Projects, collaborations, and initiatives by CreativeApplications.Net
For more than 16 years CAN has partnered and collaborated with organisations and initiatiated events and projects around the globe bringing together artists/creators with their audience, and facilitating a forward looking debate about the role of technology in art and culture. Here are some of the initiatives and projects by CAN.
Document 1. – Symposium Report
Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series 'Document #.' examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
Exercises in visual audio and deviant electronics: CAN to host 12 workshops at Mapping Festival 2019
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.
Document 1. – CAN’s new event series examines cross-disciplinary practice
CAN has joined forces with UAL Creative Computing Institute to present the first in a series of events that examine new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice. Entitled "Document 1.", it’s comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposi...
A-B-Z-TXT 2018 – Call for Participants
A-B-Z-TXT is back—and our favourite summer typography school is looking for international applicants. Apply to join Jürg Lehni, Mindy Seu, Jon Gacnik and others in Toronto Aug 23-26 for four days of masterclasses, workshops, and lectures.
Inventing the Future at MUTEK_IMG
It was just three weeks ago we were in Montréal for the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, MUTEK’s forum on digital creation. Invited to contribute to its symposium, we curated five panels. In this post-festival report, we share some highlights.
Deep Learning: CAN to co-host Mapping LAB at Mapping Festival 2018
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!
Otherly Space/Knowledge – Questions of knowledge in the age of data
Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
Explore the Outer Limits of Digital Aesthetics & Culture at MUTEK_IMG 2018
On April 11–13th MUTEK Montréal presents the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, their offshoot festival focused on digital creation. CAN/HOLO was invited to curate five panels within this year’s program, that bring together leading artists and thinkers to ...
Plug, play and learn at the TouchDesigner Summit 2018 in Berlin
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.
HOLO 2 – Aftermath
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 receiv...
MUTEK 2017 – Connecting Montreal to four cultural metropoles
The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 18th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be hosting ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.
A-B-Z-TXT 2017 – Call for Participants
A-B-Z-TXT is back as the ‘school for 21st century typography’—and it is looking for international applicants. Apply to join Zach Lieberman, Mindy Seu, Ali S. Qadeer, and others in Toronto Aug 17-20 for four days of masterclasses, workshops, and le...
Expo, Lab, Live – Digital Shifts at Mapping 2017, May 11 to 28
Join us at the 13th edition of Mapping festival (May 11 to 28) in Geneva, Switzerland, for an eclectic exhibition, workshop, and performance program and – a Mapping first – the two-day forum “Paradigm Shift”.
Apply for the VERTIGO STARTS Artistic Residencies Program
Apply for a grant to collaborate on an R&D ICT-Project and access emerging technologies to produce an original artwork.
Unhanded – A symposium about ‘making’ under the influence of digitalism
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...
HOLO 2 – The Future is (Out) Now
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.
Art && Code Returns with WEIRD REALITY
Pittsburgh’s Art && Code returns with a much-needed consideration of “new and independent visions for VR, MR, and AR.” Taking place from Oct 6-9th, and deliriously titled WEIRD REALITY, the four-day symposium gathers many of the best and brightest...
A-B-Z-TXT – Call for Participants
Registration for A-B-Z-TXT, the ‘school for 21st century typography’ we are collaborating to present in Toronto this August is now open. Join us for four days of masterclasses (with LUSTlab and N O R M A L S), workshops, and incisive lectures and ...
Bass Bins, VR Headsets, and Beyond – MUTEK 2016
CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
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 cent...
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.
Facets of ‘New Making’ – Tektonics at ACT Festival
Huge stroboscopic datastreams, hypnotic human-machine choreographies, a cacophony of Korean, Japanese, English, German, and French – ten weeks ago, from November 25th to 28th 2015, an unlikely cross-cultural exchange took over the all new ACT Cent...
HOLO 2 – The Grand Tour
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.
Two weeks till Gwangju: ACT Festival / November 25-28, South Korea
As the ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea, and an all-star cast of more than sixty international artists, designers and cultural producers gear up for the inaugural edition of ACT Festival, the details of our four day program have begun to roll ou...
MUTEK_IMG – Take a Deep Dive into VR and Immersive Media
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.
OFFF MX 2015 – Form and Future
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”.
ACT Festival 2015 – Four Days of Tremors, Shifts, Tektonics
CAN is thrilled to announce the first edition of #ACTFestival – a four-day summit that combines a world class exhibition, a symposium, a performance and workshop program, and takes place November 25th to 28th / Gwangju, South Korea.