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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.














The first post of a series on the state-of-the-art of live media performance curated by Federica Patti, focus on live stream. With three live shows to see and follow here.
23/09/2021Fantastic 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.
07/09/2021In perceiving established cultural and historical rituals through the lens of contemporary technology, Choy Ka Fai opens up a liminal space in which dance transcends colonial resistance, power and fantasy.
09/08/2021In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
06/05/2021Reckoning with quantum physics, Japanese avant-garde art scene “maestro” Hiroaki Umeda hypostatizes that these batches of abstract information are merely human belief system: “When one has confidence in an object’s factuality they name it as real, and when this confidence is slightly undermined they rename it as virtual” he stated.
26/03/2021Spanning physical and virtual space, Peter Burr’s exhibition, Responsive Eye, examines contemporary life in the grid. Taking cues from minimalism and op art, the work pushes the limits of a viewer’s perception and awareness, thrusting them into that gap between what is seen and what is felt. In this interview by Daniel Glendening, Burr digs into history, things that are not there, and what it means to be fleshy bodies gathering in digital space.
13/03/2021In 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.
14/02/2020In October CAN headed to Pittsburgh to toast the 30th Anniversary of The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. The event was accompanied by “Intersections,” a dynamic group exhibition showcasing many of the anti-disiciplinary works produced within the labs. Here, we review the show and share details about various included works.
08/11/2019CAN 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.
03/10/2019Ottawa-based Artengine is looking for Canadian and U.S. artists, designers, and cultural producers to take part in its Digital Economies Lab (DEL), a “year-long exploration of the wonders and anguish of making art and culture in the 21st century.”
05/09/2019In Elektra’s 20th year common themes from throughout the history of the festival of machinic bodies and digital transcendence are explored in depth and pushed to their extremes.
04/07/2019From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
07/05/2019A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
03/08/2018From 24 May to 25 November 2018, in the framework the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s “Hors-les-murs” program, American artist Ian Cheng’s “Emissary Forks At Perfection” (2015-2016) is on display at the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia.
05/06/2018Earlier this year SFPC in NYC was the host to alt-AI, a conference organised by Lauren Gardner and Gene Kogan to highlight and question artificial intelligence through the lens of artistic practice.
19/09/2016In a little over a week, the 6th edition of TADAEX festival (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) takes place at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran, Iran. It’s a strong manifestation of the digital scene in Tehran and the people who make it possible, it features Iranian digital artists as well as far reaching international network of collaborators thanks to an ongoing residency program with NODE Forum for Digital Arts.
14/09/2016In December 2015, SFPC were invited to participate at Day for Night festival in Houston, TX. SFPC co-founder Zach Lieberman, students from the fall 2015 session, and the larger SFPC community worked together to create ‘SFPC re-coded’, a project that presented over 50 animations from more than 30 different contributors.
28/06/2016Sónar+D 2016, the 4th International Congress for Digital Culture and Creative Technologies will be held in Barcelona on 16, 17 and 18 June and takes place within Sónar by Day.
20/05/2016The 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.
13/04/2016Technarte is a two-day conference programme with international artists, scientists, researchers, technologists and academics gathering to show the most innovative and amazing projects linking their respective fields. 19/20 May 2016, Bilbao
11/04/2016Resonate is back to celebrate its fifth anniversary in Belgrade from 12th to 16th of April, 2016, providing an insight into the current developments in the fields of digital culture, visual arts and music.
01/04/2016A consideration of systems and scale in Marina Zurkow’s “MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans)” and Rachel Rose’s “Everything & More,” exhibitions recently mounted at (respectively) bitforms and the Whitney Museum for American Art in NYC.
14/03/2016“There Should be Gardens” is the title of the 14th edition of InterAccess’s Emerging Artists Exhibition. Drawing on her research in feminist/queer curatorial and media arts practices, the exhibition is curated by Toronto’s Amber Christensen and showcases five Canadian early career artists whose practices address “the interconnectedness of technologies, ecologies, botanies, gender and the cosmos.” In aggregate the show’s selected works invoke elemental qualities, amplify and abstract natural materialities, and offer different modes of seeing and engaging the world. With the show winding down this week, CAN engaged Christensen in a Q&A to unpack the show’s framing and provocative works.
22/09/2015CentrePasquArt’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 sixteenth edition of Montréal’s ELEKTRA festival took place from May 13th-17th and delivered a range of audiovisual performances and installations addressing the notion of ‘post-audio’ or perception beyond sound—CAN was on hand to have our retinas singed and eardrums buzzed by the ‘POST-AUDIO’-themed programming.
26/05/2015Sónar+D is the international conference for creativity and technology, designed to promote talent and business opportunities in the digital culture environment.
26/03/2015Toronto-based curator Marla Wasser is the mind behind “RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine”, a media art exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that contains work by media art heroes like Angela Bulloch, Jim Campbell, Manfred Mohr, Alan Rath, and Daniel Rozin. Wasser recently engaged in an extensive interview with CAN, in which she shares some behind-the-scenes details about her show.
