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Created by Michael Candy, ‘Cryptid’ is an animatronic light sculpture that uses 18 linear actuators and open source Phoenix hexapod code to walk through a space. As human and robotic, natural and synthetic are increasingly amalgamated, the projects questions whether machines could be considered a subspecies.
21/07/2021‘Algorithmic Drive’ is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
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30/01/2019As 2018 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular machines, intricate tools and mesmerising performances and installations to the new mediums for artistic enquiry – so many great new projects have been added to the CAN archive! With your help we selected some favourites.
31/12/2018Created by the team at MIT Media Lab’s Meditated Matter Group, Fiberbots is a digital fabrication framework fusing cooperative swarm robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material structures.
27/09/2018Created by Piet Schmidt during the summer semester at UdK Berlin (New Media / Digital Class), Encounter is a a robotic arm with a mirror that curiously observes its surroundings.
17/09/2018The chAIr Project is a series of four chairs created using a generative neural network (GAN) trained on a dataset of iconic 20th-century chairs with the goal to “generate a classic”. The results are semi-abstract visual prompts for a human designer who used them as a starting point for actual chair design concepts.
09/08/2018Created by the SCI-Arc faculty Curime Batliner and Jake Newsum in collaboration with Paralelo Architectos, Anachronic Landscapes is a robotic system that lives inside of an abandoned industrial structure overgrown by nature. The system executes its daily routine, nurturing the plants with water and fertilising it with fluorescent fluids. While the machine keeps the plants alive it simultaneously ignites a process of transformation forcing the plants to adapt to the new condition.
12/12/2017The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
31/03/2017Created by Filipe Vilas-Boas and Paul Coudamy, The Punishment is an installation in which a robot executes a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience in reference of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
29/03/2017In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
20/03/2017Created at the Köln International School of Design and supervised by Prof. Andreas Muxel, Feedback Machines is a short student project that explores the concept of feedback loops, as an attempt to introduce students to physical computing as well as provide a perspective on the complex topic through experimental explorations.
16/11/2016Created by Alexia Léchot at ECAL, Deltu is a delta robot with a personality that interacts with humans using two iPads. Created using arm technology normally found in 3d printers, Deltu uses three different applications on the iPad Alexia built for it, using symmetry as an interpretation, a mirror and a reflexion of our own image.
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15/08/2016Created by N O R M A L S and published on FRAMED platform, L I T T L E B R O W S E R is an experimental web browser and game engine hybrid created using Processing. Fed with a single ‘home’ url, an autonomous crawler navigates web pages of which main elements have been translated into game objects—links become gates, divs are clouds, images turns to trees, etc.
11/08/2016Created as a collaboration between Prokop Bartoníček and Benjamin Maus, Jller is part of an their ongoing research in the field of industrial automation and historical geology. Installation includes an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age.
19/05/2016Created by Madeline Gannon, Quipt is a gesture-based control software that facilitates new ways to communicate with industrial robots.
17/12/2015Created by Miguel Nóbrega, Possible, Plausible, Potential is a set of three series of isometric drawings generated by code and printed with colored markers on a plotter machine. In these drawings, Miguel explores a bridge between the iterative aspect of algorithms and the utopian aspect of modern architecture.
03/11/2015Conditional_Lover is a bot that unlike its counterparts that live hidden in servers, has a physical appearance with a task to automate your Tinder using its “eyes” and “fingers”. It does this by analysing photos on your phone (webcam) and then selects or rejects it (prongs) based on an algorithm that combines your preferred age, golden ratio, smile, glasses, ethnicity etc.
10/08/2015Created by the Weimar based collective weAREmedienkuenstler, Rock Paper Scissors is a game played between two computers. Like in the classic game, each computer has its own random algorithm running, choosing one of the three possible items. Connected by an ethernet cable, each computer plays its hand — the winning pc gets a point.
28/10/2013The Well–Sequenced Synthesizer is a series of sequencers created by Luisa Pereira at ITP — physical interfaces to play with musical rules.
23/09/2013Andreas Nicolas Fischer created a Python script that creates arrangements of intersecting digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation, similar to a traditional still life, but with no physical constraints.
11/06/2013In this social networking microcosm where the living, content generators, the dead, automated bots, spammers all share a peaceful coexistence, Matt Pearson questions his “other” self who speaks his language and says just the kind of things he would say.
29/04/2013Cycles 720 is an hybrid visual/audio sequencer by Craig Allan aka Numbercult where sound is dictated by properties of graphic elements.
