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Created by Saurabh Datta, ‘mi/e-metic self’ is an installation that represents a sculptural being, a memetic representation of an evolved us.
06/01/2021Created by Matteo Zamagni, this video speculates the shift from organic to electronic evolutionary processes. Cybernetic organisms, partly made of organic structures and part electronic components respond to their environment in a variety of ways at an ever-increasing speed.
19/11/2020‘Invisible Network’ is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it maintains with its personal environment.
20/10/2020Created by Vienna based Depart, ‘The Entropy Gardens’ is an explorative VR experience that challenges one of humanity’s most archetypical art forms – garden making. It explores its myths, aesthetics and modes of perception.
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10/08/2020Created 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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29/06/2020An exploratory project into networks’ ability to guide movement through physical space – the name concatenates three popular digital services which perform acts of choreography on a mass scale.
21/04/2020A collaboration between Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks) and Kenichiro Shimizu (PELE) for Kazu Makino, ‘Come Behind Me, So Good!’ music video combines photogrammetry and mixed reality to create a seamless dream-like landscape, invigorated by Elevenplay performance.
17/04/2020Created by Kynd in collaboration with Yu Miyashita (Sound), ‘Expressions’ is a series of artworks exploring the physicality of thick and bold paint-like dynamic constructs that emerge from illuminated digital space revealing an intricate play of shapes, light and shadow.
15/04/2020Created by LIMAGE, a collective comprised of media designers, 3d creators, artists and coders, ‘Avatar·Mythology’ is a performance drawing on the worldview of Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), a Chinese classic text of mythic geography and beasts.
25/03/2020In November 2019, CAN joined the biannual ECAL Research Day to find out how methodologies borrowed from science and engineering can strengthen creative practice—and drive the conversation.
14/02/2020Created by Michael Sedbon, ‘CMD’ is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented in the design of automated infrastructures and algorithms.
15/01/2020SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
14/01/2020As per tradition each year, December is when we look back at the amazing work published on CAN. From ingenious machines and installations to mesmerising experiences that leverage new mediums for artistic inquiry – we added scores of projects to CAN’s archive in 2019. Here are some highlights.
23/12/2019In 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.
08/11/2019Created by Mathias Maierhofer and Valentina Soana at the ICD, ‘Self-Choreographing Network’ is a project aiming to challenge the prevalent separation between (digital) design and (physical) operation processes of adaptive and interactive architectural systems.
11/10/2019TAMI (Tangible Mathematics Interface) is an interface that facilitates the learning of the basics of trigonometry. Comprised of a tabletop display and a series of physical controllers, users can manipulate mathematical parameters and see the results on-screen in real-time.
11/10/2019Created by Anouk Zibault at ECAL, ‘Lieux Ordinaires’ (Ordinary Places) is a project that explores new narratives of public space framed by surveillance – an alternative perspective and a medium with a power to ‘document’.
10/10/2019Designed 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.
30/09/2019Created by Richard Vijgen, ‘Hertzian Landscapes’ is a live visualization of the radio spectrum. It includes a digital receiver to scan large swaths of radio spectrum in near real-time and using Three.js visualises thousands of signals into a panoramic electromagnetic landscape.
27/09/2019Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, ‘Artificial Arcadia’ is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape entangles natural, artificial and digital realms.
29/08/2019‘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.
20/08/2019Created by Christian Mio Loclair (Waltz Binaire), ‘Blackberry Winter’ is an investigation into the possibilities of identify motion as a continuous walk in a latent space of situations.
10/07/2019SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
21/06/2019Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, ‘BIY™ – Believe it Yourself’ is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions.
13/06/2019This past March, CAN 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., the event was comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposium, and took place at UAL’s newly refurbished Camberwell College of Art in London.
23/05/2019HALO is a large scale immersive artwork which embodies Semiconductor’s ongoing fascination with how we experience the materiality of nature through the lens of science and technology.
01/05/2019Learn how to prototype post-screen interfaces, examine network infrastructures, hack museums, and transplant scents with leading artists, designers, and researchers at this year’s Mapping Festival.
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23/01/2019Created by Saurabh Datta, ‘mi/e-metic self’ is an installation that represents a sculptural being, a memetic representation of an evolved us.
Tags: ai / arduino / camera / custom BIOS / DeepAI / featured / Giphy API / MQTT / NFS / Processing / python / Raspberry Pi / Saurabh Datta / shell scripts
Created by Matteo Zamagni, this video speculates the shift from organic to electronic evolutionary processes. Cybernetic organisms, partly made of organic structures and part electronic components respond to their environment in a variety of ways at an ever-increasing speed.
Tags: ableton / featured / Matteo Zamagni / organic / osc / performance / simulation / sound re / touchdesigner / unreal
‘Invisible Network’ is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it maintains with its personal environment.
Tags: arduino / data / ecal / Environment / epaper / Evan Kelly / featured / Firebase / google maps api / gyrOSC / infrastructure / machine culture / network / privacy / social network / visible / wifi
Created by Vienna based Depart, ‘The Entropy Gardens’ is an explorative VR experience that challenges one of humanity’s most archetypical art forms – garden making. It explores its myths, aesthetics and modes of perception.