26/02/2015From 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.
20/01/2015Convergence Summit, a four day conference “on art + technology” that took place at the Banff Centre Nov 27-29th. Located in the idyllic mountain-surrounded town of Banff, Alberta, the massive arts incubator played a important role in shaping discourse in and around ‘new media’ in the 90s and early aughties. With Convergence, the centre is planting a flag down and reasserting their importance as a key international digital arts venue—here is CAN’s report on the proceedings.
08/12/2014Last week the prolific Toronto-based tech event organizer FITC hosted a daylong summit on wearable technology. With a lineup bookended by ‘the father of wearable computing’ Steve Mann and Social Body Lab founder Kate Hartman, the invited speakers offered a range of opinions on ‘what’s next for wearables?’ for an audience of curious developers.
20/11/2014The first post of a series on the state-of-the-art of live media performance curated by Federica Patti, focus on live stream. With three live shows to see and follow here.
Tags: body / currents new media / digital art / installation / live / live performance / liveness / multimedia performance / theatre / virtual reality / wi-fi
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.
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
In perceiving established cultural and historical rituals through the lens of contemporary technology, Choy Ka Fai opens up a liminal space in which dance transcends colonial resistance, power and fantasy.
In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
Tags: Daito Manabe / Elevenplay / Events / exhibition / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / online / performance / review / rhizomatiks
Reckoning with quantum physics, Japanese avant-garde art scene “maestro” Hiroaki Umeda hypostatizes that these batches of abstract information are merely human belief system: “When one has confidence in an object’s factuality they name it as real, and when this confidence is slightly undermined they rename it as virtual” he stated.
Spanning physical and virtual space, Peter Burr’s exhibition, Responsive Eye, examines contemporary life in the grid. Taking cues from minimalism and op art, the work pushes the limits of a viewer’s perception and awareness, thrusting them into that gap between what is seen and what is felt. In this interview by Daniel Glendening, Burr digs into history, things that are not there, and what it means to be fleshy bodies gathering in digital space.
Tags: body / digital art / exhibition / game / geometry / isolation / online / op art / painting / pandemic / perception / Peter Burr / technology / virtual
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
In October CAN headed to Pittsburgh to toast the 30th Anniversary of The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. The event was accompanied by “Intersections,” a dynamic group exhibition showcasing many of the anti-disiciplinary works produced within the labs. Here, we review the show and share details about various included works.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / andy warhol / Claire Hentschker / CMU / cory arcangel / event / exhibition / featured / Golan Levin / james george / Jon Rubin / Jonathan Minard / Madeline Gannon / media lab / Miller Gallery / moon / Pablo Garcia / Pittsburgh / review / Tahir Hemphill / The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
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
Ottawa-based Artengine is looking for Canadian and U.S. artists, designers, and cultural producers to take part in its Digital Economies Lab (DEL), a “year-long exploration of the wonders and anguish of making art and culture in the 21st century.”
Tags: artengine / call / economy / holo / opportunity / Ottawa / research / speculative design
In Elektra’s 20th year common themes from throughout the history of the festival of machinic bodies and digital transcendence are explored in depth and pushed to their extremes.
Tags: Alex Garland / Alexis Langevin-Tetrault / Dave Gagnon / Edwin van der Heide / Elektra / ergonomics / FALAISES / Guillaume Cote / Jeff VanDerMeer / Justine Ermad / Kurt Hentschlager / LaTurbo Avedon / Louis-Philippe Demers / Matthew Biederman / MIAN / Michael Montanaro / monocolor / Myriam Bleau / NSDOS / PC Music / Peter Van Haaften / Rocio Berenguer / Sabrina Ratte / susy.technology / syntax
From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
Tags: artificial intelligence / Augmented Creativity / Bratislava / Cod.Act / Cognitive Science / Douglas Engelbart / Embodied Cognition / event / festival / Human Computer Interaction / Intelligence Augmentation / Kimchi and Chips / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / memo akten / rulr / Sensorium / Slovakia / Stefanie Posavec
A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
Tags: Adam Basanta / Addie Wagenknecht / Aleksandra Domanović / BIAN / Chikashi Miyama / Cod.Act / daniel rozin / Elektra / festival / IMDA / Manfred Mohr / MIAN / montreal / NSDOS / Ralf Baecker / review / SAT
From 24 May to 25 November 2018, in the framework the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s “Hors-les-murs” program, American artist Ian Cheng’s “Emissary Forks At Perfection” (2015-2016) is on display at the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia.
Tags: ai / Environment / Events / game / iam cheng / installation / projection / simulation / video game
Earlier this year SFPC in NYC was the host to alt-AI, a conference organised by Lauren Gardner and Gene Kogan to highlight and question artificial intelligence through the lens of artistic practice.
