Updates, announcements, and curated insights featuring projects, events, calls, and great reads.
V7 Development Log (10/2026)
Hello World! Press Tab to enter Constructor to explore, build, or publish. Also: 12 new Topics generated from embeddings, a wave of V7 updates. Beta is available to all Members!
V7 Development Log (09/2026) – HB*18
Today, CAN crossed the threshold into adulthood! 18 years in, we’re stepping into a new era with CAN V7. More than a visual refresh, V7 is both an engine & environment—rethinking how web publishing functions from the ground up.
Rill Sound – A family of four small AV instruments for Stick S3
Rill Sound is a family of four small audiovisual instruments that pair evolving music with generative visuals.
V6 Development Log (07/2026)
Two months, four big wins: Archives Browser rebuilt with a 3D Semantic Space, API docs reborn as an interactive browser with a new Search API, Activity turns one year old, hits 2.1.0 and gets faster with in-app Search + Liquid Glass.
Patternflow – An Open-Source LED Synthesizer Reinterpreting Participation TV
Patternflow, an open-source LED synthesizer by Seunghun Lee, reimagines Nam June Paik's Participation TV (1963) — four knobs reshape light patterns in real time, and others are already building and sharing their own.
Why Creativity Cannot Be Interpolated
AI systems can produce individually novel outputs, but novelty alone is not creativity. They argue that genuine creativity requires respect for constraints and that current AI systems lack this capacity.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI
Amnesty International brief examining how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
V6 Development Log (05/2026)
Activity iOS V2 is out! Members can join CAN, manage, and renew accounts in-app. Non-members can browse the feed without an account. Plus, seamless logins, instant loading, data export, plus many bug fixes and UX improvements.
Dreamrs Studio — Open alpha and a founding cohort for natural-language AV authoring and live performance
Dreamrs is in open alpha. We are seating a cohort of artists and engineers from the CAN community — practitioners who would use the studio to build real work and shape what the platform becomes next.
V6 Development Log (03/2026)
Activity gets a major update: LiveURLs let you embed p5.js, video, audio and more directly in posts. Custom Themes let you personalise CAN. API v2.3 and iOS v1.5.1 add Analytics and Channels.
Paramnésico by Desilence at Load Gallery
Load gallery celebrates its second birthday with a solo exhibition Paramnésico by Desilence, pioneers of visual scenography and real-time motion video.
Scruple – A Chrome extension that replaces moral hesitation with computation
Scruple reads your Gmail, runs four ethical frameworks in parallel, and writes the replies — simulating compassion, automating principle, outsourcing guilt.
V6 Development Log (02/2026)
February’s push debuts CAN API (v2.1) and our iOS App (v1.3.1). Members can now participate in Activity directly via mobile, or build their own micro-apps using the API.
Constella – Supporting Storywriters’ Interconnected Character Creation through LLM-based Multi-Agents
Constella is a AI-based creativity support tool that uses social media-inspired interactions to help storywriters build interconnected character casts.
Whose future is liveable?
Article by Jake Fremantle discussing two recent books on ecological politics by Nicholas Beuret and Thea Riofrancos and the pathways to resisting capital's ecological destruction.
paint.stx – Drawing tool combining hydra and p5.js
Select a brush and adjust its appearance with the sliders or live code the brush in the editor (+ show).
soft_launch x InterAccess – Spring 2026 Creative Tech Weekend Intensives
Take the next step in your art practice by learning creative technology, or expand your experience with technology into the arts. Gain IA membership, a supportive community, and showcase your work in our gallery.
V6 Development Log (01/2026)
Revamped Activity features threaded chats, AJAX "Load More," filters, and private "Daps." Security is bolstered by a custom built shield to block scrapers and bots.
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
What happens when large language models (LLMs) drive an adversarial evolutionary arms race where programs continuously adapt to defeat a growing history of opponents.
F.A.T Lab Returns
3,652 days later, F.A.T Lab (Free Art & Technology) returns! New site features recent projects and promises more troublemaking.
Pattern Project – Collaborative hand drawing
The Pattern Project revolves around collaborative pattern development, embracing intuitive, form and experiment-driven approach, working in cooperation with artists, students, children, and museum visitors.
Trick the Ear Audio Engine (TEA-E) – Spatial Audio Engine
Trick the Ear is a spatial audio engine and audio mixer to create an illusion that the sound is moving between multiple speakers.
V6 Development Log (12/2025)
With over 7,382 Git commits and 303 files later, 2025 was sure busy. CAN has undergone a transformation––what was once a blog is now a community infrastructure!
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2026
This unique summer school, held in Nevers (FR), is for students, artists, designers, hackers, activists + educators who wish to engage in critical research around the social + environmental impacts of information + communication technologies.
Flow States: Art, Nature, and Procedural Play – Tin & Ed
Tin and Ed, Australian artists based in New York, use Houdini to simulate the complexity of natural systems, from cellular structures to shifting landscapes.
