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In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
20/03/2017“Evidentiary Realism” is an exhibition that delves into the aesthetics of sites of inaccessibility, incarceration, and intrigue. CAN’s NYC correspondent Dylan Schenker ponders the Paolo Cirio-curated show, which emerges from the collaboration of NOME and the Fridman Gallery.
16/03/2017Created by Saurabh Datta, border_ctrl explores future government agency, created to keep tabs of internet browsing of individuals. To keep a healthy control of one’s online activities, Internet Border Control[IBC] runs a daemon on individual’s computers.
15/03/2017What if tweaking rhythm and melodic loops was like editing DNA? This is the question at the heart of Seaquence, a new iOS app by Okaynokay where you populate a Petri dish with ‘creatures’ that visually represent their sonic properties. A bold step away from conventional interface paradigms, it blends notions of tool, instrument, and game into something new and distinct.
14/03/2017Game developer and 3D technical lead Keith O’Conor of Romero games recently wrote a ‘GPU Performance for Game Artists 101’ that breaks down the GPU pipeline from input assembly through to final render.
10/03/2017Created by Flower/Fu Dongting, weave/wave is an interactive artwork that converts portraits of visitors into a particle field that is used to construct a mirror image, one of data and sound.
10/03/2017A project by Design I/O for TIFF Kids International Film Festival’s interactive playground digiPlaySpace, Mimic brings a UR5 robotic arm to life and imbues it with personality. Playfully craning its neck to get a better look, arcing back when it is startled – it responds to each child that enters its field of view.
07/03/2017Created by Lauren McCarthy, “The Changing Room” installation invites participants to browse and select one of hundreds of emotions, then evoking that emotion in them and everyone in the space through a layered environment of light, visuals, sound, text, and interaction exhibited over a multi-level, many-sided display.
07/03/2017Ryoichi Kurokawa sets out a new phase of his use of space with light and sound, and how different mediums can be merged in space and time as single unit. node 5:5 fills the ACC in Gwangju, South Korea with mesmerising abstract information and imagery, intoxicating the viewer in an unforgettable visual, auditory and spatial experience.
03/03/2017Created by the visual artist Palmer Eldritch aka Denial of Service, “Onryō” is the latest in the series of audio/video releases that combines tech-noir chaos with reaction-diffusion sequences created in Max/Jitter, courtesy of Paul Fennell.
01/03/2017DiMoDa is a VR-based ‘digital museum for digital art’ initiated in 2015. After a busy 2016 the museum’s second iteration is currently showing at RISD Museum in Rhode Island. The museum’s co-founder Alfredo Salazar-Caro sheds a little light on where there platform has been, and where it is going.
24/02/2017Go Rando is a Chrome and Firefox extension by Ben Grosser that allows Facebook users to obfuscate their emotional reactions to prevent them from being surveilled and analyzed.
24/02/2017Powered by a dizzying array of parametric meta-controls, VIDEOGAMO’s ‘party console’ DOBOTONE invites (up to) four players to cycle through a strange and fiercely competitive selection of lo-fi videogames.
22/02/2017Created by Jonas Eltes at FABRICA, “Lost in Computation” is a a multilingual conversation between two Chatbot AIs trained in Swedish and Italian, translated through Google Translate, exploring how the multiple layers of computation in today’s digital landscape distorts our communication.
21/02/2017Just discovered: a presentation by Instrument builder and sound artist Derek Holzer, in which he catalogues the history of optical synthesis. It is worth a look as it cites a number of fairly obscure (and fascinating) precedents of interest to anyone working in audiovisual design.
17/02/2017Created by Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma, DESCENT is a “spiraling interdimensional narrative”, a meditation on one of humanity’s blackest hours. The downloadable exe gives the user a brief glimpse of a world descending into darkness – an unrelenting plague indifferent to the struggles of the user.
17/02/2017Artefact#0, Digital Necrophony is a recent installation by Lille-based artist Mathilde Lavenne that forgoes (burial and cremation) funerary convention in favour of sonification.
14/02/2017Created by digital design studio NEOANALOG , “Particle Flow” is a physical installation comprised of granules driven by gravity and topography forming an analogue particle system. A moving slanted plane and a grid of motorized stamps control the elements to form infinite variations of behaviours and patterns.
14/02/2017Drawing on multiple examples and historical precedents, media theorist Shannon Mattern explains the folly in Silicon Valley’s ambition to optimize cities.
