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24/05/2018Created by N O R M A L S, “The Future Fishing Training Program” is a film about a speculative device and a programme designed to allow users and companies to discover glimpses of a desirable future through stories and artefacts.
10/11/2017AUDINT is a European artist collective working across animation, installation, and publishing. Drawing on excerpts from an extended conversation with the group, we unpack their vision of the dystopian future-present and the nether zones that can be conjured through sound and vibration.
16/08/2017Part of a new series of posts inviting artists and curators to share latest projects on CAN, we’d like to introduce you to Evan Boehm, and his latest collaboration with Nexus Studios. Solace is an interactive animated film based on celebrated science fiction writer Jeff Noon’s short story about a near future in which marketing and addiction are disturbingly intertwined.
19/01/2017Riding high on the wave of massive interest in his most recent work “Hyper-Reality,” which depicts a super-mediated Medellín, Colombia of the near future, director/designer Keiichi Matsuda chats with CAN about augmented reality, Silicon Valley, and CGI shopping companions.
07/06/2016Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through projected visions of alternative energies and flight.
25/06/2015Created by William Fairbrother, Alberto Ruiz Soler and Oliver Smith, ERIS—2000 is a fictional scientific instrument invented by cybernetician Erica Symms in 1971. The device was used to show and study, through a simplified simulation, the consequences of human decisions on complex systems.
16/02/2015‘Beyond Blood’ is a project that imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates.
25/06/2014“Therefore I Am” is a project exploring prenatal diagnostics – the measurement of a human before birth and consequences and ethics as scientists encode our DNA further and further.
13/02/2014Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
02/01/2014CAN goes in-depth with the Paris-based ‘anticipatory’ design studio N O R M A L S to learn about their forthcoming dark, dense, and dizzying graphic novel series. Working process, representational techniques (that bridge illustration and code), and a critical reading of contemporary design fiction.
06/12/2013Continuing our documentation of Resonate 2013, it’s a pleasure to present the talk of Anthony Dunne, professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London
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Created by N O R M A L S, “The Future Fishing Training Program” is a film about a speculative device and a programme designed to allow users and companies to discover glimpses of a desirable future through stories and artefacts.
Tags: AR / augmented reality / design / documentation / fiction / film / normals / object / project / speculation / systems / user guide / user interface / vr
AUDINT is a European artist collective working across animation, installation, and publishing. Drawing on excerpts from an extended conversation with the group, we unpack their vision of the dystopian future-present and the nether zones that can be conjured through sound and vibration.
Tags: AUDINT / bass / Defasten / design fiction / Eleni Ikoniadou / fiction / haunting / infrasound / interview / Kode9 / military / music / narrative / Patrick Doan / peppers ghost / phonograph / research / sonar / Sound / Souzanna Zamfe / speculative design / Steve Goodman / Theory / Toby Heys / vibration / warfare
Part of a new series of posts inviting artists and curators to share latest projects on CAN, we’d like to introduce you to Evan Boehm, and his latest collaboration with Nexus Studios. Solace is an interactive animated film based on celebrated science fiction writer Jeff Noon’s short story about a near future in which marketing and addiction are disturbingly intertwined.
Tags: animation / book / collaboration / creative technology / Evan Boehm / featured / fiction / film / Gethin Anthony / interactive / interactive fiction / javascript / Jeff Noon / nexus studios / short film / speculative fiction / storytelling / tonejs / web film
Riding high on the wave of massive interest in his most recent work “Hyper-Reality,” which depicts a super-mediated Medellín, Colombia of the near future, director/designer Keiichi Matsuda chats with CAN about augmented reality, Silicon Valley, and CGI shopping companions.
Tags: AR / architecture / city / featured / fiction / film / interview / Keiichi Matsuda / media / speculative / urbanism
Created by Tim Clark at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, High Speed Horizons is a design-driven, critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three, told through projected visions of alternative energies and flight.
Tags: aircraft / Counterfactual / design / design interaction / fiction / history / Innovation / project / rca di / royal college of art / speculation / technology / tim clark
Created by William Fairbrother, Alberto Ruiz Soler and Oliver Smith, ERIS—2000 is a fictional scientific instrument invented by cybernetician Erica Symms in 1971. The device was used to show and study, through a simplified simulation, the consequences of human decisions on complex systems.
Tags: Alberto Ruiz Soler / design / fiction / history / ios / MaxMSP / Oliver Smith / rca IED / Reference / speculation / William Fairbrother
‘Beyond Blood’ is a project that imagines a legal system where algorithms take over the inheritance process where the deceased has not left a will and the state has to distribute the estates.
Tags: data / design interactions / emotion / fiction / future scenarios / internet of things / object / Processing / rca / speculative / Sures Kumar / system / value / visualisation / Vivagraphjs
“Therefore I Am” is a project exploring prenatal diagnostics – the measurement of a human before birth and consequences and ethics as scientists encode our DNA further and further.
Tags: arduino / design fiction / device / ethics / fiction / Michael Burk / speculation / vvvv
Pro-Folio is a portfolio website that can generate up to 690,903,803 trillion portfolios of fictional artists and designers with unique name and work combinations.
Tags: css / design interactions / education / fiction / javascript / php / portfolio / Processing / project / rca / rca di / Sures Kumar / WebApp / website
CAN goes in-depth with the Paris-based ‘anticipatory’ design studio N O R M A L S to learn about their forthcoming dark, dense, and dizzying graphic novel series. Working process, representational techniques (that bridge illustration and code), and a critical reading of contemporary design fiction.
Tags: book / comic / complexity / featured / fiction / future / future scenario / graphic design / graphicdesign / illustration / interview / N O R M A L S / networks / normals / speculative / speculative fiction
Continuing our documentation of Resonate 2013, it’s a pleasure to present the talk of Anthony Dunne, professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London
Tags: anthony dunne / design fiction / design interactions / Events / fiction / futures / rca / rca di / resonate / resonate 2013 / talk
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Tags: cinema / cinematography / death / Douglas Edric Stanley / fiction / film / Games / journey / mapping / metaphor / narrative / photography / poetry / storytelling / Theory
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