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CAN is an active visitor, participator, curator, host and organiser of many events around the world, bringing artists/creators with their audience and facilitating forward looking debate about the position of technology in art and culture.





















HOLO curates a series of critical conversations and hands-on exercises as part of the 20th Edition of MUTEK Monreal, Aug 20-25.
05/08/2019Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
25/07/2019Learn 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.
30/04/2019CAN 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 symposium, and takes place March 11th–13th at UAL’s Camberwell College of Art in London.
25/02/2019A-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.
20/06/2018It 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.
04/05/2018The 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!
21/04/2018Review 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.
04/04/2018On 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 consider pressing aesthetic and sociopolitical questions.
08/03/2018This 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.
02/02/2018The 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.
01/08/2017A-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 lectures.
28/06/2017Join 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”.
22/05/2017Apply for a grant to collaborate on an R&D ICT-Project and access emerging technologies to produce an original artwork.
26/04/2017Unhanded 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 thoughts on the proceedings.
22/03/2017Pittsburgh’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 working in and at the fringes of immersive media.
21/09/2016Registration 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 discussion!
06/07/2016CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
22/06/2016Building 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.
18/05/2016The 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.
17/05/2016Huge 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 Center in Gwangju, South Korea. More than a hundred artists, designers, curators, and educators answered our invitation to add their work and voice to the inaugural edition of ACT Festival, an opening celebration for the center’s monumental facilities.
05/02/2016As 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 out – here are the highlights.
08/11/2015Taking 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.
24/09/2015CAN 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”.
17/09/2015CAN 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.
14/09/2015As 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!
09/07/2015CAN 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.
11/06/2015MUTEK Montreal returns with another dynamic edition. As was the case last year, we’ll be doing live interviews with some of the featured audiovisual artists within the festival’s daytime program—join us! A showcase of ‘the state of the art’ in chic house, techno, and dynamic audiovisual performance, the 16th edition of Montréal’s MUTEK festival takes…
13/05/2015With The Subterranean theme FIBER Festival has a devised a metaphor to explore the politico-aesthetics of our digital world. In an extensive programme covering two days, the visitor can immersive him or herself in the shadowy world of new aesthetics and interactive forms, created by artists whose toolboxes extend to online communities, dark patterns, data and algorithms.
11/05/2015HOLO curates a series of critical conversations and hands-on exercises as part of the 20th Edition of MUTEK Monreal, Aug 20-25.
Tags: audiovisual / Bill Posters / Dietrich Squinkifer / education / electronic music / Ellie Irons / Heather Davis / holo / Ingrid Burrington / Joanie Lemercier / Julia Kaganskiy / Julian Oliver / monolake / montreal / MUTEK / MUTEK_IMG / Paolo Cirio / Ryan Stec / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Sava Saheli Singh / Tim Maughan / workshops
Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
Tags: aadrl / Andreas Gysin / art / can / can event / cci / creative computing institute / cross-disciplinary / design / document / Eva Rucki / Events / Gysin & Vanetti / London / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / Minimaforms / Revital Cohen / student / Theodore Spyropoulos / Troika / UAL
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
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 symposium, and takes place March 11th–13th at UAL’s Camberwell College of Art in London.
Tags: aadrl / Andreas Gysin / art / can / can event / cci / creative computing institute / cross-disciplinary / design / document / Eva Rucki / Events / Gysin & Vanetti / London / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / Minimaforms / Revital Cohen / student / Theodore Spyropoulos / Troika / UAL / workshop
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.
Tags: A-B-Z / can event / Chris Lee / education / graphic design / InterAccess / Jon Gacnik / Jürg Lehni / Mindy Seu / Nasrin Himada / Nell Tenhaaf / school / St Marie φ Walker / toronto / typography
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.
Tags: Alan Warburton / Andre Baynes / Chiedza Pasipanodya / conferernce / Daily tous les jours / Eastern Bloc / Elevenplay / Erandy Vergara / event / Liam Young / Madeline Gannon / montreal / MUTEK / MUTEK_IMG / Nathalie Bachand / phi centre / Regine Debatty / rhizomatiks / Ryan Stec / RYBN.org / sam lavigne / symposium / Tega Brain / Tim Maughan / vr
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
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.
Tags: ACT / ACT Festival / Asia Culture Center / Daito Manabe / data / database / Digital / Evala / Events / exhibition / featured / Gwangju / Harshit Agrawal / information / Jeon Joonho / Jonas Jongejan / Kazunao Abe / knowledge / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / learning / making / Marko Peljhan / Matthew Biederman / Moon Kyungwon / Pierce Warnecke / privacy / review / Ryoji Suzuki / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sang-won Leigh / Satoshi Furuya / security / Sho Miyake / south korea / technology / Tomas Saraceno / visualization
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 consider pressing aesthetic and sociopolitical questions.
Tags: Alan Warburton / Andre Baynes / can event / Chiedza Pasipanodya / conference / Daily tous les jours / Daito Manabe / Daniel Avery / Elevenplay / Erandy Vergara / Erin Gee / event / Isabelle Van Grimde / Liam Young / Madeline Gannon / MAPP_MTL / Marika Dermineur / montreal / Mouna Andraos / MUTEK / MUTEK_IMG / Nathalie Bachand / Patrick Saint-Denis / phi centre / Regine Debatty / rhizomatiks / Ryan Stec / sam lavigne / Tega Brain / Tim Maughan / Tori Foster
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
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.