13/02/2017Created by Studio Antimateria in collaboration with participating students at the workshop hosted by Presidio Temporaneo di Architettura, Shape in Scapes is an audiovisual installation that provides an abstract representation of students’ architectural projects.
09/02/2017Curator Jasia Reichardt introduces the “Cybernetic Serendipity” exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1968.
09/02/2017The Object of the Internet is a kinetic installation by Montréal-based artist duo Project EVA. Prepared for “The Dead Web” exhibition at Eastern Bloc, the apparatus invites viewers to put their heads inside an elaborate spinning apparatus that reflects and blurs their likeness and identity.
07/02/2017The Mylar Topology is a new audiovisual performance by the London-based artist Paul Prudence. In it liquid forms ripple along with binaural beats, forming vertebral columns and congealing oil slicks – which dissipate as quickly as they form.
03/02/2017Latest in the series of critical design projects by Shanghai design and research studio Automato, TraiNNing Cards is a set of 5000 training images, physically printed and handpicked by humans to train any of your machines to recognise first and favorite item in a house: a dog.
01/02/2017Interactive 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.
31/01/2017Grand prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. Submission phase ends on March 3, 2017!
31/01/2017Created by Sebastian Schmieg, ‘Decision Space’ explores how new datasets can enable new experiments in teaching computers how to understand images within a set of meaningful and complex categories.
27/01/2017Created by Bjørn Karmann at CIID, Objectifier empowers people to train objects in their daily environment to respond to their unique behaviours. Interacting with Objectifier is much like training a dog – you teach it only what you want it to care about. Just like a dog, it sees and understands its environment.
23/01/2017Part of a new series of posts inviting artists and curators to share latest projects on CAN, we’d like to introduce you to Evan Boehm, and his latest collaboration with Nexus Studios. Solace is an interactive animated film based on celebrated science fiction writer Jeff Noon’s short story about a near future in which marketing and addiction are disturbingly intertwined.
19/01/2017Created by Patten Studio and currently on display at SHoP Architects, Lift is comprised of 24 geometric petals attached to a single spine. Each petal, actuated using a shape memory alloy known as nitinol, can move up and down silently in response to motion it detects.
17/01/2017In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
Tags: ai / automation / bruce sterling / design / economics / lecture / politics / silicon valley / sxsw / talk / Theory / UBI
“Evidentiary Realism” is an exhibition that delves into the aesthetics of sites of inaccessibility, incarceration, and intrigue. CAN’s NYC correspondent Dylan Schenker ponders the Paolo Cirio-curated show, which emerges from the collaboration of NOME and the Fridman Gallery.
Tags: Amy Balkin / Eyal Weizman / featured / Fridman Gallery / Hans Haacke / Harun Farocki / Ingrid Burrington / James Bridle / Jan Nikolai Nelles / Josh Begley / Kirsten Stoll / Kirsten Stolle / Mark Lombardi / Navine G. Khan-Dossos / NOME / Nora Al-Badri / nyc / Paolo Cirio / representation / surveillance / Suzanne Treister / Thomas Keenan
Created by Saurabh Datta, border_ctrl explores future government agency, created to keep tabs of internet browsing of individuals. To keep a healthy control of one’s online activities, Internet Border Control[IBC] runs a daemon on individual’s computers.
Tags: applescript / control / immigration / internet / privacy / python / Saurabh Datta / security
What if tweaking rhythm and melodic loops was like editing DNA? This is the question at the heart of Seaquence, a new iOS app by Okaynokay where you populate a Petri dish with ‘creatures’ that visually represent their sonic properties. A bold step away from conventional interface paradigms, it blends notions of tool, instrument, and game into something new and distinct.
Tags: app / artifical life / Cinder / Flash / Gabriel Dunne / ios / music interface / Okaynokay / pure data / Ryan Alexander / sequencer / Sound / synthesizer
Game developer and 3D technical lead Keith O’Conor of Romero games recently wrote a ‘GPU Performance for Game Artists 101’ that breaks down the GPU pipeline from input assembly through to final render.
Created by Flower/Fu Dongting, weave/wave is an interactive artwork that converts portraits of visitors into a particle field that is used to construct a mirror image, one of data and sound.
