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Serena Cangiano reviews “Perfect Behaviours – life redesigned by the algorithm” curated by Giorgio Olivero and on show in Turin, Italy’s OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni.
16/05/2023Sun Thinking is an online group show that brings together artists and writers to explore some of the themes and questions central to the Solar Protocol.
24/04/2023Heavens is a moving-image work and installation created using planetarium projection methods to overlay planetary footage with deep sea imagery, looking at deep space to see deep into the ocean.
10/04/2023Current 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.
13/03/2023Algae Chorus is a sound installation that collaborates with living algae, in real time, transforming their movement and photosynthesis process into sounds. The algae utilize the audience’s collective carbon exhalations within the exhibition space, revealing the mutual dependencies between humans and photosynthetic organisms.
13/02/2023‘Arche-Scriptures’ explores ceramics as a possible medium to store digital information. An artifact is found at a speculative archeological dig-site is being scanned by a decrypting machine, through which the visitor is invited to listen as the original audio data engraved onto the ceramics is slowly retrieved and sonified.
01/08/2022RE:PLACES is a complex 1.70-meter-high robotic apparatus that excretes the plastic objects and then deposits them around the exhibition space like three-dimensional brushstrokes.
14/07/2022Created by Dries Depoorter and currently exhibited at the New Media Gallery, ‘Seattle Crime Cams’ questions the sense of citizens responsibility in the age where technology has enabled us to participate globally.
22/02/2022The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) hosts an annual diploma exhibition KHM Open from 21st to 25th July 2021 in various locations in Cologne as well as online. In addition to diploma works, there are interventions in hybrid forms, led by students and seminars at KHM. “Netze Open” is an online exhibition platform by…
16/07/2021Created by Jürg Lehni for the collection of HeK – House of electronic Arts in Basel, ‘Four Transitions’ is an artwork about the passing of time. Together, four displays work in tandem to unveil the current time, with each unit taking one minute to compose one numeral, deploying visual compositions and choreographies that correspond to the nature and character of each technology.
30/06/2021In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
06/05/2021Created by Quiet Ensemble, ‘SOLE’ is a 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around the inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.
25/03/2021Spanning physical and virtual space, Peter Burr’s exhibition, Responsive Eye, examines contemporary life in the grid. Taking cues from minimalism and op art, the work pushes the limits of a viewer’s perception and awareness, thrusting them into that gap between what is seen and what is felt. In this interview by Daniel Glendening, Burr digs into history, things that are not there, and what it means to be fleshy bodies gathering in digital space.
13/03/2021Created by panGenerator, “Icons” is an exhibition exploring our shared cultural “imaginarium” of digital gestures, symbols, and artefacts, dragging them out onto a physical space, enabling audiences a direct, tactile confrontation and – also literally – a different visual perspective.
29/01/2021In 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.
08/11/2019Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, ‘Neo-Natur’ is a permanent installation for Berlin’s Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption.
30/09/2019For 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.
20/07/2018Review 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.
04/04/2018“Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design” is an exhibition that excavates the foundation of computer-aided design and manufacturing and weaves together several ‘origin stories’ for contemporary consideration. The show recently closed after a seven-week run at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and CAN was fortunate enough to get a guided tour with curator Daniel Cardoso Llach as it was winding down.
21/11/2017Created by Schnellebuntebilder, four installs now on display at the ZCOM Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, capture and celebrate the pioneering work of Konrad Zuse, famed German engineer and inventor whose biggest achievement, the 1941 Turing-complete programmable computer Z3, is regarded to be the world’s first of its kind.
06/11/2017The 2017 edition of Eastern Bloc’s Sight + Sound festival put ‘capital I’ innovation in its cross-hairs and pulled the trigger. We journeyed to Montreal to its flagship exhibition and assess its spectrum of ‘non-compliant futures.’
01/11/2017Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
15/05/2017Created by Sebastian Schmieg, ‘Decision Space’ explores how new datasets can enable new experiments in teaching computers how to understand images within a set of meaningful and complex categories.
27/01/2017Created 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.
28/10/2016Delving into the glorious ambiguity of human communication, “TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)” is a group exhibition at Oakland’s B4BEL4B Gallery that explores text and language.
12/09/2016Riffing on the idealism (and the dark underbelly) of modernist design, The House in the Sky is a recent installation by by Sascha Pohflepp and Chris Woebken exploring the limits of science, thought, and human perception.
05/08/2016Taking place at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima between 17 March – 19 June, New Realities is a touring exhibition curated and produced by Alpha-ville which explores how the phenomenal pace of technological advancement is changing the way we perceive ourselves and our world.
14/06/2016The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts has been active in San Francisco for a decade. On the eve of the second edition of their eponymous festival, CAN chats with the Gray Area team about their ongoing educational and programming initiatives.
13/04/2016Currently on show at Berlin’s NOME Gallery is the latest work by Nils Völker titled Bits And Pieces. The installation consists out of 108 mass-produced toy spheres hanging in the middle of the exhibition space, individually addressable and controlled, to create organic waves that appear to move throughout the space.
