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Created by Rayane Jemaa, the project investigates representation and counterfactual histories of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a selection of video games.
27/09/2021Created 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.
27/09/2019Learn 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.
30/04/2019Created by Wizard Mode (Ben Porter), MoonQuest is a single-player procedurally-generated adventure game set in a strange nocturnal world. The gameplay is a mix of roguelike and minecraftian genres and sits somewhere between Terraria and Spelunky, with the main aim to search the generated world for moonstones.
23/07/2018Created by Shunichi Kasahara in collaboration with Satoru Higa, Takuto Usami, Shotaro Hirata and Tetsuya Konishi, “Superception” (Super + perception) is a research framework that uses computer technologies to intervene and transform human perception.
26/04/2018To enhance the hypnotic and ritualistic aspects of their music, Yerçekimi (Gravity), a band from İstanbul, Turkey created a website that uses satellite imagery of alien landscapes from around the world and in doing so matches the atmosphere of their music perfectly.
05/12/2017Created by David Hoe (Mini Cloud Studios) from London, and currently on Kickstarter, ‘Modern Map Art Prints’ is a collection of detailed maps transformed into colourful abstract art prints of anywhere in the world. The project celebrates the joys of travel and the unique fingerprint of every city from above – it is a crossover of modern maps and playful colour using specially created software.
30/08/2017Created by London based convivial studio, Kinedioscope is a technique used to create animated depth effects on static photographs. The process is comprised of reverse-engineering the technology of photogrammetry in order to perfectly align the photography with the perspective of the 3D model and create depth and masking effects.
04/07/2017Created by Studio Antimateria in collaboration with participating students at the workshop hosted by Presidio Temporaneo di Architettura, Shape in Scapes is an audiovisual installation that provides an abstract representation of students’ architectural projects.
09/02/2017Wind of Boston: Data Paintings by Refik Anadol Studios is a site-specific installation that turns the invisible patterns of wind in and around Boston into a series of data paintings on a 1.8m x 4m digital canvas.
04/01/2017Created by Zach Lieberman in collaboration with Google’s Data Arts team, ‘Land Lines’ is a web experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to create an infinite line of connected rivers, highways and coastlines.
16/12/2016Created by Studio Puckey & Moniker, Radio Garden is a research project that places radio research within contemporary discussions about migration, cultural identities, encounters and memories by generating new knowledge about the meaning of radio and listening in the age of globalisation and digitisation.
12/12/2016Created by Regina Flores, Holobiont Urbanism is a research project that sets out to study, map, and visualize the microbiome of New York City, inviting participants to reimagine the city they live in as more than a vast metropolis, but rather as a complex and adaptive biological superstructure.
27/07/2016Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan’s students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.
25/05/2016Created by Luiz Zanotello at the University of the Arts, Bremen, The New Velocity is a machine designed to plot the phantom Sandy Island using digital as a new analogy for its existence. The project investigates a charting error that persisted in cartographic maps even after the advent of digital media. It speculates how data and physical phenomena are entangled, and how in contemporaneity, the two have the same weight under digital media.
22/12/2015Created by Quadrature, Kartograph is a drawing machine that updates old maps by drawing new geographic data over the infrastructure of old times using the internet.
03/12/2015Created by Berlin based studio Quadrature, Satelliten is a custom build machine that brings the invisible movement of passing satellites in lower orbit to a tangible medium and scale.
06/03/2015Patterns of Harmony is an installation comprised of animated fractal of cubes, without containing any physical cubes, rather the reflections and projections of them.
31/10/2014Created by LUSTlab in collaboration with The Mobile City, Binnen de Lijnen is part of an ongoing research project called Public Space – Public Matter from Trancity. Over 100 children took part in colouring the playground which visualised the spatial organization of Schilderswijk’s social life.
24/10/2014Series of works exploring the subject of drawing images in the space around the earth using latitude, longitude and altitude as a coordinate system.
24/09/2014Picture the Sky is a project by Karolina Sobecka in an attempt to reverse the process of satellite imagery to where we, as one, become a very large ‘sociotechnological apparatus’ looking up at the sky, an infrastructure for our technology. Take part in the project this Saturday!
12/08/2014Nimbes is an audio-visual installation designed for 360º immersive environments exploring boundaries between natural and artificial, and questioning the solitary nature of perception and observation and their relationship to both the cosmic and human scale.
18/06/2014Created by Marc Faasse, Playground NDSM is an interactive photomontage that includes 7 years of photographs taken by Marc and mapped on the googlemaps.
14/05/2014It’s that time of the year when we take a week break and unplug from the internet. Before we step away, it is our duty to highlight some of the projects that we found to be the most memorable.
20/12/2013Created by Olivier Ratsi, an artist on the ANTIVJ visual label, Onion Skin is a new immersive installation comprised of two walls, positioned at right angles and augmented by a projection and a 5.1 sound broadcast.