Tags: code / data / flocking / flower / Fu Dongting / identity / installation / Processing / screen / simulation / vosialization
A project by Design I/O for TIFF Kids International Film Festival’s interactive playground digiPlaySpace, Mimic brings a UR5 robotic arm to life and imbues it with personality. Playfully craning its neck to get a better look, arcing back when it is startled – it responds to each child that enters its field of view.
Tags: computer vision / Dan Moore / debugview / Design I/O / digiPlaySpace / Emily Gobeille / featured / interactive / kids / Madeline Gannon / Nick Hardeman / Nick Pagee / ofxRobotArm / ofxURDriver / openFrameworks / robotics / Ryerson University / Theo Watson / TIFF
Created by Lauren McCarthy, “The Changing Room” installation invites participants to browse and select one of hundreds of emotions, then evoking that emotion in them and everyone in the space through a layered environment of light, visuals, sound, text, and interaction exhibited over a multi-level, many-sided display.
Tags: ars electronica / artwork / creativeappsnet / emotion / installation / Lauren McCarthy / residency / text / transmit / typography / unity / visuals
Ryoichi Kurokawa sets out a new phase of his use of space with light and sound, and how different mediums can be merged in space and time as single unit. node 5:5 fills the ACC in Gwangju, South Korea with mesmerising abstract information and imagery, intoxicating the viewer in an unforgettable visual, auditory and spatial experience.
Tags: Asia Culture Center / Asia Culture Institute / Bipolar / Cinder / d3 / dmx / featured / Hiroshi Matoba / installation / kinetic / laser / light / Nicolas Wierinck / openFrameworks / osc / performance / projection / Ryoichi Kurokawa / Seong-hoon Bahn / Stereolux / White Circle
Created by the visual artist Palmer Eldritch aka Denial of Service, “Onryō” is the latest in the series of audio/video releases that combines tech-noir chaos with reaction-diffusion sequences created in Max/Jitter, courtesy of Paul Fennell.
Tags: 3dstudiomax / creativeappsnet / Denial of Service / jitter / MaxMSP / Palmer Eldritch / Paul Fennell / process / Processing / reaction diffusion / ready / Sound / visual
DiMoDa is a VR-based ‘digital museum for digital art’ initiated in 2015. After a busy 2016 the museum’s second iteration is currently showing at RISD Museum in Rhode Island. The museum’s co-founder Alfredo Salazar-Caro sheds a little light on where there platform has been, and where it is going.
Tags: Alfredo Salazar-Caro / Art && Code / curation / DiMoDA / Eileen Isagon Skyers / featured / Helena Acosta / immersive / oculus rift / platform / RISD Museum / Transfer Gallery / virtual reality / vr / William Robertson
Go Rando is a Chrome and Firefox extension by Ben Grosser that allows Facebook users to obfuscate their emotional reactions to prevent them from being surveilled and analyzed.
Tags: Ben Grosser / chrome extension / emotion / facebook / firefox extension / social media / surveillance
Powered by a dizzying array of parametric meta-controls, VIDEOGAMO’s ‘party console’ DOBOTONE invites (up to) four players to cycle through a strange and fiercely competitive selection of lo-fi videogames.
Tags: 8bit / Alt.Ctrl.GDC / controller / digiPlaySpace / gaming / Hernán Sáez / interaction / Interface / lo-fi / Máximo Balestrini / prototyping / retro / social / TIFF / unity / videogames / VIDEOGAMO
Created by Jonas Eltes at FABRICA, “Lost in Computation” is a a multilingual conversation between two Chatbot AIs trained in Swedish and Italian, translated through Google Translate, exploring how the multiple layers of computation in today’s digital landscape distorts our communication.
Tags: chat bot / Events / fabrica / featured / google translate / installation / Jonas Eltes / language / nodejs / Raspberry Pi / translation / WebSockets
Just discovered: a presentation by Instrument builder and sound artist Derek Holzer, in which he catalogues the history of optical synthesis. It is worth a look as it cites a number of fairly obscure (and fascinating) precedents of interest to anyone working in audiovisual design.
Created by Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma, DESCENT is a “spiraling interdimensional narrative”, a meditation on one of humanity’s blackest hours. The downloadable exe gives the user a brief glimpse of a world descending into darkness – an unrelenting plague indifferent to the struggles of the user.