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31/05/2011In cooperation with Christien Meindertsma, Nils Völker developed an installation for Christien’s exhibition at the MU in Eindhoven (Netherlands). The exhibition was called “Makers & Spectators” and was about the human perception and the way we look at things.
28/11/2009Created by Michael Candy, ‘Cryptid’ is an animatronic light sculpture that uses 18 linear actuators and open source Phoenix hexapod code to walk through a space. As human and robotic, natural and synthetic are increasingly amalgamated, the projects questions whether machines could be considered a subspecies.
Tags: 3d printing / ars electronica / automation / autonomous / basic / Environment / Fluorescent lamps / light / Michael Candy / phoenix hexapod / robotics / sculpture / swarm
‘Algorithmic Drive’ is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
Tags: automation / autonomous cars / featured / François Quévillon / opencv / performance / SegNet / simulation / Sound / UMAP / youtube
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Tags: ANN / artificial intelligence / automation / computation / earth / neural network / satellite imagery / SHI Weili / space / topology
As 2018 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular machines, intricate tools and mesmerising performances and installations to the new mediums for artistic enquiry – so many great new projects have been added to the CAN archive! With your help we selected some favourites.
Tags: 2018 / 3d printing / Adrien Kaeser / algorithm / automation / automato / blockchain / cloud / drawing / EEG / film / furniture / fuse / Giulia Tomasello / interactive / iot / Jessica In / Kimchi and Chips / LUST / machine / machine learning / Maria Smigieska / Matteo Zamagni / Matthias Dörfelt / Mediated Matter / near-future / performance / Philipp Schmitt / Pierre Cutellic / projection / Ralf Baecker / Refik Anadol Studio / rndr / Sound / speculative / Steffen Weiss / tool / Waltz Binaire / weather
Created by the team at MIT Media Lab’s Meditated Matter Group, Fiberbots is a digital fabrication framework fusing cooperative swarm robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material structures.
Tags: architecture / automation / Barrak Darweesh / building / Christoph Bader / design / featured / fiberglass / framework / João Costa / Levi Cai / making / Markus Kayser / media lab / Mediated Matter / mit / Nassia Inglessis / Neri Oxman / robotics / Sara Falcone / structure / swarm
Created by Piet Schmidt during the summer semester at UdK Berlin (New Media / Digital Class), Encounter is a a robotic arm with a mirror that curiously observes its surroundings.
Tags: algorithm / automation / behaviour / curiosity / inverse kinematics / kinect / opencv / openFrameworks / Piet Schmidt / robotics / sensing / servo / tracking / udk
The chAIr Project is a series of four chairs created using a generative neural network (GAN) trained on a dataset of iconic 20th-century chairs with the goal to “generate a classic”. The results are semi-abstract visual prompts for a human designer who used them as a starting point for actual chair design concepts.
Tags: ai / automation / collaboration / design / featured / furniture / furniture design / machine learning / neural networks / Philipp Schmitt / Steffen Weiss
Created by the SCI-Arc faculty Curime Batliner and Jake Newsum in collaboration with Paralelo Architectos, Anachronic Landscapes is a robotic system that lives inside of an abandoned industrial structure overgrown by nature. The system executes its daily routine, nurturing the plants with water and fertilising it with fluorescent fluids. While the machine keeps the plants alive it simultaneously ignites a process of transformation forcing the plants to adapt to the new condition.
Tags: automation / coevolution / Curime Batliner / evolution / installation / Jake Newsum / nature / Paralelo Architectos / performance / robotics / sci-arc
The third edition of IAM’s yearly gathering for internet people, themed around The Renaissance of Utopias, using utopias as a tool to imagine better futures and navigate the complexity and uncertainty of our times.
Tags: ai / art / automation / barcelona / bruce sterling / design / Events / Inspiration / installation / media / panel discussion / politics / tickets / UBI
Created by Filipe Vilas-Boas and Paul Coudamy, The Punishment is an installation in which a robot executes a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience in reference of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
Tags: automation / Filipe Vilas-Boas / future / installation / Paul Coudamy / punishment / robotics / speculation
In 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
Created at the Köln International School of Design and supervised by Prof. Andreas Muxel, Feedback Machines is a short student project that explores the concept of feedback loops, as an attempt to introduce students to physical computing as well as provide a perspective on the complex topic through experimental explorations.