Tags: ai / artificial intelligence / conference / Events / machine learning / videos
In a little over a week, the 6th edition of TADAEX festival (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) takes place at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran, Iran. It’s a strong manifestation of the digital scene in Tehran and the people who make it possible, it features Iranian digital artists as well as far reaching international network of collaborators thanks to an ongoing residency program with NODE Forum for Digital Arts.
Tags: Ali Panahi / Amir Bastan / Ashkan Ghadimkhani / culture / development / Digital / documentation / festival / making / Mohsen Gallery / programme / scene / Tehran
In December 2015, SFPC were invited to participate at Day for Night festival in Houston, TX. SFPC co-founder Zach Lieberman, students from the fall 2015 session, and the larger SFPC community worked together to create ‘SFPC re-coded’, a project that presented over 50 animations from more than 30 different contributors.
Tags: code / Day For Night / event / Events / learning / openFrameworks / Processing / re-code / SFPC
Sónar+D 2016, the 4th International Congress for Digital Culture and Creative Technologies will be held in Barcelona on 16, 17 and 18 June and takes place within Sónar by Day.
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
Technarte is a two-day conference programme with international artists, scientists, researchers, technologists and academics gathering to show the most innovative and amazing projects linking their respective fields. 19/20 May 2016, Bilbao
Resonate is back to celebrate its fifth anniversary in Belgrade from 12th to 16th of April, 2016, providing an insight into the current developments in the fields of digital culture, visual arts and music.
A consideration of systems and scale in Marina Zurkow’s “MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans)” and Rachel Rose’s “Everything & More,” exhibitions recently mounted at (respectively) bitforms and the Whitney Museum for American Art in NYC.
Tags: bitforms / installation / logistics / Marina Zurkow / Rachel Rose / representation / review / video / Whitney Museum of American Art
“There Should be Gardens” is the title of the 14th edition of InterAccess’s Emerging Artists Exhibition. Drawing on her research in feminist/queer curatorial and media arts practices, the exhibition is curated by Toronto’s Amber Christensen and showcases five Canadian early career artists whose practices address “the interconnectedness of technologies, ecologies, botanies, gender and the cosmos.” In aggregate the show’s selected works invoke elemental qualities, amplify and abstract natural materialities, and offer different modes of seeing and engaging the world. With the show winding down this week, CAN engaged Christensen in a Q&A to unpack the show’s framing and provocative works.
Tags: Adrienne Crossman / Alana Bartol / Alize Zorlutuna / Amber Christensen / Anna Eyler / ecology / exhibition / featured / Feminism / InterAccess / Kara Stone / Queer / Theory / toronto
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 sixteenth edition of Montréal’s ELEKTRA festival took place from May 13th-17th and delivered a range of audiovisual performances and installations addressing the notion of ‘post-audio’ or perception beyond sound—CAN was on hand to have our retinas singed and eardrums buzzed by the ‘POST-AUDIO’-themed programming.
Tags: Baltan Laboratories / BIAS / bitforms / Carsten Nicolai / Clinker / Cod.Act / Diamond Version / Elektra / festival / Frank Bretschneider / Gary James Joynes / IMDA / Kontejner / Martin Messier / Matthew Biederman / Maxime Damecour / Microwave / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / Myriam Bleau / Olaf Bender / Paul Prudence / Pierce Warnecke / review / The Art of Failure
Sónar+D is the international conference for creativity and technology, designed to promote talent and business opportunities in the digital culture environment.
Toronto-based curator Marla Wasser is the mind behind “RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine”, a media art exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that contains work by media art heroes like Angela Bulloch, Jim Campbell, Manfred Mohr, Alan Rath, and Daniel Rozin. Wasser recently engaged in an extensive interview with CAN, in which she shares some behind-the-scenes details about her show.
Tags: Alan Rath / Angela Bulloch / Art Gallery of Nova Scotia / daniel rozin / exhibtiion / featured / interview / Jim Campbell / Manfred Mohr / Marla Wasser / RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine / THEMUSEUM
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
Convergence Summit, a four day conference “on art + technology” that took place at the Banff Centre Nov 27-29th. Located in the idyllic mountain-surrounded town of Banff, Alberta, the massive arts incubator played a important role in shaping discourse in and around ‘new media’ in the 90s and early aughties. With Convergence, the centre is planting a flag down and reasserting their importance as a key international digital arts venue—here is CAN’s report on the proceedings.
Tags: Antoine Bedard / Chris Salter / Cindy Poeremba / Clea Minaker / Conrad Bodman / event / FACT / Hiroaki Umeda / Kondition Pluriel / Michael Naimark / Mike Stubbs / Robin Fox / The Banff Centre
Last week the prolific Toronto-based tech event organizer FITC hosted a daylong summit on wearable technology. With a lineup bookended by ‘the father of wearable computing’ Steve Mann and Social Body Lab founder Kate Hartman, the invited speakers offered a range of opinions on ‘what’s next for wearables?’ for an audience of curious developers.
Tags: event / FITC / gesture / interaction design / Kate Hartman / Steve Mann / toronto / wearable