06/04/2016New solo exhibition by Ryoichi Kurokawa featuring the stunning ‘constrained surface’ and the ‘unfold’, new project exploring data taken from giant molecular clouds in space through beautifully visual and sonic environments that showcase the birth of stars.
25/03/2016Serena Cangiano reviews “Perfect Behaviours – life redesigned by the algorithm” curated by Giorgio Olivero and on show in Turin, Italy’s OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni.
Tags: algorithm / artificial intelligence / behaviour / censorship / computation / control / deep learning / digital art / emergence / exhibition / generative art / installation / interaction design / machine / media / research / simulation / software / surveillance / Uncanny Valley
Sun Thinking is an online group show that brings together artists and writers to explore some of the themes and questions central to the Solar Protocol.
Tags: commission / computation / exhibition / intelligence / network / project / software / sun
Heavens is a moving-image work and installation created using planetarium projection methods to overlay planetary footage with deep sea imagery, looking at deep space to see deep into the ocean.
Tags: biology / Cohen Van Balen / cosmic / exhibition / history / installation / James Bridle / perception / projection / Sound / Theory / virus
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.
Algae Chorus is a sound installation that collaborates with living algae, in real time, transforming their movement and photosynthesis process into sounds. The algae utilize the audience’s collective carbon exhalations within the exhibition space, revealing the mutual dependencies between humans and photosynthetic organisms.
Tags: art / bacteria / distance sensor / exhibition / GAN / growth / installation / light sensor / performance / Processing / Raspberry Pi / sound installation
‘Arche-Scriptures’ explores ceramics as a possible medium to store digital information. An artifact is found at a speculative archeological dig-site is being scanned by a decrypting machine, through which the visitor is invited to listen as the original audio data engraved onto the ceramics is slowly retrieved and sonified.
Tags: archive / browser / exhibition / future / HfK Bremen / history / opencv / Processing / scan / sonification / speculative
RE:PLACES is a complex 1.70-meter-high robotic apparatus that excretes the plastic objects and then deposits them around the exhibition space like three-dimensional brushstrokes.
Tags: 3d printing / arduino / Carolin Liebl / exhibition / microcontroller / Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler / plastic / process / robotics / sculpture / teensy++
Created by Dries Depoorter and currently exhibited at the New Media Gallery, ‘Seattle Crime Cams’ questions the sense of citizens responsibility in the age where technology has enabled us to participate globally.
Tags: cctv / citizen / disaster tourism / Dries Depoorter / exhibition / installation / privacy / Raspberry Pi
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) hosts an annual diploma exhibition KHM Open from 21st to 25th July 2021 in various locations in Cologne as well as online. In addition to diploma works, there are interventions in hybrid forms, led by students and seminars at KHM. “Netze Open” is an online exhibition platform by…
Created by Jürg Lehni for the collection of HeK – House of electronic Arts in Basel, ‘Four Transitions’ is an artwork about the passing of time. Together, four displays work in tandem to unveil the current time, with each unit taking one minute to compose one numeral, deploying visual compositions and choreographies that correspond to the nature and character of each technology.
Tags: custom / diy / exhibition / flipdot / HeK / installation / Jurg Lehni / lcd / paperjs / raspberrypi / tft
In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
Tags: Daito Manabe / Elevenplay / Events / exhibition / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / online / performance / review / rhizomatiks
Created by Quiet Ensemble, ‘SOLE’ is a 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around the inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.
Tags: alternate reality / Brightsign / Environment / exhibition / installation / madmapper / projection mapping / quiet ensamble / shadow / simulation / Sound / sun
Spanning physical and virtual space, Peter Burr’s exhibition, Responsive Eye, examines contemporary life in the grid. Taking cues from minimalism and op art, the work pushes the limits of a viewer’s perception and awareness, thrusting them into that gap between what is seen and what is felt. In this interview by Daniel Glendening, Burr digs into history, things that are not there, and what it means to be fleshy bodies gathering in digital space.
Tags: body / digital art / exhibition / game / geometry / isolation / online / op art / painting / pandemic / perception / Peter Burr / technology / virtual
Created by panGenerator, “Icons” is an exhibition exploring our shared cultural “imaginarium” of digital gestures, symbols, and artefacts, dragging them out onto a physical space, enabling audiences a direct, tactile confrontation and – also literally – a different visual perspective.
Tags: 3d printing / arduino / black gravel / C / camera / Events / exhibition / interaction / Interface / javascript / led / led strips / Mac / neural network / nintendo / nodejs / nokia / panGenerator / Plywood / Processing / projection mapping / projector / Raspberry Pi / servo / solenoid / Thermal printer
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
Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, ‘Neo-Natur’ is a permanent installation for Berlin’s Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption.
Tags: ARTCOM / ArtEngineering / augmented reality / berlin / biomimicry / CNC / danzer / exhibition / featured / generative / hololens / space / tile
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
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.
