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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.
14/02/2020CAN will join (and report from) the ECAL Research Day, an eclectic symposium where artists, designers, and scholars will discuss the entanglement of technology and research.
03/10/2019Learn how to prototype post-screen interfaces, examine network infrastructures, hack museums, and transplant scents with leading artists, designers, and researchers at this year’s Mapping Festival.
30/04/2019Sorry, 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…
19/07/2018The future is calling (again): in just a few short days, Barcelona’s IAM Weekend returns to the nexus of internet culture and cybernetic serendipity with an exciting mix of talks, workshops, and masterclasses. Join us as we attempt “The Subversion of Paradoxes” in search of the great beyond. The term ‘multidisciplinary’ gets thrown around a…
24/04/2018At the upcoming (14th!) edition of Geneva’s Mapping Festival (May 9 – 12), CAN is proud to co-host Mapping LAB – a one-day educational program of 13 workshops run by leading artists, designers, and researchers in our field. Join us!
21/04/2018This weekend, February 3rd to 4th, we will join 230 TouchDesigner users at Derivative’s second ever TouchDesigner Summit in Berlin for an 48-hour marathon of workshops, masterclasses, and presentations.
02/02/2018About a year ago HOLO 2 came rolling off the press and we’ve spent the last twelve months shipping it and presenting it all over the world. We compiled a pretty massive report that collates all the crucial facts, figures, and feedback we’ve received. Thanks to our readers, partners, and contributors alike for your support—HOLO is a tribute to the amazing communities it chronicles.
22/11/2017Hatched at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, “Ad Infinitum” is a “parasitical” machine that, quite literally, lives off of human-generated energy.
02/10/2017From 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.
23/11/2016Attention 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!
10/05/2016Sorry, 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…
02/02/2016226 pages, 42 contributors, 22 features, HOLO 2 is ready to go to press: the magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology is back with another issue. Take a tour and order your copy at today.
11/12/2015CAN and Swiss artist and designer Jürg Lehni will join an eclectic cast of international creators at this year’s OFFF MX (24 – 26 September) to “feed the future”.
17/09/2015Developed 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.
04/09/2015The 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.…
18/06/2015CentrePasquArt’s super-group show Short Cuts invites viewers to trace ideas, influences, and positions across five decades of work by merely taking a few steps.
01/06/2015The latest work of Brighton-based artist researcher duo Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt) pulls back the shiny veneer of cosmology by collaging thousands of raw telescope images into a sculptural projection.
25/03/2015Learn more about the making of HOLO 2. Featuring over 30 contributors from a dozen countries and a hefty 200 pages of premium print, HOLO returns and endeavours to be smarter, more substantive, and more special than our first issue.
11/02/2015From November to January 2014, Muriel Guépin Gallery in NY was the home to ‘Bright Matter’, an exhibition of enigmatic works by five international artists widely recognized for their spatial-aesthetic research, creative engineering, and stunning perceptual hacks. We check in with the event’s instigator, curator, and participating artist Joanie Lemercier for a report, the back story, and a 2015 teaser.
20/01/2015By publishing (and many other) standards, HOLO just took its first steps. Yet nine months after the magazine’s launch, we look back and can’t believe how far we’ve come. What happened? Here’s a stocktaking, a travelogue, and a teaser. The middle of December is a somewhat special time for us. Two years ago this past Monday, the…
19/12/2014Illusive rear-projections, flickering moirés, fluorescent puzzle boxes: opening this Friday, November 21st, at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City is ‘Bright Matter’, a dazzling group show that’ll bend, warp and (if only briefly) break the way we see.
18/11/2014Recent 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”.
09/07/2014With 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?”
05/06/2014Opening this Saturday (April 26) and presented by the Art Museum of Lugano in Switzerland, 36 ventilators, 4.7m³ packing chips is the new installation by Zimoun, swiss born and Bern based artists known for his architecturally-minded platforms of sound.
23/04/2014226 pages, 34 contributors from 8 different countries, 12 months of blood, sweat and tears – the first issue of HOLO magazine, CAN’s exciting print spin-off that is “more a book than a magazine,” is near.
18/12/2013In the wake of our latest Kickstarter campaign update – and the new ‘magazine’ space here on CAN – it is time for us to report back home.
