KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
File Festival 2025 – Synthetika
FILE returns for a another year, this time curated by Clarissa Vidotto, Paula Perisinotto and Ricardo Barreto exploring topics of synthetic technologies, algorithms and immersive realities as new aesthetic experiences.
UAL Creative Computing Institute Summer Festival 2025
UAL’s Creative Computing Institute is proud to present the CCI Summer Festival 2025. Our talented students will showcase groundbreaking projects that blend artistic vision with technological skill. From immersive installations to AI-driven designs...
Future Play at London Tech Week
At London Tech Week, innovation takes centre stage. This annual event brings together technologists, investors, and industry leaders who are shaping the future of tech – which is exactly why you’ll find UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI) there.
deu(s ex) machina | Game Jam Showcase
Vector Vestival's five gamemakers in residence have been hard at work making games exploring how technology has enriched/hindered pursuits for sexual intimacy and self-understanding; join them in celebration, and play some games!
FILE 2024 – Call for Entries
The Call for Entries to participate in FILE – Electronic Language International Festival’s projects in 2024 is now open. The festival seeks original artworks in Art and Technology, by Brazilian and international artists. Registration remains open ...
SPACE/S – 12th Patchlab Digital Art Festival
The 12th edition of the Patchlab SPACE/S Digital Art Festival will take place from October 19th to 22nd in Krakow and on October 28th at the Silesian Planetarium in Chorzow
Call for Submissions: CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival
CURRENTS New Media is now accepting submissions for their 2024 Art and Technology Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Vector Festival 2023: Shadow Work
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices.
_econtinuum – 11th Patchlab Digital Art Festival
Between October 6th and 9th 2022, the 11th edition of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival will be held in Krakow.
Sensorium Festival 2019: The Augmented Mind and Where to Look For It
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)
Eyeo Festival 2019 – Converge to Inspire
Don’t miss the 9th installment of this inspiring Creative Technology Conference.
BIAN’s 4th Edition – Contemplating (Post-Digital) Corporeality
A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
Sight + Sound 2017 – A Spectrum of Non-Compliant Futures
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.’
MUTEK 2017 – Connecting Montreal to four cultural metropoles
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.
NODE17: Designing Hope / 26.6-2.7 2017 / Frankfurt, Germany
In just a short few weeks, NODE is back for another edition and invites you to take part in a week long exploration of creative technologies.
Spheres of Influence – Drawing lifelines of the city
Created by the SCI-Arc Faculty members Curime Batliner and Jake Newsum for the for the third annual Mextropoli Festival, Spheres of Influence is a temporary installation installed in the patio of Laboratorio Arte Alameda. Part installation and par...
Vector Festival 2017 – Call for Submissions
InterAccess’ Vector Festival returns with its fifth edition next summer and its curators have issued their annual call for work in and around the edges of videogame culture.
Art && Code Returns with WEIRD REALITY
Pittsburgh’s Art && Code returns with a much-needed consideration of “new and independent visions for VR, MR, and AR.” Taking place from Oct 6-9th, and deliriously titled WEIRD REALITY, the four-day symposium gathers many of the best and brightest...
Digital Art of Tehran – TADAEX06
In a little over a week, the 6th edition of TADAEX festival (Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition) takes place at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran, Iran. It's a strong manifestation of the digital scene in Tehran and the people who make it possible, it fe...
Bass Bins, VR Headsets, and Beyond – MUTEK 2016
CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
Tense Relations: human vs. machine art and aesthetics at BIAN
CAN contributor Dylan Schenker considers AUTOMATA (“art made by machines for machines”) and the uneasy relation between human and machine aesthetics at the third edition of Montreal’s BIAN digital art biennale.
Art after Silicon Valley – A conversation with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts team
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.
Ascent – Bends, fractures, and blurs of the phenomenon of light
Created by London based studio Nocte, Ascent is interactive installation intended to blur and at the same time highlights its surroundings. Using nature as a basis for aesthetic, Ascent is a mesmerising sight of smooth lines and soft light.
MUTEK_IMG – Take a Deep Dive into VR and Immersive Media
Taking place in Montréal on Oct 1st-3rd, the second edition of MUTEK_IMG takes a deep dive into the creative possibilities of VR and immersive media.
OFFF MX 2015 – Form and Future
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”.