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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 repetitive actions to machines, this exhibition takes a critical look at a society that has become addicted to an object that seems to have become indispensable : the “smart” phone.
07/09/2021Created 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 robotic devices.
21/05/2021Four 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.
29/10/2020In 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.
14/02/2020SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
14/01/2020CAN 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.
03/10/2019At 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!
21/04/2018At 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 topics ranging from VR, popular media to digital nature.
03/04/2017Interactive 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.
31/01/2017In 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.
05/01/2017Following 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.
12/05/2016Kadenze 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.
03/05/2016The 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.
13/04/2016Kadenze 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.
01/03/2016Founded 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 about the recent and future programmes.
18/12/2015Calling 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 tools, culture, and technology studies in a hands-on, collaborative environment.
09/11/2015Berlin-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.
21/10/2015Earlier 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 together to form a sentences that you can discover in the video below.
14/07/2015School for poetic computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group in New York City. One of it’s founders, and teachers, Taeyoon Choi speaks to two artists who taught at SFPC, about their experience of teaching and artistic research.
08/06/2015The Visual Communication Institute in Basel offers internationally accredited curricula on the Bachelor, Master and PhD level reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design in particular and Swiss Graphic Design in general. The City of Basel, located in the trinational Rhine river valley, is a unique cultural environment with easy access to France and Germany.
27/02/2015School for poetic computation (SFPC) recently opened a new call for participants for the Fall 2014 term. In this post, Taeyoon Choi, one of the co-founders and teachers at the SFPC, looks back.
28/07/2014Fantastic 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 repetitive actions to machines, this exhibition takes a critical look at a society that has become addicted to an object that seems to have become indispensable : the “smart” phone.
Tags: Antoine Barras / Antony Demierre / archive / Aurélien Pellegrini / Basil Dénéréaz / Bastien Claessens / Bastien Classens / Bastien Mouthon / chatbot / cloud / Diane Thouvenin / Dorian Jovanovic / ecal / Evan Kelly / fitness / Guillaume Giraud / health / Ignacio Pérez / imessage / Interface / Ivan Chestopaloff / Jorge Reis / Kylan Luginbühl / Léonard Guyot / Lisa Kishtoo / Malik Sobgoui / Maya Bellier / Michael Pica / Nora Fatehi / opencv / Pablo Bellon / Paul Fritz / Paul Lëon / Rayane Jemaa / robotics / screen / Sébastien Galera Larios / sensor / servo / Souhaïb Ghanmi / Valentine Leimgruber / Valerio Meschi / Yaël Sidler
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 robotic devices.
Tags: agency / futures / human-machine / interaction / materiality / robotics / students / Zurich University of the Arts
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.
Tags: arduino / ecal / HTC Vive / Interface / Kylan Luginbühl / Léonard Guyot / Maya Bellier / unity / unreal / virtual reality / vr / Yael Sidler
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.
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
SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
Tags: Alexander Miller / Allison Chan / arduino / capacitive sensor / Celine Wong Katzman / Che-Wei Wang / ChucK / Danny Garfield / DTrace / education / Esther Bouquet / featured / Fernando Ramallo / FIlip Wolak / Francisco Rojo / Galen Macdonald / Gia Castello / glsl / Hall Effect sensors / Iain Nash / incandescent lightbulbs / Katherine Rae Diemert / Lauren Gardner / lcd / LED strip / Lia Coleman / Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy / Markov Chain / Mathilde Mouw-Rao / matrix display / Max Bittker / Maxwell Neely-Cohen / Melanie Hoff / Natalie Rothfels / Olivia Ross / openFrameworks / Photogrammetry / photoresistor / python / Raspberry Pi / receipt printer / Rhinoceros / Sebastian Morales / servo / SFPC / Shelby Wilson / Stefan Pelikan / Taeyoon Choi / Taylor Levy / thermochromic pigment / Tiriree Kananuruk / Todd Anderson / Tsige Tafesse / unity / Yuzhu Chai / Zach Lieberman / Zai Aliyu
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
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
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 topics ranging from VR, popular media to digital nature.
Tags: arduino / critical design / culture / Dennis P Paul / Digital Media Bremen / education / featured / gif / learning / process / rgb / speculative
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.
Tags: anthony dunne / bartlett / choreography / critical making / DfPI / education / Felix Faire / fiona raby / interactive architecture lab / interview / Lin Tang / London / mit media lab / Nicholas Negroponte / pedgagoy / Ranulph Glanville / rca / robotics / Ruairi Glynn / speculative design / Stephen Gage
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.
Tags: Adnan Agha / Agustín Ramos Anzorena / Alex Wagner / Baku Hashimoto / Bryan Wilson / Caitlin Morris / cinema4d / computation / computer science / Dan Gorelick / Dannie Wei / Events / featured / Francis Tseng / Hiroshi Okamura / Ingrid Burrington / installation / instrument / Jason Toy / kaleidoscope / Katrina Allick / Lauren Gardner / machine learning / Medhir / media art / media technology / neural network / openFrameworks / osc / Patricio Gonzalez Vivo / Philip David / Physical Computing / printing / process / Processing / ps3eye / publishing / python / Ramsey Nasser / Raspberry Pi / report / Robby Kraft / Ruby Childs / school / sequencer / SFPC / showcase / Sound / Taeyoon Choi / teaching / tools / visualization / Zach Lieberman
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.
Tags: acc / act center / call of submissions / can events / Events / korea / residency / south korea
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.
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.
Tags: Anna Ploegh / Barry Threw / Chris Delbuck / education / exhibition / featured / festival / Gray Area / Gray Area Festival / interview / Matt Ganucheau / performance / San Francisco
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.
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 about the recent and future programmes.
Tags: Andrew Friend / art and technology / education / internet of things / interview / iot / making / school of machines / Sitraka Rakotoniaina / speculatiom rachel uwa
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 tools, culture, and technology studies in a hands-on, collaborative environment.
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.
Tags: analogue / Darsha Hewitt / education / electricity / electronics / Goethe Institute / Jonathan Sterne / music / MUTEK / Nelly-Eve Rajotte / Side Man / Sound / tutorial / video / Wurlitzer / youtube
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 together to form a sentences that you can discover in the video below.
School for poetic computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group in New York City. One of it’s founders, and teachers, Taeyoon Choi speaks to two artists who taught at SFPC, about their experience of teaching and artistic research.
Tags: Allison Parrish / education / learning / new york / open call / school / SFPC / Surya Mattu / Taeyoon Choi / teaching
The Visual Communication Institute in Basel offers internationally accredited curricula on the Bachelor, Master and PhD level reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design in particular and Swiss Graphic Design in general. The City of Basel, located in the trinational Rhine river valley, is a unique cultural environment with easy access to France and Germany.
Tags: basel / courses / education / interaction design / learning / post graduate / switzerland / visual communication
School for poetic computation (SFPC) recently opened a new call for participants for the Fall 2014 term. In this post, Taeyoon Choi, one of the co-founders and teachers at the SFPC, looks back.