01/05/2013Design studio tangent: fixes LEDs and a pump to bowl of sticky liquids, creating a brew of blinking ooze.
22/04/201330 pieces of molded plastic, 2 HD projectors – hovering in the dark of Berlin’s 401contemporary gallery is Robert Seidel’s latest projection sculpture. Suspended from the ceiling and drenched in waves of light the amorph, skeletal structure comes alive – intricate, fragile, otherworldly.
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17/08/2012In 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
CAN will join (and report from) the ECAL Research Day, an eclectic symposium where artists, designers, and scholars will discuss the entanglement of technology and research.
Tags: Ala Tannir / Bianca Berning / Christian Mio Loclair / Chrtistian Kaegi / design / ecal / ECAL Research Day / EPFL+ECAL Lab / Fabrice Aberhard / Hugues Vinet / IRCAM / Lausanne / Mario de Vega / Milan Triennale / Nathalie D. Kane / Nicolas Henchoz / Patrick Keller / research / technology / Thilo Alex Brunner / Waltz Binaire
Learn how to prototype post-screen interfaces, examine network infrastructures, hack museums, and transplant scents with leading artists, designers, and researchers at this year’s Mapping Festival.
Tags: bauhaus / Benjamin Gaulon / Carmen Salas / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Bisig / featured / Geneva / head / Jan Schacher / Joana Moll / Johanna Jaskowska / Klara Ravat / Leander Herzog / mapping / Mapping Festival / Marc Garrett / Maria Yablonina / Michael Ang / Mitchell Akiyama / MXZEHN / Nathalie Bachand / neeeu / Nora Al-Badri / normals / Regine Debatty / SmellLab / Tatiana Bazzichelli / Ted Davis / touchdesigner / TUNDRA / workshop / ZHdK
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Tags: audiovisual / Cedric Kiefer / creative coding / Funkhaus / generative art / HLSL / installation / Kling Klang Klong / landscape / nature / onformative / osc / Processing / shader / shaders / Sound / unity
The future is calling (again): in just a few short days, Barcelona’s IAM Weekend returns to the nexus of internet culture and cybernetic serendipity with an exciting mix of talks, workshops, and masterclasses. Join us as we attempt “The Subversion of Paradoxes” in search of the great beyond. The term ‘multidisciplinary’ gets thrown around a…
Tags: 3d / aesthetics / Afrofuturism / Afrotopia / Alan Warburton / Amani Al-Khatahtbeh / Andres Colmenares / barcelona / bruce sterling / CGI / Cool 3D World / Dave Fothergill / design future / Elijah / future / iam weekend / Ingrid Lafleur / Jane Murison / Kelani Nichole / KOSMICA Institute / LaTurbo Avedon / Lighthouse Brighton / Lucy Esperanza Rojas / Marie McPartlin / Meriem Bennani / metamedia / Nikita Diakur / Pinar Yoldas / Somerset House / Somerset House Studios / The Current Museum of Art / Transfer Gallery / UAL / Uncanny Valley
At the upcoming (14th!) edition of Geneva’s Mapping Festival (May 9 – 12), CAN is proud to co-host Mapping LAB – a one-day educational program of 13 workshops run by leading artists, designers, and researchers in our field. Join us!
Tags: Antoine Schmitt / Carmen Salas / Coralie Gourguechon / Dana Zelig / Daniela Silvestrin / Daphne Dragona / David Rudrauf / Derek Holzer / Dmitry Gelfand / Dries Depoorter / Evelina Domnitch / Felixs Machines / Gael Abegg Gauthey / Gene Kogan / Julian Oliver / Jürg Lehni / Legacy Russell / Lisa Charlotte Rost / Marco Donnarumma / Markus Heckmann / Moritz Simon Geist / N O R M A L S / Paul Prudence / Philip Vermeulen / Plaid / Rachel O’Dwyer / Raphaël de Courville / Rosario Hurtado / Stef Tervelde / Susannah Hertrich / Ted Davis / Tobias Revell / Transforma / Yuk Hui
This weekend, February 3rd to 4th, we will join 230 TouchDesigner users at Derivative’s second ever TouchDesigner Summit in Berlin for an 48-hour marathon of workshops, masterclasses, and presentations.
