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Dates | 19th – 28th May, 2022Times | 12noon – 7pmLocation | Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DGTickets | timed entry by donation – BOOK HEREContact | insta: @kai.lab_ / info@kailaboratory.com / www.kailaboratory.com Repeating cycles shape our behaviour and environment. From the rotation of the Earth, to the beat of the heart, much of what…
29/04/2022From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The result is an exhibition of work-in-progress, where the public is invited to take a look, participate and contribute.
23/06/2021Created by Random Studio in collaboration with Arnout Meijer and RWA Electronics, the project is comprised of a lighting system in Random’s studio that emulates the movement of the sun and the ever-evolving states of natural light.
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29/06/2020CAN 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.
03/10/2019Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
25/07/2019CAN 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 symposium, and takes place March 11th–13th at UAL’s Camberwell College of Art in London.
25/02/2019Questioning our notions of wellbeing to develop innovative tools in the intersection of medical and social sciences, Giulia Tomasello investigates the potential of biotechnology and living materials, proposing a biological and sustainable alternative for electronic textiles and more.
05/11/2018Created 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.
27/09/2018The 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 N O R M A L S, “The Future Fishing Training Program” is a film about a speculative device and a programme designed to allow users and companies to discover glimpses of a desirable future through stories and artefacts.
10/11/2017Created by Matthieu Cherubini, Ethical Autonomous Vehicles project explores the implications of near-future scenario where most vehicles on the road are autonomous.
26/10/2017House of Shadow Silence is a VR experience by Portland-based software artist Jeremy Rotzstain. In it, the artist recreates Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler’s 1929 movie theatre the Film Guild Cinema and uses it to ‘build a world’ of light, geometry, and motion.
04/10/2017Developed at Strelka during the ‘The New Normal Program’ in 2017, ‘SHIFT’ (Arthur Röing Baer, Christian Lavista, Dmitry Alferov, Liza Dorrer) is a project that engages with stages of automation of the trucking industry in Russia, working with the socio-political, physical, and spatial particulars of logistics in the country’s vast territory.
20/07/2017A-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 lectures.
28/06/2017The 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.
31/03/2017In his annual SXSW wrapup, science fiction author and design theorist Bruce Sterling laid a smackdown on Silicon Valley re: AI and automation.
20/03/2017Latest 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.
01/02/2017Created by Reza Ali, F3, [Form From Function], is a playful and powerful 3D design app that enables you to live code 3D form, rapidly iterate on its design, and export for 3D printing, rendering and animation. F3 uses signed distance functions (SDFs) to build forms – designing 3D forms using 2D image cross sections.
27/09/2016Created by Steffen Hartwig, On the Secret Life of Things is a series of experimental prototypes that explore the new and ubiquitous things of daily life. Using familiar objects, the objects are repurposed, limited to their original function/behaviour but re-imagined for the age of information.
13/09/2016Continuing his exploration of personal objects in the age of information overload, Manual Reader and Memory Device are two new devices by Ishac Bertran that address perception, personal data collection and memory.
06/07/2016Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.
17/02/2016A P P A R E L is an augmented reality experimental fashion prototype by the Paris-based anticipatory design studio N O R M A L S. Turning data and network activity into identity and style, the project replaces the details of contemporary couture with jiggly mesh geometry digital overlays.
10/02/2016226 pages, 42 contributors, 22 features, HOLO 2 is ready to go to press: the magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology is back with another issue. Take a tour and order your copy at today.
11/12/2015Created by Eun Young Park, LINKKI is a kinetic construction toy based on planar linkage mechanism which allows users to design and prototype kinetic movements.
26/10/2015CAN and Swiss artist and designer Jürg Lehni will join an eclectic cast of international creators at this year’s OFFF MX (24 – 26 September) to “feed the future”.
17/09/2015Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through projected visions of alternative energies and flight.
25/06/2015Created by Adam W. Brown in collaboration with Robert Root-Bernstein, ReBioGeneSys – Origins of Life is an extreme minimal ecosystems theoretically capable of forming the self-organizing chemistries necessary to produce semi-living molecules and perhaps even protocells.