Tags: film / Forma / game engine / interactive / Mark Fingerhut / Peter Burr / UNDERVOLT / unity
Artefact#0, Digital Necrophony is a recent installation by Lille-based artist Mathilde Lavenne that forgoes (burial and cremation) funerary convention in favour of sonification.
Tags: arduino / Centre Pompidou / Daniel Cabanzo / data / death / Etienne Landon / installation / IRCAM / Le Fresnoy / Mathilde Lavenne / normals / sonification / Sound / speculative design
Created by digital design studio NEOANALOG , “Particle Flow” is a physical installation comprised of granules driven by gravity and topography forming an analogue particle system. A moving slanted plane and a grid of motorized stamps control the elements to form infinite variations of behaviours and patterns.
Tags: arduino / creative technology / creativeappsnet / featured / installation / landscape / midi / NEOANALOG / particle field / particles / process / Processing / simulation
Drawing on multiple examples and historical precedents, media theorist Shannon Mattern explains the folly in Silicon Valley’s ambition to optimize cities.
Tags: alphabet / Dan Hill / Lewis Mumford / Places Journal / Shannon Mattern / technology / ubiquitous computing / urbanism / Y Combinator
Created by Studio Antimateria in collaboration with participating students at the workshop hosted by Presidio Temporaneo di Architettura, Shape in Scapes is an audiovisual installation that provides an abstract representation of students’ architectural projects.
Tags: architecture / creativeappsnet / learning / mapping / media design / performance / projection / students / visualization
Curator Jasia Reichardt introduces the “Cybernetic Serendipity” exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1968.
The Object of the Internet is a kinetic installation by Montréal-based artist duo Project EVA. Prepared for “The Dead Web” exhibition at Eastern Bloc, the apparatus invites viewers to put their heads inside an elaborate spinning apparatus that reflects and blurs their likeness and identity.
Tags: Carmen Hermosillo / CNC / Eastern Bloc / Etienne Grenier / installation / kinetic / lasercut / led / mirror / montreal / Nathalie Bachand / Project EVA / Simon Laroche / web
The Mylar Topology is a new audiovisual performance by the London-based artist Paul Prudence. In it liquid forms ripple along with binaural beats, forming vertebral columns and congealing oil slicks – which dissipate as quickly as they form.
Tags: ableton / audiovisual / binaural / improvisation / Ira Cohen / music / panorama / Paul Prudence / performance / real time / Sound / vvvv
Latest in the series of critical design projects by Shanghai design and research studio Automato, TraiNNing Cards is a set of 5000 training images, physically printed and handpicked by humans to train any of your machines to recognise first and favorite item in a house: a dog.
Tags: automato / cards / creative technology / creativeappsnet / critical design / design / machine learning / media technology / neural networks / object / research / training
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
Grand prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. Submission phase ends on March 3, 2017!
Created by Sebastian Schmieg, ‘Decision Space’ explores how new datasets can enable new experiments in teaching computers how to understand images within a set of meaningful and complex categories.
Tags: ai / artificial intelligence / creativeappsnet / crowdsourcing / dataset / exhibition / javascript / machine learning / photography / process / Sebastian Schmieg / Tensorflow
Created by Bjørn Karmann at CIID, Objectifier empowers people to train objects in their daily environment to respond to their unique behaviours. Interacting with Objectifier is much like training a dog – you teach it only what you want it to care about. Just like a dog, it sees and understands its environment.
Tags: Bjørn Karmann / creative technology / creativeappsnet / domesticity / internet of things / machine learning / Objects / openFrameworks / Processing / programming / RasperryPi / training
Part of a new series of posts inviting artists and curators to share latest projects on CAN, we’d like to introduce you to Evan Boehm, and his latest collaboration with Nexus Studios. Solace is an interactive animated film based on celebrated science fiction writer Jeff Noon’s short story about a near future in which marketing and addiction are disturbingly intertwined.
Tags: animation / book / collaboration / creative technology / Evan Boehm / featured / fiction / film / Gethin Anthony / interactive / interactive fiction / javascript / Jeff Noon / nexus studios / short film / speculative fiction / storytelling / tonejs / web film
Created by Patten Studio and currently on display at SHoP Architects, Lift is comprised of 24 geometric petals attached to a single spine. Each petal, actuated using a shape memory alloy known as nitinol, can move up and down silently in response to motion it detects.
Tags: biomimicry / custom / installation / lighting / Patten Studio / responsive / sculpture / shape memory
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