Tags: berlin / can event / derivative / Greg Hermanovic / holo / holo 1 / installation / Isabelle Rousset / led / Maotik / Markus Heckmann / touchdesigner / TouchDesigner Summit
About a year ago HOLO 2 came rolling off the press and we’ve spent the last twelve months shipping it and presenting it all over the world. We compiled a pretty massive report that collates all the crucial facts, figures, and feedback we’ve received. Thanks to our readers, partners, and contributors alike for your support—HOLO is a tribute to the amazing communities it chronicles.
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
Hatched at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, “Ad Infinitum” is a “parasitical” machine that, quite literally, lives off of human-generated energy.
Tags: Alexandra Ion / arduino / ars electronica / CNC / David Lindlbauer / dynamos / EMS / featured / Hasso-Plattner Institute / LiPo / machine / MOSFET / Natural History Museum Bern / openEMSstim / parasite / Patrick Baudisch / Pedro Lopes / Róbert Kovács / Science Gallery Dublin / VIDA
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
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!
Tags: Android / app / app art award / App Store / appartaward / ios / iPad / iPhone / zkm / zkm karlsruhe
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Tags: berlin / Christopher Bauder / CTM / CTM Festival / installation / laser / light / motor / performance / Robert Henke
226 pages, 42 contributors, 22 features, HOLO 2 is ready to go to press: the magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology is back with another issue. Take a tour and order your copy at today.
Tags: art / artists / canlabs / Casey Reas / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Shiffman / design / featured / features / holo / holo2 / Jürg Lehni / Katie Paterson / magazine / Paul Prudence / print / projects / publication / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Ryoichi Kurokawa / science / Scott Smith / tale of tales / technology / Timo Arnall / Vera Molnar
CAN and Swiss artist and designer Jürg Lehni will join an eclectic cast of international creators at this year’s OFFF MX (24 – 26 September) to “feed the future”.
Tags: abstract birds / abstractbirds / art / COCOLAB / DeFrame Collective / design / drawing machine / festival / fiber festival / field / fieldio / illustration / Ivan Abreu / Jürg Lehni / Mexico City / MoMA / offf / OFFF MX / paperjs / projection mapping / scriptographer / vvvv
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.
Tags: Coolux / Fabian Fuchs / infrared / Ingo Wörner / ir / kinect / light / Milan EXPO 2015 / Milla & Partner GmbH / motion capture / node.js / opencv / openFrameworks / OptiTrack / osc / Pandoras Box / projection / projection mapping / Socket.IO / tracking / webkit / websocket
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.…
Tags: announcement / Casey Reas / Cedric Flazinski / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Rourke / Daniel Shiffman / Fanqiao Wang / Geoff Manaugh / Georgina Voss / holo / holo2 / illustration / Jim Rossignol / Jürg Lehni / karsten schmidt / Katie Paterson / magazine / Michelle Kasprzak / Mitchell Whitelaw / normals / Paul Prudence / Peter Stemmler / process / prototype / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Scott Aaronson / Sid Meier / tale of tales / Timo Arnall / Vera Molnar / Ye Rin Mok
CentrePasquArt’s super-group show Short Cuts invites viewers to trace ideas, influences, and positions across five decades of work by merely taking a few steps.
Tags: Andreas Gysin / Angel Duarte / Antonin Fourneau / Atsuko Tanaka / Carlos Cruz-Diez / Casey Reas / CentrePasquArt / Cod.Act / Cybernetic Serendipity / Davide Boriani / Davide Fornari / Douglas Edric Stanley / Ensemble Vortex / Esther Hunziker / ETH Zurich / F.A.T / Fabio Franchino – ToDo / featured / framed / François Morellet / Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab / Gianni Colombo / Giorgio Olivero / Giovanni Anceschi / Golan Levin / Gordan Savicic / Gramazio & Kohler / Gruppo T / Gysin & Vanetti / Hervé Huitric / Jean Dupuy / Jesús Rafael Soto / Julien Prévieux / Julio Le Parc / Jürg Lehni / Karl Gerstner / Leander Herzog / lia / Manfred Mohr / Marie-Julie Bourgeois / Martin Fröhlich / Matthew Epler / Monique Nahas / NORM / Philipp Lammer / Piero Gilardi / Piotr Kowalski / Rafaël Rozendaal / Raffaello D’Andrea / Samuel Bianchini / Selena Savic / Serena Cangiano / Short Cuts / Sidi Vanetti / switzerland / Sylvie Tissot / Synaptic Lab / Takis / The ReCode Project / Thibault Brevet / Troika / Vera Molnar / william lai / Yacoov Agam / yugo nakamura / Yvonne Weber
The latest work of Brighton-based artist researcher duo Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt) pulls back the shiny veneer of cosmology by collaging thousands of raw telescope images into a sculptural projection.