Tags: artificiel / audiovisual / bfi / deathprod / Eastern Bloc / electronic music / event / festival / Glenn Vervliet / Herman Kolgen / interview / Jimmy Lakatos / Maotik / Michela Pelusio / monolake / montreal / Murcof / MUTEK / Myriam Bleau / sculpture / Sensate FOcus
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 lectures.
Tags: A-B-Z / Ali S. Qadeer / call for applications / Chris Lee / conference / design / event / graphic design / Lois Andison / masterclass / Michele Champagne / Mindy Seu / openFrameworks / symposium / toronto / typography / workshop / Xavier Snelgrove / Zach Lieberman
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”.
Tags: Alex Augier / Alexander Scholz / Arts@CERN / ATÖLYE / Beatrice Pembroke / Bert Holvast / British Council / Carmen Salas / Charlie Fraser / Chris Baraniuk / DISNOVATION.ORG / Engin Ayaz / Ghislaine Boddington / HeK / holo / holomagazine / LABoral / LaTurbo Avedon / Lea Fabrikant / Leigh Alexander / Lucía García Rodríguez / Maotik / Mapping Festival / Maria Roszkowska / Mark IJzerman / Martin Howse / Martin Messier / Mónica Bello / Nicolas Maigret / Nicolas Nova / Nora O’Murchú / Olof van Winden / Paul Jebanasam / Rainer Kohlberger / Regine Debatty / Sabine Himmelsbach / Semiconductor / Tarik Barri / TodaysArt / touchdesigner / Vassilis Haralambidis / vj / VJing / We Make Money Not Art / Werner Herzog
Apply for a grant to collaborate on an R&D ICT-Project and access emerging technologies to produce an original artwork.
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 thoughts on the proceedings.
Tags: 3d printing / artengine / autodesk / conference / craft / critical making / Digital Fabrication / event / featured / Garnet Hertz / Greg Sims / James Hayes / Joanna Berzowska / make / Maker Faire / making / Ottawa / Rachel Gotlieb / Sandra Alfoldy / Sarah Brin / Steven Loft / symposium / Tom Bessai / Valerie Lamontagne / wearable
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 working in and at the fringes of immersive media.
Tags: Ali Momeni / AR / CMU / festival / Golan Levin / Milica Zec / Omer Shapira / Pittsburgh / Sarah Rothberg / VIA Festival / vr / Yasmin Elayat
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 discussion!
Tags: A-B-Z / Alana Johns / Ali Shamas Qadeer / event / font / InterAccess / Lauren Wickware / LUST / lustlab / normals / Patrick Pittman / Sean Yendrys / Steph Davidson / toronto / Tracy Ma / type / typography
CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
Tags: Dasha Rush / Dave Gaskarth / derivative / festival / Herman Kolgen / Lauren Goshinski / Lee Gamble / MFO / montreal / music / MUTEK / Nonotak / Paul Jebanasam / QUADr / Simon Wilkinson / Stanislav Glasov / Tarik Barri / Tim Hecker / Uwe Schmidt
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.
Tags: A-B-Z / InterAccess / Lauren Wickware / LUST / Michele Champagne / normals / Steph Davidson / toronto / Tracy Ma
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.
Tags: Ash Koosha / Karen Palmer / Lava Lab / Me and the Machine / MFO / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / MUTEK / Olivier Asselin / phi centre / Simon Wilkinson / vr
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 Center in Gwangju, South Korea. More than a hundred artists, designers, curators, and educators answered our invitation to add their work and voice to the inaugural edition of ACT Festival, an opening celebration for the center’s monumental facilities.
Tags: 2015 / ACT / actfestival / can / canevents / canlabs / conference / curated / exhibition / featured / forum / holo / making / performance / project / workshop
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 out – here are the highlights.
Tags: ACT / ACT Centre / ACT Festival / c++ / can events / canlabs / Diamond Version / Elevenplay / Golan Levin / Gwangju / Ilona Gaynor / karsten schmidt / Laleh Mehran / Moniker / rhizomatiks / Ryoji Ikeda / south korea / TACIT Group / Yuri Suzuki
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.
Tags: Darsha Hewitt / exhibition / festival / immersive / Julian Oliver / Marshmallow Laser Feast / Moment Factory / montreal / MUTEK / NFB / phi centre / projection mapping / vr
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
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.
Tags: ACT / ACT Centre / ACT Festival / anthony dunne / art + com / canevents / Daito Manabe / Dunne & Raby / featured / Ivan Poupyrev / Joachim Sauter / Kimchi and Chips / Mapping Festival / Regine Debatty / rhizomatiks / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Ryoji Ikeda / south korea / united visual artists / Yuri Suzuki / Zach Lieberman
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!
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.
Tags: audiovisual / dance / event / festival / Hiroaki Umeda / laser / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / MUTEK / phi centre / report / Robin Fox / Uwe Schmidt
MUTEK Montreal returns with another dynamic edition. As was the case last year, we’ll be doing live interviews with some of the featured audiovisual artists within the festival’s daytime program—join us! A showcase of ‘the state of the art’ in chic house, techno, and dynamic audiovisual performance, the 16th edition of Montréal’s MUTEK festival takes…
Tags: audiovisual / festival / Hiroaki Umeda / interview / montreal / music / MUTEK / Robin Fox / Sound
With The Subterranean theme FIBER Festival has a devised a metaphor to explore the politico-aesthetics of our digital world. In an extensive programme covering two days, the visitor can immersive him or herself in the shadowy world of new aesthetics and interactive forms, created by artists whose toolboxes extend to online communities, dark patterns, data and algorithms.