22/04/2015Created by William Fairbrother, Alberto Ruiz Soler and Oliver Smith, ERIS—2000 is a fictional scientific instrument invented by cybernetician Erica Symms in 1971. The device was used to show and study, through a simplified simulation, the consequences of human decisions on complex systems.
16/02/2015Now in its 8th year, FITC Amsterdam 2015 is host to the latest and greatest in design, technology and cool shit from all around the globe.
08/12/2014Dates | 19th – 28th May, 2022Times | 12noon – 7pmLocation | Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DGTickets | timed entry by donation – BOOK HEREContact | insta: @kai.lab_ / info@kailaboratory.com / www.kailaboratory.com Repeating cycles shape our behaviour and environment. From the rotation of the Earth, to the beat of the heart, much of what…
Tags: design / Events / immersive / installation art / light / light art / new media art / sonic art / Sound
From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The result is an exhibition of work-in-progress, where the public is invited to take a look, participate and contribute.
Tags: ai / art / creative coding / design / hybrid / nature / philosophy / technology
Created by Random Studio in collaboration with Arnout Meijer and RWA Electronics, the project is comprised of a lighting system in Random’s studio that emulates the movement of the sun and the ever-evolving states of natural light.
Tags: 4DSOUND / Arnout Meijer / design / dmx / featured / interior / ligjting / office / random studio / simulation / sun / sunlight / temperature
Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in. Join us today by becoming a Member. Archive: More than 3,500 project profiles, scores of essays, interviews and reviews.Publish: Post your projects, events, announcements.No Ads: No advertisements, miners, banners.Education: Tutorials (beginners and advanced) with code examples, downloads.Jobs Archive: Find employers who have recruited here in the past…
Tags: Christoph Bader / construction / design / fabrication / featured / Felix Kraemer / Jean Disset / João Costa / mediated matter group / mit media lab / nature / Neri Oxman / Nitzan Zilberman / process / robotics / Sara Wilson / simulation / Sunanda Sharma / Susan Williams
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
Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series ‘Document #.’ examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.
Tags: aadrl / Andreas Gysin / art / can / can event / cci / creative computing institute / cross-disciplinary / design / document / Eva Rucki / Events / Gysin & Vanetti / London / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / Minimaforms / Revital Cohen / student / Theodore Spyropoulos / Troika / UAL
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 symposium, and takes place March 11th–13th at UAL’s Camberwell College of Art in London.
Tags: aadrl / Andreas Gysin / art / can / can event / cci / creative computing institute / cross-disciplinary / design / document / Eva Rucki / Events / Gysin & Vanetti / London / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / Minimaforms / Revital Cohen / student / Theodore Spyropoulos / Troika / UAL / workshop
Questioning our notions of wellbeing to develop innovative tools in the intersection of medical and social sciences, Giulia Tomasello investigates the potential of biotechnology and living materials, proposing a biological and sustainable alternative for electronic textiles and more.
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
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 N O R M A L S, “The Future Fishing Training Program” is a film about a speculative device and a programme designed to allow users and companies to discover glimpses of a desirable future through stories and artefacts.
Tags: AR / augmented reality / design / documentation / fiction / film / normals / object / project / speculation / systems / user guide / user interface / vr
Created by Matthieu Cherubini, Ethical Autonomous Vehicles project explores the implications of near-future scenario where most vehicles on the road are autonomous.
Tags: autonomous vehicles / car / design / driverless / driving / ethics / machine / Matthieu Cherubini / morals / near-future / simulation / speculative / system / unity
House of Shadow Silence is a VR experience by Portland-based software artist Jeremy Rotzstain. In it, the artist recreates Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler’s 1929 movie theatre the Film Guild Cinema and uses it to ‘build a world’ of light, geometry, and motion.
Tags: Ann Friedberg / architecture / design / film / Frederick Kiesler / Hans Richter / Jeremy Rotsztain / LowkeyNW / Max / MaxMSP / Modernism / oculus rift / OculusRiftCV1 / ofxRay / openFrameworks / opengl / vr
Developed at Strelka during the ‘The New Normal Program’ in 2017, ‘SHIFT’ (Arthur Röing Baer, Christian Lavista, Dmitry Alferov, Liza Dorrer) is a project that engages with stages of automation of the trucking industry in Russia, working with the socio-political, physical, and spatial particulars of logistics in the country’s vast territory.