Tags: after effects / brighton / cosmos / Da Vinci / installation / light / Montage / nasa / projection / Semiconductor / Singapore / universe
Learn more about the making of HOLO 2. Featuring over 30 contributors from a dozen countries and a hefty 200 pages of premium print, HOLO returns and endeavours to be smarter, more substantive, and more special than our first issue.
Tags: announcement / Casey Reas / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Rourke / Daniel Shiffman / Fanqiao Wang / featured / Geoff Manaugh / Georgina Voss / holo / holo2 / Jürg Lehni / karsten schmidt / Katie Paterson / magazine / Michelle Kasprzak / Mitchell Whitelaw / Paul Prudence / print / process / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Scott Aaronson / tale of tales / Timo Arnall / Vera Molnar
From November to January 2014, Muriel Guépin Gallery in NY was the home to ‘Bright Matter’, an exhibition of enigmatic works by five international artists widely recognized for their spatial-aesthetic research, creative engineering, and stunning perceptual hacks. We check in with the event’s instigator, curator, and participating artist Joanie Lemercier for a report, the back story, and a 2015 teaser.
Tags: 1024 Architecture / Bright Matter / comet / featured / Francois Wunschel / installation / Joanie Lemercier / Juliette Bibasse / labau / lenticular / light / memory alloy / mirror / Muriel Guépin Gallery / Nonotak / optics / Philae / projection mapping / Rosetta
By publishing (and many other) standards, HOLO just took its first steps. Yet nine months after the magazine’s launch, we look back and can’t believe how far we’ve come. What happened? Here’s a stocktaking, a travelogue, and a teaser. The middle of December is a somewhat special time for us. Two years ago this past Monday, the…
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Illusive rear-projections, flickering moirés, fluorescent puzzle boxes: opening this Friday, November 21st, at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City is ‘Bright Matter’, a dazzling group show that’ll bend, warp and (if only briefly) break the way we see.
Tags: 1024 Architecture / Bright Matter / creative engineering / event / Events / exhibition / fluorescent / gallery / installation / Joanie Lemercier / Juliette Bibasse / kinetic / labau / light / memory alloy / Muriel Guépin Gallery / new york / Nonotak / Numen For Use / object / projection mapping / research
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”.
Tags: camera / David Hedberg / distortion / face tracking / faceosc / Kyle McDonald / MaxMSP / rca / television / tv / video
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?”
Opening this Saturday (April 26) and presented by the Art Museum of Lugano in Switzerland, 36 ventilators, 4.7m³ packing chips is the new installation by Zimoun, swiss born and Bern based artists known for his architecturally-minded platforms of sound.
Tags: Art Museum of Lugano / dynamics / Events / fluid / installation / plastic / ventilator / Zimoun
226 pages, 34 contributors from 8 different countries, 12 months of blood, sweat and tears – the first issue of HOLO magazine, CAN’s exciting print spin-off that is “more a book than a magazine,” is near.
In the wake of our latest Kickstarter campaign update – and the new ‘magazine’ space here on CAN – it is time for us to report back home.
Design studio tangent: fixes LEDs and a pump to bowl of sticky liquids, creating a brew of blinking ooze.
30 pieces of molded plastic, 2 HD projectors – hovering in the dark of Berlin’s 401contemporary gallery is Robert Seidel’s latest projection sculpture. Suspended from the ceiling and drenched in waves of light the amorph, skeletal structure comes alive – intricate, fragile, otherworldly.
Tags: 3dsmax / aftereffects / installation / light / mapping / projection / Robert Seidel / Sound
Sorry, 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…