21/10/2013Benedikt Groß is a speculative and computational designer whose work is often featured on here on CAN. We recently interviewed him in order to glean a little insight about Benedikt’s thoughts his recent work, ‘outsider’ cartography, and generative strategies.
11/10/2013Processing sketch by Nicholas Felton for rendering location and activity data from the Moves app for the iOS.
30/08/2013This project, a collaboration between Dentsu, Honda Motor and Rhizomatiks brings back Senna’s engine sound from that lap 24 years ago in the form of an installation set on the original Suzuka circuit that uses light and sound.
12/08/2013Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
24/05/2013What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been “messing” with it using openFrameworks.
17/05/2013Created by Rayane Jemaa, the project investigates representation and counterfactual histories of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a selection of video games.
Tags: archive / cinema4d / ecal / Games / mapping / Photogrammetry / real / representation / scanning / sdf zephyr / threejs / webgl
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
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
Created by Wizard Mode (Ben Porter), MoonQuest is a single-player procedurally-generated adventure game set in a strange nocturnal world. The gameplay is a mix of roguelike and minecraftian genres and sits somewhere between Terraria and Spelunky, with the main aim to search the generated world for moonstones.
Tags: algorithm / Ben Porter / box2d / game design / game engine / Games / generative / level / level planner / mapping / noise / opengl / process / python / sfml / simulation / Wizard Mode
Created by Shunichi Kasahara in collaboration with Satoru Higa, Takuto Usami, Shotaro Hirata and Tetsuya Konishi, “Superception” (Super + perception) is a research framework that uses computer technologies to intervene and transform human perception.
Tags: apparatus / body extension / featured / head / houdini / mapping / MaxMSP / openframework / perspective / projection / projection mapping / Satoru Higa / Shotaro Hirata / Shunichi Kasahara / space / Takuto Usami / Tetsuya Konishi / touch designer / vr / vvvv / wearables
To enhance the hypnotic and ritualistic aspects of their music, Yerçekimi (Gravity), a band from İstanbul, Turkey created a website that uses satellite imagery of alien landscapes from around the world and in doing so matches the atmosphere of their music perfectly.
Created by David Hoe (Mini Cloud Studios) from London, and currently on Kickstarter, ‘Modern Map Art Prints’ is a collection of detailed maps transformed into colourful abstract art prints of anywhere in the world. The project celebrates the joys of travel and the unique fingerprint of every city from above – it is a crossover of modern maps and playful colour using specially created software.
Tags: canvas / colour / David Hoe / google maps / google maps api / kickstarter / mapping / nodejs
Created by London based convivial studio, Kinedioscope is a technique used to create animated depth effects on static photographs. The process is comprised of reverse-engineering the technology of photogrammetry in order to perfectly align the photography with the perspective of the 3D model and create depth and masking effects.
Tags: 3d model / autodesk / convivial studio / creativeappsnet / depth / effect / experiment / featured / image / mapping / meshlab / meshmixer / openFrameworks / Photogrammetry / photography / point cloud / projection / scanning
Created by Studio Antimateria in collaboration with participating students at the workshop hosted by Presidio Temporaneo di Architettura, Shape in Scapes is an audiovisual installation that provides an abstract representation of students’ architectural projects.
Tags: architecture / creativeappsnet / learning / mapping / media design / performance / projection / students / visualization
Wind of Boston: Data Paintings by Refik Anadol Studios is a site-specific installation that turns the invisible patterns of wind in and around Boston into a series of data paintings on a 1.8m x 4m digital canvas.
Tags: cinema4d / creative technology / creativeappsnet / data / data collection / installation / mapping / media / media art / particle flow / particles / process / Processing / Refik Anadol / rendering / visualization
Created by Zach Lieberman in collaboration with Google’s Data Arts team, ‘Land Lines’ is a web experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to create an infinite line of connected rivers, highways and coastlines.
Tags: chrome experiment / drawing / google data arts / javascript / mapping / mobile / opencv / Touch / webgl / Zach Lieberman
Created by Studio Puckey & Moniker, Radio Garden is a research project that places radio research within contemporary discussions about migration, cultural identities, encounters and memories by generating new knowledge about the meaning of radio and listening in the age of globalisation and digitisation.
Tags: chrome / cms / dark sky / javascript / libraries / mapping / microsoft bing / Moniker / process / radio / react / redux / studio puckey / terriajs / WebApp
Created by Regina Flores, Holobiont Urbanism is a research project that sets out to study, map, and visualize the microbiome of New York City, inviting participants to reimagine the city they live in as more than a vast metropolis, but rather as a complex and adaptive biological superstructure.
Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan’s students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.