Tags: ACT / ACT Festival / Asia Culture Center / Daito Manabe / data / database / Digital / Evala / Events / exhibition / featured / Gwangju / Harshit Agrawal / information / Jeon Joonho / Jonas Jongejan / Kazunao Abe / knowledge / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / learning / making / Marko Peljhan / Matthew Biederman / Moon Kyungwon / Pierce Warnecke / privacy / review / Ryoji Suzuki / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sang-won Leigh / Satoshi Furuya / security / Sho Miyake / south korea / technology / Tomas Saraceno / visualization
“Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design” is an exhibition that excavates the foundation of computer-aided design and manufacturing and weaves together several ‘origin stories’ for contemporary consideration. The show recently closed after a seven-week run at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and CAN was fortunate enough to get a guided tour with curator Daniel Cardoso Llach as it was winding down.
Tags: Andrew Heumann / BiarBalliet / CAD / CAM / Cambridge University CAD Group / Carl Lostritto / Carnegie Mellon / Charles Eastman / Dana Cupkova / Daniel Cardoso Llach / darpa / exhibition / Generative Design / geometry / George Stiny / Golan Levin / Ivan Sutherland / Joseph Choma / Jürg Lehni / Ken Knowlton / Lillian Schwartz / Miller Gallery / mit / MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory / Paul Pagnaro / Philip Steadman / Pittsburgh / review / Scott Donaldson / Sketchpad / software / Steven A. Coons / The Computer History Museum / Zach Lieberman
Created by Schnellebuntebilder, four installs now on display at the ZCOM Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, capture and celebrate the pioneering work of Konrad Zuse, famed German engineer and inventor whose biggest achievement, the 1941 Turing-complete programmable computer Z3, is regarded to be the world’s first of its kind.
Tags: aftereffects / cinema4d / computation / computing / exhibition / featured / history / installation / Klingklangklong / Konrad Zuse / museum / visualization / Zuse Computer Museum
The 2017 edition of Eastern Bloc’s Sight + Sound festival put ‘capital I’ innovation in its cross-hairs and pulled the trigger. We journeyed to Montreal to its flagship exhibition and assess its spectrum of ‘non-compliant futures.’
Tags: 3d printing / Aliens in Green / Audrey Samson / Daniel Rourke / Dardex / disnoavation.org / Eastern Bloc / Ernesto Oroza / exhibition / exonemo / festival / Gwenola Wagon / James Bridle / montreal / Morehshin Allahyari / never apart / Peter Moosgaard / review / sight & sound / speculative design / Stéphane Degoutin / Thomas Bégin
Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
Tags: Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery / CGI / Columbia GSAPP / drone / exhibition / featured / film / Liam Young / lidar / politics / rendering / review / surveillance / Tim Maughan
Created by Sebastian Schmieg, ‘Decision Space’ explores how new datasets can enable new experiments in teaching computers how to understand images within a set of meaningful and complex categories.
Tags: ai / artificial intelligence / creativeappsnet / crowdsourcing / dataset / exhibition / javascript / machine learning / photography / process / Sebastian Schmieg / Tensorflow
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
Delving into the glorious ambiguity of human communication, “TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)” is a group exhibition at Oakland’s B4BEL4B Gallery that explores text and language.
Tags: B4BEL4B Gallery / Benedikt Groß / exhibition / Gelare Khoshgozaran / installation / Joanna Cheung / Joey Lee / Jono Brandel / Lauren McCarthy / Matthias Dörfelt / Min Choi / Mindy Seu / Morehshin Allahyari / oakland / Tim Roseborough
Riffing on the idealism (and the dark underbelly) of modernist design, The House in the Sky is a recent installation by by Sascha Pohflepp and Chris Woebken exploring the limits of science, thought, and human perception.
Tags: brooklyn / Chris Woebken / documentary / exhibition / installation / new york / Pioneer Works / RAND / Sascha Pohflepp
Taking place at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima between 17 March – 19 June, New Realities is a touring exhibition curated and produced by Alpha-ville which explores how the phenomenal pace of technological advancement is changing the way we perceive ourselves and our world.
Tags: Alpha-ville / Carmen Salas / Estela Oliva / Events / exhibition / guest post / Lima / review / Telefónica
The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts has been active in San Francisco for a decade. On the eve of the second edition of their eponymous festival, CAN chats with the Gray Area team about their ongoing educational and programming initiatives.
Tags: Anna Ploegh / Barry Threw / Chris Delbuck / education / exhibition / featured / festival / Gray Area / Gray Area Festival / interview / Matt Ganucheau / performance / San Francisco
Currently on show at Berlin’s NOME Gallery is the latest work by Nils Völker titled Bits And Pieces. The installation consists out of 108 mass-produced toy spheres hanging in the middle of the exhibition space, individually addressable and controlled, to create organic waves that appear to move throughout the space.
Tags: arduino / berlin / Events / exhibition / installation / landscape / mass-produed / Nils Völker / NOME / object / servo
New solo exhibition by Ryoichi Kurokawa featuring the stunning ‘constrained surface’ and the ‘unfold’, new project exploring data taken from giant molecular clouds in space through beautifully visual and sonic environments that showcase the birth of stars.
Tags: Events / exhibition / FACT / installation / liverpool / representation / Ryoichi Kurokawa / solo / Sound / space / visualization