Tags: Arthur Röing Baer / automatisation / autonomous vehicles / Christian Lavista / design / Dmitry Alferov / Liza Dorrer / roadmap / simulation / speculation / strelka / urbanity
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 lectures.
Tags: A-B-Z / Ali S. Qadeer / call for applications / Chris Lee / conference / design / event / graphic design / Lois Andison / masterclass / Michele Champagne / Mindy Seu / openFrameworks / symposium / toronto / typography / workshop / Xavier Snelgrove / Zach Lieberman
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
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
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
Created by Reza Ali, F3, [Form From Function], is a playful and powerful 3D design app that enables you to live code 3D form, rapidly iterate on its design, and export for 3D printing, rendering and animation. F3 uses signed distance functions (SDFs) to build forms – designing 3D forms using 2D image cross sections.
Created by Steffen Hartwig, On the Secret Life of Things is a series of experimental prototypes that explore the new and ubiquitous things of daily life. Using familiar objects, the objects are repurposed, limited to their original function/behaviour but re-imagined for the age of information.
Tags: behaviour / consumerism / design / electronics / featured / iot / mythology / object / reporpose / smart object / speculation / Steffen Hartwig / things
Continuing his exploration of personal objects in the age of information overload, Manual Reader and Memory Device are two new devices by Ishac Bertran that address perception, personal data collection and memory.
Tags: arduino / data / design / featured / interaction / Ishac Bertran / memory / object / perception / software / speculation
Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.
Tags: automato / design / device / featured / Matthieu Cherubini / network / object / politics / product / Saurabh Datta / Simone Rebaudengo / speculation
A P P A R E L is an augmented reality experimental fashion prototype by the Paris-based anticipatory design studio N O R M A L S. Turning data and network activity into identity and style, the project replaces the details of contemporary couture with jiggly mesh geometry digital overlays.
Tags: augmented reality / design / fashion / ios / Julien Gachadoat / normals / openFrameworks / science fiction / wearables
226 pages, 42 contributors, 22 features, HOLO 2 is ready to go to press: the magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology is back with another issue. Take a tour and order your copy at today.
Tags: art / artists / canlabs / Casey Reas / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Shiffman / design / featured / features / holo / holo2 / Jürg Lehni / Katie Paterson / magazine / Paul Prudence / print / projects / publication / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Ryoichi Kurokawa / science / Scott Smith / tale of tales / technology / Timo Arnall / Vera Molnar
Created by Eun Young Park, LINKKI is a kinetic construction toy based on planar linkage mechanism which allows users to design and prototype kinetic movements.
CAN and Swiss artist and designer Jürg Lehni will join an eclectic cast of international creators at this year’s OFFF MX (24 – 26 September) to “feed the future”.
Tags: abstract birds / abstractbirds / art / COCOLAB / DeFrame Collective / design / drawing machine / festival / fiber festival / field / fieldio / illustration / Ivan Abreu / Jürg Lehni / Mexico City / MoMA / offf / OFFF MX / paperjs / projection mapping / scriptographer / vvvv
Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through projected visions of alternative energies and flight.
Tags: aircraft / Counterfactual / design / design interaction / fiction / history / Innovation / project / rca di / royal college of art / speculation / technology / tim clark
Created by Adam W. Brown in collaboration with Robert Root-Bernstein, ReBioGeneSys – Origins of Life is an extreme minimal ecosystems theoretically capable of forming the self-organizing chemistries necessary to produce semi-living molecules and perhaps even protocells.
Tags: Adam W. Brown / bioart / biomimicry / chemistry / design / Environment / evolution / featured / Robert Root-Bernstein / simulation / synthetic biology / technology
Created by William Fairbrother, Alberto Ruiz Soler and Oliver Smith, ERIS—2000 is a fictional scientific instrument invented by cybernetician Erica Symms in 1971. The device was used to show and study, through a simplified simulation, the consequences of human decisions on complex systems.
Tags: Alberto Ruiz Soler / design / fiction / history / ios / MaxMSP / Oliver Smith / rca IED / Reference / speculation / William Fairbrother