Educational projects, initiatives and collaborations.
Speculative Utopias / Dystopias (x3) – Visual Communication + Change
Visual Comm. + Change students built websites exploring utopias/dystopias. Narratives critique capitalism's failure, ecological decay (microplastics, melting glaciers), the loss of human senses, and the universal need for legacy / remembrance.
Improvisational Machines: Live Coding Industrial Robots
Organised and led by Madeline Gannon, Improvisational Machines is a workshop that brings live coding, dynamic interfaces, and flexible workflows into industrial robotics.
A week of creative coding, aperitivos and interaction design — oio school 2025
The oio school is a summer program designed for creatives to collaborate, learn and practice creative technology, with a holiday twist.
Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
Summer 2024 – Design Art Technology at ArtEZ
Five students from the Design Art Technology (DAT) department at ArtEZ share their final semester research projects. DAT is a four year BA that helps students develop their own voice in a complex and technological world and find their place in (or...
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2025
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS is a unique international summer school, held in Nevers, in Burgundy, aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers, activists and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research around the soci...
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2024
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS is a unique international summer school, held in Nevers, in Burgundy, aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers, activists and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research around the soci...
Interviewing YCAM: Past, Present and Future of Dance-Tech
The path to today’s dance-tech, review the projects by YCAM, and speculate the next steps of dance-tech through a conversation with Richi Owaki, an artist and researcher at YCAM.
Fantastic Smartphones – ECAL MID
Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our r...
Remote Materialities – Future scenographies of our coexistence with robotic devices
Created by the students at the Zurich University of the Arts, 'Remote Materialities' module and to be presented at the upcoming Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, 'Remote Materialities' explores the future scenographies of our coexistence with robo...
VR Projects @ ECAL MID 2020 – Object, Body, Movement and Environment
Four projects by students at ECAL (Media Interaction Design) explore the possibilities of VR. From alternative interfaces and public space to architectural interface and what its like to experience the environment of yellow ants.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors – Reflections on the ECAL Research Day 2019
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.
SFPC Fall 2019 Student Showcase
SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
Untangling technology and research at the ECAL Research Day on November 8th
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.
SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase
SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
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!
GIF Weaponry, Kid VR, RGB Fossils and Candy Clouds at the Digital Media Bremen
At the Digital Media study program in University of/the Arts Bremen, computer science meets design, while engineering and natural sciences interconnect with the arts. We present you four recent "semester" projects exploring top...
Performing Pedagogy – A Conversation with Ruairi Glynn
Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
School for Poetic Computation – Fall 2016 Final Showcase
In the final week of the last year's fall 10-week program at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), students presented their work in progress and its underly ideas in a public showcase. Here is a selection of projects that were presented.
Analogue Systems – Kinaesthetic tools for digital processes
Performed at the Camberwell College of Arts with 6 graduating graphic design students, Analogue Systems is a project that draws inspiration from the overworked arguements of superiority between analogue and digital process.
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.
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.
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.
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 i...
School of Machines / Making & Make-Believe
Founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2014, School of MA provides unique, hands-on learning experiences at the intersection of art and technology in Europe. School's founder Rachel Uwa speaks to the instructors Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina abou...
Emergent Digital Practices (EDP) at the University of Denver
Calling all tinkerers, digital explorers, techno¬-cultural critics, and visionaries of new worlds — University of Denver has a place for you to grow, experiment, and thrive. Emergent Digital Practices (EDP) brings together art, design, digital too...
Slinging Beats with Darsha Hewitt – A Side Man 5000 Interview
Berlin-based Canadian artist Darsha Hewitt engages in an extended conversation with CAN about her new online video tutorial series dedicated to the Wurlitzer Side Man—the world’s oldest drum machine.
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 t...
