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Between October 6th and 9th 2022, the 11th edition of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival will be held in Krakow.
07/09/2022An international competition that competes for the best in the world with projection mapping video from 1 min to 1 min 59 sec, “1minute Projection Mapping Competition” will be held in December 2021. This time, it will be held at “Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery” in Tokyo! The theme for the competition is “希望 / HOPE”,…
16/08/2021From 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)
07/05/2019Don’t miss the 9th installment of this inspiring Creative Technology Conference.
20/03/2019A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
03/08/2018The 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.’
01/11/2017The 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.
01/08/2017In 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.
24/05/2017Created 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 part live performance, it uses a robotic system from Staubli to paint layers of graphics (abstracted from the city) onto a series of human-scale spheres.
24/03/2017InterAccess’ 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.
05/12/2016Pittsburgh’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 working in and at the fringes of immersive media.
21/09/2016In 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 features Iranian digital artists as well as far reaching international network of collaborators thanks to an ongoing residency program with NODE Forum for Digital Arts.
14/09/2016CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
22/06/2016CAN 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.
17/06/2016The 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.
13/04/2016Created 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.
10/11/2015Taking 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.
24/09/2015CAN 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”.
17/09/2015CAN’s report on Sónar+D, the Sónar Festival’s sidebar congress on ‘creativity, technology & business’ that took place June 18th-20th in Barcelona.
29/06/2015CAN 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.
11/06/2015The sixteenth edition of Montréal’s ELEKTRA festival took place from May 13th-17th and delivered a range of audiovisual performances and installations addressing the notion of ‘post-audio’ or perception beyond sound—CAN was on hand to have our retinas singed and eardrums buzzed by the ‘POST-AUDIO’-themed programming.
26/05/2015MUTEK Montreal returns with another dynamic edition. As was the case last year, we’ll be doing live interviews with some of the featured audiovisual artists within the festival’s daytime program—join us! A showcase of ‘the state of the art’ in chic house, techno, and dynamic audiovisual performance, the 16th edition of Montréal’s MUTEK festival takes…
13/05/2015In two weeks the inaugural edition of the Gray Area Festival takes place in San Francisco. Fusing a conference, performances, workshops, and an exhibition, the event gathers artists and philanthropists to discuss the impact of art and technology on culture. Several weeks back CAN announced the homeward stretch of Gray Area’s #ReviveTheGrand fundraising drive, now…
08/05/2015[dark_box]The 16th edition of the ELEKTRA international digital art festival takes place May 13–17th in Montreal. With this year’s theme POST-AUDIO and the coinciding inaugural edition of BIAS (the International Sound Art Biennial), ELEKTRA examines the influence of sound on our psyche and explores phenomena of listening.[/dark_box] A yearly celebration of audiovisual possibilities, ELEKTRA’s upcoming…
17/04/2015Curated in collaboration with the Moscow-based sound, art and technology community MIGZ, we are pleased to announce the Educational Programme for the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Lights” taking place 5th and 6th October at the Red October district.
24/09/2013Vector festival, a self-described “game+art convergence” touches down in Toronto for four days later this week with a program of screenings, performances, panel discussions and exhibitions. CAN tracked down Skot Deeming of Vector’s curatorial team (pictured above, to the right of Clint Enns, Katie Micak and Christine Kim) to get the lowdown on the first edition of the festival.
18/02/2013Following the success of the first Resonate festival that took place in March 2012, Magnetic Field B in collaboration with CreativeApplications.Net and Dom Omladine in Belgrade are pleased to announce the new edition of the festival, taking place 21-23 March 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia.
22/10/2012The Abyss is a 3d space where custom programs (creatures) can be built and released. By creating one or more creatures, this tutorial aims to provide an introduction into graphics, animation, interaction with Processing and expand the boundaries and the variety of the Abyss. Basic creatures just floating their existence away can coexist with more sophisticated ones…
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18/06/2012Sorry, 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…
14/06/2012Between October 6th and 9th 2022, the 11th edition of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival will be held in Krakow.
An international competition that competes for the best in the world with projection mapping video from 1 min to 1 min 59 sec, “1minute Projection Mapping Competition” will be held in December 2021. This time, it will be held at “Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery” in Tokyo! The theme for the competition is “希望 / HOPE”,…
Tags: competition / contest / festival / internationalcontest / mediaart / opencall / projectionmapping / tokyo / videomapping
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
Don’t miss the 9th installment of this inspiring Creative Technology Conference.
Tags: ai / code / creative code / creative technology / Events / festival / machine learning / minneapolis / technology
A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
Tags: Adam Basanta / Addie Wagenknecht / Aleksandra Domanović / BIAN / Chikashi Miyama / Cod.Act / daniel rozin / Elektra / festival / IMDA / Manfred Mohr / MIAN / montreal / NSDOS / Ralf Baecker / review / SAT
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
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
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.
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 part live performance, it uses a robotic system from Staubli to paint layers of graphics (abstracted from the city) onto a series of human-scale spheres.
Tags: architecture / Curime Batliner / Events / festival / grasshopper / Jake Newsum / performance / public space / rhino / robotics / sciarc / Staubli
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.
Tags: chiptune / festival / InterAccess / machinima / Martin Zellinger / performance / Skot Deeming / toronto / vector / videogames
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 working in and at the fringes of immersive media.
