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Current students at UAL Creative Computing Institute on the MSc Creative Computing course, have design and curated an exhibition inspired by the words of english poet William Blake.
13/03/2023Between October 6th and 9th 2022, the 11th edition of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival will be held in Krakow.
07/09/2022Created by Playmodes, ‘FORMS – String Quartet’ is a live multimedia performance for a string quartet, electronic music and panoramic visuals, in the field of visual sonification. The project originates from a real-time visual music score generator created by Playmodes, that is designed with a set of rules using graphic generation, driven by randomness and probability.
24/05/2021In October CAN headed to Pittsburgh to toast the 30th Anniversary of The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. The event was accompanied by “Intersections,” a dynamic group exhibition showcasing many of the anti-disiciplinary works produced within the labs. Here, we review the show and share details about various included works.
08/11/2019From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
07/05/2019For the 7th time now, 600 experience designers and creative technologists will join us this October in Munich to take a close look at all things interactive. As always, we’ll not just feature talks and workshops but also a hands-on exhibition showcasing interactive projects from graduates and design studios all the way to companies like Bosch and BMW.
20/07/2018It was just three weeks ago we were in Montréal for the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, MUTEK’s forum on digital creation. Invited to contribute to its symposium, we curated five panels. In this post-festival report, we share some highlights.
04/05/2018Artificial Imagination was a symposium organized by Ottawa’s Artengine this past winter that invited a group of artists to discuss the state of AI in the arts and culture. CAN was on hand to take in the proceedings, and given the emergence of documentation, we share videos and a brief report.
01/05/2018On April 11–13th MUTEK Montréal presents the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, their offshoot festival focused on digital creation. CAN/HOLO was invited to curate five panels within this year’s program, that bring together leading artists and thinkers to consider pressing aesthetic and sociopolitical questions.
08/03/2018The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 18th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be hosting ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.
01/08/2017A-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.
28/06/2017Unhanded was a symposium about ‘making under the influence of digitalism’ that took place in Ottawa last September. CAN was on hand to facilitate one of the discussions, and to mark the publication of the videos online we offer some highlights and thoughts on the proceedings.
22/03/2017Created and Directed by Anita Fontaine and Geoffrey Lillemon with W+K Amsterdam, Bitmap Banshees is a VR experience set inside a dystopian Amsterdam, where a gang of biker banshees have taken over the city and are out to get you.
28/10/2016Registration for A-B-Z-TXT, the ‘school for 21st century typography’ we are collaborating to present in Toronto this August is now open. Join us for four days of masterclasses (with LUSTlab and N O R M A L S), workshops, and incisive lectures and discussion!
06/07/2016In December 2015, SFPC were invited to participate at Day for Night festival in Houston, TX. SFPC co-founder Zach Lieberman, students from the fall 2015 session, and the larger SFPC community worked together to create ‘SFPC re-coded’, a project that presented over 50 animations from more than 30 different contributors.
28/06/2016CAN reports on MUTEK 2015’s audiovisual performance programming and the ‘HOLO encounters’ live Q&A’s we did with artists Robin Fox and Hiroaki Umeda.
11/06/2015Convergence Summit, a four day conference “on art + technology” that took place at the Banff Centre Nov 27-29th. Located in the idyllic mountain-surrounded town of Banff, Alberta, the massive arts incubator played a important role in shaping discourse in and around ‘new media’ in the 90s and early aughties. With Convergence, the centre is planting a flag down and reasserting their importance as a key international digital arts venue—here is CAN’s report on the proceedings.
08/12/2014Last week the prolific Toronto-based tech event organizer FITC hosted a daylong summit on wearable technology. With a lineup bookended by ‘the father of wearable computing’ Steve Mann and Social Body Lab founder Kate Hartman, the invited speakers offered a range of opinions on ‘what’s next for wearables?’ for an audience of curious developers.
20/11/2014Illusive rear-projections, flickering moirés, fluorescent puzzle boxes: opening this Friday, November 21st, at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City is ‘Bright Matter’, a dazzling group show that’ll bend, warp and (if only briefly) break the way we see.
18/11/2014Seven years in the running, organised by Rhizomatiks and curated by Daito Manabe, Flying Tokyo goes Super with a new space and larger audience, more speakers and a workshop programme. CAN was there and we are pleased to report back.
04/03/2014The installation consist of moving lights that continuously illuminate space from different angles creating an intersections of form, perspective and shadow. In almost pure darkness the visitor is invited to explore the derelict space as details are illuminated and space reshaped.
29/11/2013Competition submission by Moscow based collective Stain, renders the building as a wireframe, revealing colour which eventually deflects of its structure, slowly turning into a recursion of its structural elements.
10/10/2013On September 26th the Vienna Tourist Board will be hosting an event where Alex Kiessling is creating artworks not only in Vienna, but simultaneously in Berlin and London with the help of 2 industrial robots.
