a “memorial” from gunshots, and the only visible elements are pyrotechnic effects, gunshots, muzzle flashes, sparks, impacts and smoke.

02/05/2016

Games / Members

75000 Futures – The algorithmic failures and impossible futures

Created by Gunnar Green and Bernhard Hopfengärtner, ‘75000 Futures’ assembles 240 stock charts which were produced by the 2010 flash crash and collected and named by a company that streams and stores realtime market data.

29/04/2016

Members / Objects

MIMPI – Mobile interactive multiparametric image

Created by Moscow based duo Stain, MIMPI (mobile interactive multiparametric image) is an experiment combining abstract generative image and simple multiuser interactivity.

28/04/2016

Members / vvvv

Three Machines on Transparency – Pursuing philosophical concepts as functional prototypes

Created by Jasna Dimitrovska as a part of her Digital Media – HfK Bremen, Master Theses, Three Machines on Transparency is comprised of three machines that by own demonstration allow the artist to synthesise philosophical concepts of different forms+ideas of transparency into the corporeality.

26/04/2016

Arduino / Members / Objects

Something Like Me / About Seeing Things – Akihiko Taniguchi

Latest in the series of productions by Japan’s BRDG label and Hip Land Music is the performance by Akihiko Taniguchi titled ‘Something Like Me / About Seeing Things’. The performance is a culmination of Akihiko research into VR and 3D scanning, rendering in real time, synchronized with real world time and presented using Pepper’s Ghost technique in Tokyo’s DMM VR theatre.

25/04/2016

Members / Unity

Adeus – The mechanistic and auditory implications of entropy

Created by João Costa, Adeus is a sound installation that explores concepts arising from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where the perfectly designed musical system eventually falls out of sync, mirroring the flaws and entropy inherent to human nature.

22/04/2016

Arduino / Members / Sound

Order+Noise (Interface I) – Negotiating the boundary of randomness

Created by Ralf Baecker and opening this week at the NOME gallery in Berlin, Order+Noise (Interface I) investigates the boundary and space created by two interacting systems that are set in motion by the random signals of Geiger-Müller tubes.

21/04/2016

Members / Objects / Science

Hortum Machina, B – Speculative urban cyber-gardener

Created by Danilo Sampaio and William Victor Camilleri at the The Interactive Architecture Lab at UCL/London, Hortum Machina, B is a half garden, half machine, cybernetic lifeform that explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between people and nature, within the built environment.

18/04/2016

Arduino / Environment / Members / Robotics

Making openFrameworks Work – Users and educators gather in Denver, Colorado

In late February 2016, a group of openFrameworks users and educators gathered in Denver Colorado to work on improving the ways people learn and use openFrameworks (OF). They worked intensely for 3.5 days, 12 hours per day, collectively committing more than 800 people-hours to creating and improving openFrameworks learning resources to help students around the world learn how to create with this powerful digital arts and design tool.

18/04/2016

Members / openFrameworks

Art after Silicon Valley – A conversation with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts team

The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts has been active in San Francisco for a decade. On the eve of the second edition of their eponymous festival, CAN chats with the Gray Area team about their ongoing educational and programming initiatives.

13/04/2016

Education / Events / Members

Precious Plastic – DIY plastic recycling and manufacturing

Precious Plastics is a new initiative that disseminates instructions for DIY plastic recycling and manufacturing.

11/04/2016

Members / News

Poetic Router – A tribute to the age of network awareness

Created by Saurabh Datta (automato), Poetic Router is a project that investigates the potential of the everyday manufactured IoT platforms beyond what is commonly discussed. Whereas most concerns of IoT are focused on security since every “Chip-‘ed” device is hackable and can be jacked and modded remotely. Poetic Router explores network transmission as a way to generate poetry by scraping the data found on the server links.

11/04/2016

Arduino / Members

Technarte – International Conference on Art and Technology, 19/20 May 2016, Bilbao

Technarte is a two-day conference programme with international artists, scientists, researchers, technologists and academics gathering to show the most innovative and amazing projects linking their respective fields. 19/20 May 2016, Bilbao

11/04/2016

Events / Members

Bits And Pieces – An organic wave of Hoberman Spheres

Currently on show at Berlin’s NOME Gallery is the latest work by Nils Völker titled Bits And Pieces. The installation consists out of 108 mass-produced toy spheres hanging in the middle of the exhibition space, individually addressable and controlled, to create organic waves that appear to move throughout the space.

06/04/2016

Arduino / Environment / Members / News

Flippaper – Player-sketched pinball

A collaboration by artists Jérémie Cortial Roman Miletitch, Flippaper is an interactive pinball console in which players can draw their own playfield.

05/04/2016

Cinder / Members

Resonate 2016 / 12–16 April / Belgrade

Resonate is back to celebrate its fifth anniversary in Belgrade from 12th to 16th of April, 2016, providing an insight into the current developments in the fields of digital culture, visual arts and music.