Tags: DEPART / featured / Gregor Ladenhauf / interactive / Leonhard Lass / performance / virtual
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Tags: arduino / computation / device / drawing / featured / media / Nathalie Gebert / servo / Situated Knowledges / textile
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
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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
An exploratory project into networks’ ability to guide movement through physical space – the name concatenates three popular digital services which perform acts of choreography on a mass scale.
Tags: Andrea Pena / choreography / featured / Jonathan Chomko / movement / nodejs / performance / physical / socketio
A collaboration between Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks) and Kenichiro Shimizu (PELE) for Kazu Makino, ‘Come Behind Me, So Good!’ music video combines photogrammetry and mixed reality to create a seamless dream-like landscape, invigorated by Elevenplay performance.
Tags: cg / Daito Manabe / Elevenplay / featured / houdini / Kazu Makino / Kenichiro Shimizu / landscape / lidar / mixed reality / music / performance / Photogrammetry / point cloud / rhizomatiks / scan
Created by Kynd in collaboration with Yu Miyashita (Sound), ‘Expressions’ is a series of artworks exploring the physicality of thick and bold paint-like dynamic constructs that emerge from illuminated digital space revealing an intricate play of shapes, light and shadow.
Tags: dong gallery / facade / featured / glsl / Kynd / paint / Sound / touchdesigner / webgl
Created by LIMAGE, a collective comprised of media designers, 3d creators, artists and coders, ‘Avatar·Mythology’ is a performance drawing on the worldview of Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), a Chinese classic text of mythic geography and beasts.
Tags: 3d animation / drawing / featured / kinect / maya / openFrameworks / projction / projectors / Resolume / touchosc / unity
In November 2019, CAN joined the biannual ECAL Research Day to find out how methodologies borrowed from science and engineering can strengthen creative practice—and drive the conversation.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / ai / Ala Tannir / Alan Warburton / artificial intelligence / Bianca Berning / Bianca Berning (Dalton Maag) / Cathy O’Neil / Christian Kaegi (Qwestion) / Christian Mio Loclair (Waltz Binaire) / cloud computing / Davide Fornari / Dev Joshi / ecal / ECAL Research Day / EPFL+ECAL Lab / Fabrice Aeberhard (Viu) / featured / ghosts / Haunted Machines / Hugues Vinet (IRCAM) / Impakt Festival / IRCAM / James Bridle / Kai Bernau / Kate Crawford / machine learning / Mario de Vega / Matthew Plummer-Fernandez / max bense / Natalie D Kane / Natalie Kane / Neri Oxman / Nicolas Henchoz / Nicolas Nova / Patrick Keller / Random International / skylar tibbits / sustainability / Thilo Alex Brunner / Tobias Revell / v&a / Waltz Binaire
Created by Michael Sedbon, ‘CMD’ is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented in the design of automated infrastructures and algorithms.
Tags: Alexander Lambertz / bioart / biology / Cyanobacteria / eco / ecosystem / ecosystem survival / featured / genetic algorithm / hybrid forms lab / Maker Bay Hong Kong / Manu Alfonso Soler / Mees Dieperink / Michael Sedbon / MU / MU Artspace / MU Hybrid Art House / touchdesigner
SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
Tags: Alexander Miller / Allison Chan / arduino / capacitive sensor / Celine Wong Katzman / Che-Wei Wang / ChucK / Danny Garfield / DTrace / education / Esther Bouquet / featured / Fernando Ramallo / FIlip Wolak / Francisco Rojo / Galen Macdonald / Gia Castello / glsl / Hall Effect sensors / Iain Nash / incandescent lightbulbs / Katherine Rae Diemert / Lauren Gardner / lcd / LED strip / Lia Coleman / Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy / Markov Chain / Mathilde Mouw-Rao / matrix display / Max Bittker / Maxwell Neely-Cohen / Melanie Hoff / Natalie Rothfels / Olivia Ross / openFrameworks / Photogrammetry / photoresistor / python / Raspberry Pi / receipt printer / Rhinoceros / Sebastian Morales / servo / SFPC / Shelby Wilson / Stefan Pelikan / Taeyoon Choi / Taylor Levy / thermochromic pigment / Tiriree Kananuruk / Todd Anderson / Tsige Tafesse / unity / Yuzhu Chai / Zach Lieberman / Zai Aliyu
As per tradition each year, December is when we look back at the amazing work published on CAN. From ingenious machines and installations to mesmerising experiences that leverage new mediums for artistic inquiry – we added scores of projects to CAN’s archive in 2019. Here are some highlights.
Tags: Akshat Prakash / Anouk Zibault / automato / Bjørn Karmann / featured / features / fragmentin / François Quévillon / Harsh Kedia / Jacqueline Wu / Mapping Festival / Mathias Maierhofer / mediated matter group / Michael Sedbon / moovel / MUTEK / radical norms / Richard Vijgen / rndr / Semiconductor / Soonho Kwon / Tore Knudsen / UAL / Valentina Soana / Waltz Binaire
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
Created by Mathias Maierhofer and Valentina Soana at the ICD, ‘Self-Choreographing Network’ is a project aiming to challenge the prevalent separation between (digital) design and (physical) operation processes of adaptive and interactive architectural systems.