Tags: Aman Tiwari / CMU / code / David Newbury / Golan Levin / Irene Alvarado / Kyle McDonald / machine learning / Manzil Zaheer / mapping / neural networks / p5js / Processing
Created by Luiz Zanotello at the University of the Arts, Bremen, The New Velocity is a machine designed to plot the phantom Sandy Island using digital as a new analogy for its existence. The project investigates a charting error that persisted in cartographic maps even after the advent of digital media. It speculates how data and physical phenomena are entangled, and how in contemporaneity, the two have the same weight under digital media.
Tags: arduino / cartography / Luiz Zanotello / mapping / openFrameworks / raspberrypi / speculation / speculative / student / university of arts bremen / university of bremen
Created by Quadrature, Kartograph is a drawing machine that updates old maps by drawing new geographic data over the infrastructure of old times using the internet.
Created by Berlin based studio Quadrature, Satelliten is a custom build machine that brings the invisible movement of passing satellites in lower orbit to a tangible medium and scale.
Tags: Arduino microcontroller / data / drawing / drawing machine / machine / mapping / Quadrature / Raspberry Pi / satellite / scale / space / tangible / topology / tracking
Patterns of Harmony is an installation comprised of animated fractal of cubes, without containing any physical cubes, rather the reflections and projections of them.
Tags: after effects / animation / cinema4d / Gaspar Battha / geometry / mapping / object / Processing / projection
Created by LUSTlab in collaboration with The Mobile City, Binnen de Lijnen is part of an ongoing research project called Public Space – Public Matter from Trancity. Over 100 children took part in colouring the playground which visualised the spatial organization of Schilderswijk’s social life.
Series of works exploring the subject of drawing images in the space around the earth using latitude, longitude and altitude as a coordinate system.
Tags: data / Events / EWHA / exhibition / gps / image / Jihoon Byun / Kimchi and Chips / location / mapping / projection / Seoul / Shinseungback Kimyonghun / The Distortion Field
Picture the Sky is a project by Karolina Sobecka in an attempt to reverse the process of satellite imagery to where we, as one, become a very large ‘sociotechnological apparatus’ looking up at the sky, an infrastructure for our technology. Take part in the project this Saturday!
Tags: berlin / Crowdsource / Events / Karolina Sobecka / mapping / photography / process / sky / sociotechnology / take part
Nimbes is an audio-visual installation designed for 360º immersive environments exploring boundaries between natural and artificial, and questioning the solitary nature of perception and observation and their relationship to both the cosmic and human scale.
Tags: 360 / 3d scanning / Environment / Events / immersive / James Ginzburg / Joanie Lemercier / mapping / process / projection / scan / scanning
Created by Marc Faasse, Playground NDSM is an interactive photomontage that includes 7 years of photographs taken by Marc and mapped on the googlemaps.
Tags: aerial / archive / google maps / googlemaps / history / landscape / mapping / record / topography / view / WebApp
It’s that time of the year when we take a week break and unplug from the internet. Before we step away, it is our duty to highlight some of the projects that we found to be the most memorable.
Tags: 3d printing / art / collection / installations / interaction / interaction design / Interface / light installation / list / mapping / News / projects / technology
Created by Olivier Ratsi, an artist on the ANTIVJ visual label, Onion Skin is a new immersive installation comprised of two walls, positioned at right angles and augmented by a projection and a 5.1 sound broadcast.
Tags: antivj / Environment / installation / mapping / Olivier Ratsi / parallax / perspective / projection / Sound
Benedikt Groß is a speculative and computational designer whose work is often featured on here on CAN. We recently interviewed him in order to glean a little insight about Benedikt’s thoughts his recent work, ‘outsider’ cartography, and generative strategies.
Tags: Benedikt Groß / book / generative / interview / landscape / mapping / publishing
Processing sketch by Nicholas Felton for rendering location and activity data from the Moves app for the iOS.
Tags: AppStore / collection / data / feltron / geomapping / geotagging / ios / mapping / Nicholas Felton
This project, a collaboration between Dentsu, Honda Motor and Rhizomatiks brings back Senna’s engine sound from that lap 24 years ago in the form of an installation set on the original Suzuka circuit that uses light and sound.
Tags: analysis / code / Daito Manabe / data / dentsu / formula 1 / Hidenori Chiba / Hiroyuki Hori / honda / mapping / MaxMSP / Muryo Honma / open frameworks / Qosmo / racing / representation / rhizomatiks / Satoru Higa / Shipoo / Sound / Tomoaki Yanagisawa / visualisation
Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
Tags: CLICK Festival 2013 / Environment / Jonas Jongejan / Kyle McDonald / mapping / openFrameworks / projection / reflection / structured light
What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been “messing” with it using openFrameworks.
Tags: experiment / fbo / laser / mapping / Marshmallow Laser Feast / memo akten / openFrameworks / projection / projection mapping / realtime