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01/07/2011Current students at UAL Creative Computing Institute on the MSc Creative Computing course, have design and curated an exhibition inspired by the words of english poet William Blake.
Between October 6th and 9th 2022, the 11th edition of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival will be held in Krakow.
Created by Playmodes, ‘FORMS – String Quartet’ is a live multimedia performance for a string quartet, electronic music and panoramic visuals, in the field of visual sonification. The project originates from a real-time visual music score generator created by Playmodes, that is designed with a set of rules using graphic generation, driven by randomness and probability.
Tags: event / instruments / interpretation / MaxMSP / playmodes / probability / Processing / projection / randomness / sonification / Sound / sound engine / visualization
In October CAN headed to Pittsburgh to toast the 30th Anniversary of The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. The event was accompanied by “Intersections,” a dynamic group exhibition showcasing many of the anti-disiciplinary works produced within the labs. Here, we review the show and share details about various included works.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / andy warhol / Claire Hentschker / CMU / cory arcangel / event / exhibition / featured / Golan Levin / james george / Jon Rubin / Jonathan Minard / Madeline Gannon / media lab / Miller Gallery / moon / Pablo Garcia / Pittsburgh / review / Tahir Hemphill / The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
From the inventions of computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to the philosophies of Andy Clark and David Chalmers: curator Philo van Kemenade reveals what inspired the 2019 edition of Bratislava’s Sensorium Festival (June 7-9)
Tags: artificial intelligence / Augmented Creativity / Bratislava / Cod.Act / Cognitive Science / Douglas Engelbart / Embodied Cognition / event / festival / Human Computer Interaction / Intelligence Augmentation / Kimchi and Chips / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / memo akten / rulr / Sensorium / Slovakia / Stefanie Posavec
For the 7th time now, 600 experience designers and creative technologists will join us this October in Munich to take a close look at all things interactive. As always, we’ll not just feature talks and workshops but also a hands-on exhibition showcasing interactive projects from graduates and design studios all the way to companies like Bosch and BMW.
Tags: algorithm / animation / data visualization / digital product design / event / exhibition / google / munich / push conference / ui
It was just three weeks ago we were in Montréal for the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, MUTEK’s forum on digital creation. Invited to contribute to its symposium, we curated five panels. In this post-festival report, we share some highlights.
Tags: Alan Warburton / Andre Baynes / Chiedza Pasipanodya / conferernce / Daily tous les jours / Eastern Bloc / Elevenplay / Erandy Vergara / event / Liam Young / Madeline Gannon / montreal / MUTEK / MUTEK_IMG / Nathalie Bachand / phi centre / Regine Debatty / rhizomatiks / Ryan Stec / RYBN.org / sam lavigne / symposium / Tega Brain / Tim Maughan / vr
Artificial Imagination was a symposium organized by Ottawa’s Artengine this past winter that invited a group of artists to discuss the state of AI in the arts and culture. CAN was on hand to take in the proceedings, and given the emergence of documentation, we share videos and a brief report.
Tags: ai / Allison Parrish / artengine / artificial intelligence / Ben Bogart / Chris Salter / consciousness / event / Jackson 2Bears / Kristen Anne Carlson / machine learning / Nell Tenhaaf / Nora O Morchú / Ottawa / philosophy / Sofian Audrey / Theory / video
On April 11–13th MUTEK Montréal presents the 4th edition of MUTEK_IMG, their offshoot festival focused on digital creation. CAN/HOLO was invited to curate five panels within this year’s program, that bring together leading artists and thinkers to consider pressing aesthetic and sociopolitical questions.
Tags: Alan Warburton / Andre Baynes / can event / Chiedza Pasipanodya / conference / Daily tous les jours / Daito Manabe / Daniel Avery / Elevenplay / Erandy Vergara / Erin Gee / event / Isabelle Van Grimde / Liam Young / Madeline Gannon / MAPP_MTL / Marika Dermineur / montreal / Mouna Andraos / MUTEK / MUTEK_IMG / Nathalie Bachand / Patrick Saint-Denis / phi centre / Regine Debatty / rhizomatiks / Ryan Stec / sam lavigne / Tega Brain / Tim Maughan / Tori Foster
The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 18th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be hosting ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.
Tags: artificiel / audiovisual / bfi / deathprod / Eastern Bloc / electronic music / event / festival / Glenn Vervliet / Herman Kolgen / interview / Jimmy Lakatos / Maotik / Michela Pelusio / monolake / montreal / Murcof / MUTEK / Myriam Bleau / sculpture / Sensate FOcus
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
Unhanded was a symposium about ‘making under the influence of digitalism’ that took place in Ottawa last September. CAN was on hand to facilitate one of the discussions, and to mark the publication of the videos online we offer some highlights and thoughts on the proceedings.