Tags: Ali Momeni / AR / CMU / festival / Golan Levin / Milica Zec / Omer Shapira / Pittsburgh / Sarah Rothberg / VIA Festival / vr / Yasmin Elayat
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 features Iranian digital artists as well as far reaching international network of collaborators thanks to an ongoing residency program with NODE Forum for Digital Arts.
Tags: Ali Panahi / Amir Bastan / Ashkan Ghadimkhani / culture / development / Digital / documentation / festival / making / Mohsen Gallery / programme / scene / Tehran
CAN’s report on the audiovisual highlights (and our participation) in the 17th edition of Montréal’s venerable MUTEK festival.
Tags: Dasha Rush / Dave Gaskarth / derivative / festival / Herman Kolgen / Lauren Goshinski / Lee Gamble / MFO / montreal / music / MUTEK / Nonotak / Paul Jebanasam / QUADr / Simon Wilkinson / Stanislav Glasov / Tarik Barri / Tim Hecker / Uwe Schmidt
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.
Tags: Alain Thibault / Arsenal / Ben Bogart / BIAN / Bill Vorn / Elektra / featured / festival / Lukas Trunige / Minha Yang / montreal / Nelmarie Du Preez / Orlan / Paolo Almario / Patrick Tresse / Pe Lang / review / Robatlab / SAT / Zimoun
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
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.
Tags: d3 / festival / installation led / led strips / light / manufacture / nocte / performance / process
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.
Tags: Darsha Hewitt / exhibition / festival / immersive / Julian Oliver / Marshmallow Laser Feast / Moment Factory / montreal / MUTEK / NFB / phi centre / projection mapping / vr
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
CAN’s report on Sónar+D, the Sónar Festival’s sidebar congress on ‘creativity, technology & business’ that took place June 18th-20th in Barcelona.
Tags: barcelona / Emmanual Biard / festival / Joanie Lemercier / Kamil Nawratil / review / sonar / sonar+d
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
The sixteenth edition of Montréal’s ELEKTRA festival took place from May 13th-17th and delivered a range of audiovisual performances and installations addressing the notion of ‘post-audio’ or perception beyond sound—CAN was on hand to have our retinas singed and eardrums buzzed by the ‘POST-AUDIO’-themed programming.
Tags: Baltan Laboratories / BIAS / bitforms / Carsten Nicolai / Clinker / Cod.Act / Diamond Version / Elektra / festival / Frank Bretschneider / Gary James Joynes / IMDA / Kontejner / Martin Messier / Matthew Biederman / Maxime Damecour / Microwave / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / Myriam Bleau / Olaf Bender / Paul Prudence / Pierce Warnecke / review / The Art of Failure
MUTEK Montreal returns with another dynamic edition. As was the case last year, we’ll be doing live interviews with some of the featured audiovisual artists within the festival’s daytime program—join us! A showcase of ‘the state of the art’ in chic house, techno, and dynamic audiovisual performance, the 16th edition of Montréal’s MUTEK festival takes…
Tags: audiovisual / festival / Hiroaki Umeda / interview / montreal / music / MUTEK / Robin Fox / Sound
In two weeks the inaugural edition of the Gray Area Festival takes place in San Francisco. Fusing a conference, performances, workshops, and an exhibition, the event gathers artists and philanthropists to discuss the impact of art and technology on culture. Several weeks back CAN announced the homeward stretch of Gray Area’s #ReviveTheGrand fundraising drive, now…
Tags: Casey Reas / Eric Rodenbeck / Events / exhibition / fat / festival / Gray Area / Jane Metcalf / Paola Antonelli / San Francisco
[dark_box]The 16th edition of the ELEKTRA international digital art festival takes place May 13–17th in Montreal. With this year’s theme POST-AUDIO and the coinciding inaugural edition of BIAS (the International Sound Art Biennial), ELEKTRA examines the influence of sound on our psyche and explores phenomena of listening.[/dark_box] A yearly celebration of audiovisual possibilities, ELEKTRA’s upcoming…
Tags: audiovisual / BIAS / can events / Elektra / Events / exhibition / festival / montreal / Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal / performance
Curated in collaboration with the Moscow-based sound, art and technology community MIGZ, we are pleased to announce the Educational Programme for the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Lights” taking place 5th and 6th October at the Red October district.
Tags: can / code / Events / festival / knowledge / learning / light design / migz / moscow / projection mapping / russia
Vector festival, a self-described “game+art convergence” touches down in Toronto for four days later this week with a program of screenings, performances, panel discussions and exhibitions. CAN tracked down Skot Deeming of Vector’s curatorial team (pictured above, to the right of Clint Enns, Katie Micak and Christine Kim) to get the lowdown on the first edition of the festival.
Following the success of the first Resonate festival that took place in March 2012, Magnetic Field B in collaboration with CreativeApplications.Net and Dom Omladine in Belgrade are pleased to announce the new edition of the festival, taking place 21-23 March 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Abyss is a 3d space where custom programs (creatures) can be built and released. By creating one or more creatures, this tutorial aims to provide an introduction into graphics, animation, interaction with Processing and expand the boundaries and the variety of the Abyss. Basic creatures just floating their existence away can coexist with more sophisticated ones…
Tags: Andreas Gysin / animation / Events / festival / graphics / learning / Processing / resonate / resonate2012 / tutorial / workshop
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Tags: antivj / BIAN / festival / installation / Olivier Ratsi / project mapping / projection mapping / sculpture
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