Tags: Andreas Muxel / Arturo Vélez Sánchez / automation / behaviour / Cheng-Chieh Tsai / Christoph Schnedler / Holly Martin Bates / Hortense Tollu / Johannes Wilhelm Bier / Julia Alfeo / loop / Lukas Höh / machines / process / project / Sascha Haus / student / system theory / teaching / video
Created by Alexia Léchot at ECAL, Deltu is a delta robot with a personality that interacts with humans using two iPads. Created using arm technology normally found in 3d printers, Deltu uses three different applications on the iPad Alexia built for it, using symmetry as an interpretation, a mirror and a reflexion of our own image.
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Tags: automation / design fiction / dunneandraby / machine learning / new school / parsons / process / speculation / speculative design / student
Created by N O R M A L S and published on FRAMED platform, L I T T L E B R O W S E R is an experimental web browser and game engine hybrid created using Processing. Fed with a single ‘home’ url, an autonomous crawler navigates web pages of which main elements have been translated into game objects—links become gates, divs are clouds, images turns to trees, etc.
Tags: artwork / automation / featured / framed / normals / process / Processing / semiotics / software / web browser
Created as a collaboration between Prokop Bartoníček and Benjamin Maus, Jller is part of an their ongoing research in the field of industrial automation and historical geology. Installation includes an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age.
Tags: algorithm / automation / Benjamin Maus / computer vision / geology / installation / opencv / performance / process / Prokop Bartoníček / sorting / stones
Created by Madeline Gannon, Quipt is a gesture-based control software that facilitates new ways to communicate with industrial robots.
Tags: abb / automation / Environment / Madeline Gannon / pier9 / rigging / robotics / simulation / spatial behaviour / vicon
Created by Miguel Nóbrega, Possible, Plausible, Potential is a set of three series of isometric drawings generated by code and printed with colored markers on a plotter machine. In these drawings, Miguel explores a bridge between the iterative aspect of algorithms and the utopian aspect of modern architecture.
Tags: automation / CNC / code / drawing / featured / generative / Miguel Nóbrega / paper architecture / plotter / Processing / speculative / texture
Conditional_Lover is a bot that unlike its counterparts that live hidden in servers, has a physical appearance with a task to automate your Tinder using its “eyes” and “fingers”. It does this by analysing photos on your phone (webcam) and then selects or rejects it (prongs) based on an algorithm that combines your preferred age, golden ratio, smile, glasses, ethnicity etc.
Tags: automation / behaviour / bot / device / human / Interface / mimicry / mobile / Saurabh Datta / simulation / software
Created by the Weimar based collective weAREmedienkuenstler, Rock Paper Scissors is a game played between two computers. Like in the classic game, each computer has its own random algorithm running, choosing one of the three possible items. Connected by an ethernet cable, each computer plays its hand — the winning pc gets a point.
Tags: ai / algorithm / artificial intelligence / automation / autonomous / ethernet / game / generative / play / Processing / weAREmedienkuenstler
The Well–Sequenced Synthesizer is a series of sequencers created by Luisa Pereira at ITP — physical interfaces to play with musical rules.
Tags: arduino / automation / device / itp / Luisa Pereira / performance / Processing / product / Sound / synthesizer
Andreas Nicolas Fischer created a Python script that creates arrangements of intersecting digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation, similar to a traditional still life, but with no physical constraints.
Tags: automation / blender / generative / photography / process / Processing / python / scripts / simulation / tumblr
In this social networking microcosm where the living, content generators, the dead, automated bots, spammers all share a peaceful coexistence, Matt Pearson questions his “other” self who speaks his language and says just the kind of things he would say.
Tags: art / automation / bots / code / dead media / design / learning / Matt Pearson / narrative / network / Novelty Waves / progress / social
Cycles 720 is an hybrid visual/audio sequencer by Craig Allan aka Numbercult where sound is dictated by properties of graphic elements.
Tags: ableton / automation / Craig Allan / generative / music / numbercult / performance / sequencer / Sound / visual / vvvv
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Tags: automation / Brandon Kruysman / design / Jonathan Proto / motion / photography / process / robotics / sci-arc
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Tags: automation / book / generative / google images / image / Karolis Kosas / php / print / publishing / zine
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Tags: automation / design / drawing / gesture / laser / laser cutter / Patrick Baudisch / Pedro Lopes / process / Stefanie Mueller
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Tags: Andreas Nicolas Fischer / automation / drawing / image / particles / photography / printing / Processing / swarm
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Tags: automation / information / Interface / media / Objects / Processing / screen
In cooperation with Christien Meindertsma, Nils Völker developed an installation for Christien’s exhibition at the MU in Eindhoven (Netherlands). The exhibition was called “Makers & Spectators” and was about the human perception and the way we look at things.
Tags: art / automation / capture / data / drawing / installation / lego / robot