Tags: 3d printing / artengine / autodesk / conference / craft / critical making / Digital Fabrication / event / featured / Garnet Hertz / Greg Sims / James Hayes / Joanna Berzowska / make / Maker Faire / making / Ottawa / Rachel Gotlieb / Sandra Alfoldy / Sarah Brin / Steven Loft / symposium / Tom Bessai / Valerie Lamontagne / wearable
Created and Directed by Anita Fontaine and Geoffrey Lillemon with W+K Amsterdam, Bitmap Banshees is a VR experience set inside a dystopian Amsterdam, where a gang of biker banshees have taken over the city and are out to get you.
Tags: Anita Fontaine / arduino / bitmap / event / exhibition / Geoffrey Lillemon / unreal / virtual reality / vr / W+K Amsterdam
Registration for A-B-Z-TXT, the ‘school for 21st century typography’ we are collaborating to present in Toronto this August is now open. Join us for four days of masterclasses (with LUSTlab and N O R M A L S), workshops, and incisive lectures and discussion!
Tags: A-B-Z / Alana Johns / Ali Shamas Qadeer / event / font / InterAccess / Lauren Wickware / LUST / lustlab / normals / Patrick Pittman / Sean Yendrys / Steph Davidson / toronto / Tracy Ma / type / typography
In December 2015, SFPC were invited to participate at Day for Night festival in Houston, TX. SFPC co-founder Zach Lieberman, students from the fall 2015 session, and the larger SFPC community worked together to create ‘SFPC re-coded’, a project that presented over 50 animations from more than 30 different contributors.
Tags: code / Day For Night / event / Events / learning / openFrameworks / Processing / re-code / SFPC
CAN reports on MUTEK 2015’s audiovisual performance programming and the ‘HOLO encounters’ live Q&A’s we did with artists Robin Fox and Hiroaki Umeda.
Tags: audiovisual / dance / event / festival / Hiroaki Umeda / laser / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / MUTEK / phi centre / report / Robin Fox / Uwe Schmidt
Convergence Summit, a four day conference “on art + technology” that took place at the Banff Centre Nov 27-29th. Located in the idyllic mountain-surrounded town of Banff, Alberta, the massive arts incubator played a important role in shaping discourse in and around ‘new media’ in the 90s and early aughties. With Convergence, the centre is planting a flag down and reasserting their importance as a key international digital arts venue—here is CAN’s report on the proceedings.
Tags: Antoine Bedard / Chris Salter / Cindy Poeremba / Clea Minaker / Conrad Bodman / event / FACT / Hiroaki Umeda / Kondition Pluriel / Michael Naimark / Mike Stubbs / Robin Fox / The Banff Centre
Last week the prolific Toronto-based tech event organizer FITC hosted a daylong summit on wearable technology. With a lineup bookended by ‘the father of wearable computing’ Steve Mann and Social Body Lab founder Kate Hartman, the invited speakers offered a range of opinions on ‘what’s next for wearables?’ for an audience of curious developers.
Tags: event / FITC / gesture / interaction design / Kate Hartman / Steve Mann / toronto / wearable
Illusive rear-projections, flickering moirés, fluorescent puzzle boxes: opening this Friday, November 21st, at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City is ‘Bright Matter’, a dazzling group show that’ll bend, warp and (if only briefly) break the way we see.
Tags: 1024 Architecture / Bright Matter / creative engineering / event / Events / exhibition / fluorescent / gallery / installation / Joanie Lemercier / Juliette Bibasse / kinetic / labau / light / memory alloy / Muriel Guépin Gallery / new york / Nonotak / Numen For Use / object / projection mapping / research
Seven years in the running, organised by Rhizomatiks and curated by Daito Manabe, Flying Tokyo goes Super with a new space and larger audience, more speakers and a workshop programme. CAN was there and we are pleased to report back.
Tags: art / Daito Manabe / event / installation / people / report / rhizomatiks / technology / tokyo / workshops
The installation consist of moving lights that continuously illuminate space from different angles creating an intersections of form, perspective and shadow. In almost pure darkness the visitor is invited to explore the derelict space as details are illuminated and space reshaped.
Tags: derelict / event / form / HC Gilje / installation / LIAF / LIAF 2013 / light / moving light / perspective
Competition submission by Moscow based collective Stain, renders the building as a wireframe, revealing colour which eventually deflects of its structure, slowly turning into a recursion of its structural elements.
Tags: circle of light / competition / event / moscow / projection / projection mapping / submission / theme / vvvv
On September 26th the Vienna Tourist Board will be hosting an event where Alex Kiessling is creating artworks not only in Vienna, but simultaneously in Berlin and London with the help of 2 industrial robots.
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