Tags: architecture / arduino / computational design / Environment / featured / icd / Mathias Maierhofer / Processing / space / Valentina Soana
TAMI (Tangible Mathematics Interface) is an interface that facilitates the learning of the basics of trigonometry. Comprised of a tabletop display and a series of physical controllers, users can manipulate mathematical parameters and see the results on-screen in real-time.
Tags: arduino / featured / Francisco Fuentes / Joaquin Dominguez / Maria Elena Errazuriz / Mauricio Herrera / Raspberry Pi / trigonometry
Created by Anouk Zibault at ECAL, ‘Lieux Ordinaires’ (Ordinary Places) is a project that explores new narratives of public space framed by surveillance – an alternative perspective and a medium with a power to ‘document’.
Tags: Anouk Zibaut / ecal / featured / film / javascript / narrative / process / public space / story / surveillance
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
Created by Richard Vijgen, ‘Hertzian Landscapes’ is a live visualization of the radio spectrum. It includes a digital receiver to scan large swaths of radio spectrum in near real-time and using Three.js visualises thousands of signals into a panoramic electromagnetic landscape.
Tags: drawing / featured / glsl / HackRF / landscape / mapping / nodejs / NuiTrack / point cloud / realsense / Richard Vijgen / space
Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, ‘Artificial Arcadia’ is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape entangles natural, artificial and digital realms.
Tags: arduino / Environment / featured / fragmentin / ice / kosmos architects / landscape / lcd / modulation / nature / visualization
‘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
Created by Christian Mio Loclair (Waltz Binaire), ‘Blackberry Winter’ is an investigation into the possibilities of identify motion as a continuous walk in a latent space of situations.
Tags: Christian Mio Loclair / featured / GAN / houdini / javascript / machine learning / openFrameworks / PyTorch / raygan / Tensorflow / vvvv
SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
Tags: 3-5954A handheld transceiver / acrylic / Alexander Miller / Apple computer / arduino / Ariel Uzal / AxiDraw / Bomani Oseni McClendon / c++ / Cardioid microphone / Celine Wong Katzman / cellular automata / Cement / digital camera / e-ink display / electronics / featured / FIlip Wolak / gif / Greg Sadetsky / ImageMagick / infrared / invisible ink / iPhone / javascript / Javier de Azkue / Joseph Wilk / Juan Miguel Marin / Luisa Fabrizi / madmapper / Mar G. Mcmahon / MaxMSP / Melissa Holmes / micro-controller / mirror / Model Magic clay / motor / OBS / openFrameworks / paper / pen / piezo sensor / Plywood / polycarbonate tube / Printed paper / projector / python / PyTorch / Raspberry Pi / receipt printer / resistor / Rockite / Sara Khan / servo motor / SFPC / Sheldon Chang / SN74HC595N multiplexer / Stefan Pelikan / Stefanie Schirmer / tablet / Taeyoon Choi / Vivienne La / voice / webcam / website / Yehwan Song
Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, ‘BIY™ – Believe it Yourself’ is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions.
Tags: arduino / ATmega328 / automato / belief system / camera / distance sensor / Electrat Microphone / featured / Google AIY Vision Bonnet / gps / IMU / luck / Neopixel LEDs / NLP / pcb / python / raspberrypi / solenoid / Sound / speaker / superstition
This past March, CAN 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., the event was comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposium, and took place at UAL’s newly refurbished Camberwell College of Art in London.
Tags: Andreas Gysin / arduino / document1 / featured / github / learning / led / matix / Processing / rgb / workshop
HALO is a large scale immersive artwork which embodies Semiconductor’s ongoing fascination with how we experience the materiality of nature through the lens of science and technology.
Tags: ableton / arduino / CERN / featured / installation / maxforlive / MaxMSP / science / Semiconductor
Learn how to prototype post-screen interfaces, examine network infrastructures, hack museums, and transplant scents with leading artists, designers, and researchers at this year’s Mapping Festival.
Tags: bauhaus / Benjamin Gaulon / Carmen Salas / Coralie Gourguechon / Daniel Bisig / featured / Geneva / head / Jan Schacher / Joana Moll / Johanna Jaskowska / Klara Ravat / Leander Herzog / mapping / Mapping Festival / Marc Garrett / Maria Yablonina / Michael Ang / Mitchell Akiyama / MXZEHN / Nathalie Bachand / neeeu / Nora Al-Badri / normals / Regine Debatty / SmellLab / Tatiana Bazzichelli / Ted Davis / touchdesigner / TUNDRA / workshop / ZHdK
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Tags: ai / Angelika Seeschaaf- Veres / Daniel Daam-Rossi / featured / furniture / furniture design / Koby Barhad / nema 23 / object / radical norms / Tensorflow