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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.
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.
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.
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!
V6 Development Log (11/2025)
This month: Articles now show related projects by the same person (People). Educational Accounts revamped—managers can edit details from their Personal Account. Saved feature updated: now save Events, Members, People, & Tools site-wide, logged in ...
V6 Development Log (10/2025)
New CAN update adds Events—now on the front page with Google Calendar sync and iCal downloads. Activity gets unread mention emails, event cards, city maps, and updated themes. Plus, CAN turned 17 this month!
V6 Development Log (08/2025)
New CAN update brings four new themes—Silver, Carbon, Red, and NC, Activity gains new cards for Instagram/Twitter plus better commenting with @mentions. RSS tracking and reporting, ad-block monitoring, faster Activity loading, bug fixes, and an op...
V6 Development Log (07/2025)
Latest V6 features and fixes: Activity, weekly newsletter, keyboard navigation, better reports + more!
Introducing: Activity – Networked Permaculture
Activity is a whole new way to interact with content, ideas, and each other on CAN. Learn more about it in this guide and Q&A.
V6 Development Log (05/2025)
Latest V6 features and fixes: Long-form articles, night mode, calendar, locations, last week + more!
Hello V6 – F(ea/u)tures
It’s been just over a month since the quiet rollout of V6, and after weeks of fixes, additions, and polish, we’re ready to say it: V6 is here!
Looking Ahead: CAN––V6
After a well-deserved break, we’re now stepping into 2025 with fresh energy and renewed focus. As a community-driven platform that thrives on understanding how technology shapes society, we’re excited to set out our mission for 2025. This year is ...
New: Full-Content RSS Feed
We’re excited to introduce a brand-new feature for CAN Members: an enhanced RSS feed that offers an easy and convinient way to stay connected with all the latest on CAN.
Document 1. – Symposium Report
Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series 'Document #.' examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
Document 1. – CAN’s new event series examines cross-disciplinary practice
CAN has joined forces with UAL Creative Computing Institute to present the first in a series of events that examine new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice. Entitled "Document 1.", it’s comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposi...
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!
Otherly Space/Knowledge – Questions of knowledge in the age of data
Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
A-B-Z-TXT 2017 – Call for Participants
A-B-Z-TXT is back as the ‘school for 21st century typography’—and it is looking for international applicants. Apply to join Zach Lieberman, Mindy Seu, Ali S. Qadeer, and others in Toronto Aug 17-20 for four days of masterclasses, workshops, and le...
Facets of ‘New Making’ – Tektonics at ACT Festival
Huge stroboscopic datastreams, hypnotic human-machine choreographies, a cacophony of Korean, Japanese, English, German, and French – ten weeks ago, from November 25th to 28th 2015, an unlikely cross-cultural exchange took over the all new ACT Cent...
Two weeks till Gwangju: ACT Festival / November 25-28, South Korea
As the ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea, and an all-star cast of more than sixty international artists, designers and cultural producers gear up for the inaugural edition of ACT Festival, the details of our four day program have begun to roll ou...
ACT Festival 2015 – Four Days of Tremors, Shifts, Tektonics
CAN is thrilled to announce the first edition of #ACTFestival – a four-day summit that combines a world class exhibition, a symposium, a performance and workshop program, and takes place November 25th to 28th / Gwangju, South Korea.
Open Call for ‘Creators in Lab’ at ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea
As part of a major festival collaboration later in the year, CAN is excited to announce the launch of the ‘Creators in Lab’ residency program at the brand new ACT Center in Gwangju, South Korea. Interdisciplinary practitioners take note!
NODE Forum for Digital Arts 2015
The biennial festival NODE – Forum for Digital Arts, is back next year taking place between April 27th until May 3rd 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany.
CAN at the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Lights” (11/12 October 2014)
Later this week CreativeApplications.Net is joining the Moscow-based sound, art and technology community MIGZ for yet another edition of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Lights” festival taking place between 10th and 14th October.
EWHA’s Cross Media Lab, Kimchi and Chips and CAN present: The Distortion Field
Curated in collaboration with EWHA's Cross Media Lab, Kimchi and Chips and CreativeApplications.Net, The Distortion Field is a discussion concerning the connection between artists and audiences within emerging media.
Super Flying Tokyo, February 1-2, 2014
Rhizomatiks and Daito Manabe proudly present “Super Flying Tokyo” taking place on February 1st and 2nd, 2014 in Tokyo featuring CreativeApplications.Net
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Nick Montfort
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Orkan Telhan
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Madeline Gannon
Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer and inventor forging new futures for human-robot relations.
Cohen Van Balen
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen (UK/BE) work across objects, installation and film that explore processes of production as cultural, personal and political practices. They work and live in London.
Future Sketches Group
MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approaches can help inform a new generation of computational craft.