01/04/2016

Events / Members / Resonate

When the Machine Made Art – Grant Taylor traces the origins of computational creativity

CAN interviews Grant D. Taylor, author of the 2014 book “When the Computer Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art,” on the past, present and future of digital art.

31/03/2016

Members / Theory

Conversations On Chaos by Fito Segrera

Created by Fito Segrera, Conversations On Chaos is a project that explores the idea of order as an emergence from chaos. It uses chaos theory and elements from dynamic system studies and experimentation in order to create a system where two machines hold a chaotic conversation about chaos.

31/03/2016

Linux / Members

Hybrid Forms: New Growth / Exploration of morphogenesis by Andy Lomas

Following from the Morphogenetic Creations we covered on CAN some months ago , Hybrid Forms: New Growth is the latest in the series of “Cellular Forms: an Artistic Exploration of Morphogenesis” research work by Andy Lomas.

29/03/2016

c++ / Members

Molecular clouds in space – Ryoichi Kurokawa’s ‘unfold’ at FACT

New solo exhibition by Ryoichi Kurokawa featuring the stunning ‘constrained surface’ and the ‘unfold’, new project exploring data taken from giant molecular clouds in space through beautifully visual and sonic environments that showcase the birth of stars.

25/03/2016

Cinder / Members

Light, Space, Rhythm – A conversation with Florence To

CAN interviews Florence To, a Rotterdam-based art director and installation artist focused on audiovisual performance and the creation of immersive environments.

24/03/2016

Environment / Members

Line Wobbler – A one-dimensional dungeon crawler

Designed by Robin Baumgarten, Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional arcade game that emerges from the combination of a unique ‘wobble’ controller and an LED strip.

23/03/2016

Arduino / Members

Everything & More & More – Marina Zurkow and Rachel Rose

A consideration of systems and scale in Marina Zurkow’s “MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans)” and Rachel Rose’s “Everything & More,” exhibitions recently mounted at (respectively) bitforms and the Whitney Museum for American Art in NYC.

14/03/2016

Events / Members

STARTS PRIZE – Deadline March 13, 2016

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11/03/2016

Members / News

Block’hood – Vertical city simulator with focus on ecology, decay and coexistence

Created by a small team of architects turned game designers, Block’hood is a vertical city simulator with emphasis on ecology and decay. As a player, you take control of a neighborhood and develop your community within limited space. The challenge is provided by the requirements of the blocks you create, forcing you to satisfy the need of resources.

09/03/2016

Members / Unity

Creative-coding on iOS with C4 – Tutorial

This tutorial will introduce you to creative-coding on iOS with C4, a powerful framework for creating expressive artworks and user experiences. Written entirely in Swift, C4 takes a modern approach to working with animation, gestures and media.

08/03/2016

iOS / Members / Tutorials

Current Times – Workification of Computer Games

Created by Peter Buczkowski, Current Times explores the concept of division of labour, one of the most common practice of the industrial world, applied to computer games.

07/03/2016

Games / Members

Pent – A short film created using Grand Theft Auto V

Created and directed by Roland Spencer, Pent is a short film entirely created using Grand Theft Auto V. Since the video games have taken leaps towards realism, Roland felt it was something worth putting time and effort into. The finished piece is a story about anger, control and pay off, told using a video game.

04/03/2016

Games / Members

Manfred Mohr: Artificiata II at Carroll Fletcher / 12 Feb – 2 Apr

Video featuring Manfred Mohr discussing ideas behind his Artificiata II work currently on display at Carroll Fletcher in London.

04/03/2016

Members / News

Unique Flow – Synaesthetic motion / FIELD for the Toyota C-HR

Create by FIELD, Unique Flow is a project celebrating the release of new car by Toyota C-HR. It’s imagined as a visual abstraction of the car, highlighting its design and intention, a combination of style, movement and flow. CAN goes behind the scenes!

01/03/2016

Members / Three Js

Bela: an Embedded Platform for Low-Latency Interactive Audio (Kickstarter)

Bela is an embedded computing platform developed for high quality, ultra-low latency interactive audio.

01/03/2016

Members / News

Kadenze: The Future of Creative Education

Kadenze brings together the world’s leading educators, artists, and engineers to create an online community where we can learn art and creative technology. From generative graphics and creative coding to physical modeling synthesis for games and interactive systems, the Kadenze catalog is full of courses designed specifically for artists and it’s growing larger every day.

01/03/2016

Education / Members

Kinematic Petals Dress debuts at MFA | Nervous System

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29/02/2016

Cinder / Members / News

SensorTape – 3D-aware dense sensor network on a roll of tape

Developed by the team at MIT Media Lab’s Responsive Environments group, SensorTape is a sensor network in a form factor of a tape that allows users to create large sensor networks.

24/02/2016

Arduino / Members / Processing

Politics of Power – Products with embedded ideologies

Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.

17/02/2016

Members / Objects