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The path to today’s dance-tech, review the projects by YCAM, and speculate the next steps of dance-tech through a conversation with Richi Owaki, an artist and researcher at YCAM.
24/01/2022In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
06/05/2021In 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.
08/11/2019A review, photos, and selection of highlights from the abundant offerings of the 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal.
03/08/2018Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
04/04/2018“Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design” is an exhibition that excavates the foundation of computer-aided design and manufacturing and weaves together several ‘origin stories’ for contemporary consideration. The show recently closed after a seven-week run at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and CAN was fortunate enough to get a guided tour with curator Daniel Cardoso Llach as it was winding down.
21/11/2017The 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.’
01/11/2017‘How much should we let algorithms shape our lives?’ is the question at the heart of Ed Finn’s recent book “What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing”. Scanning Silicon Valley, computer science, and the cultural sphere alike it offers a smart and accessible reading of our current moment.
10/08/2017A follow-up to the influential 2012 booklet series “Critical Making,” “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” is a new zine by Vancouver-based theorist and educator Garnet Hertz that uses dissent as a lens to survey electronics-based projects and practices.
13/07/2017Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
15/05/2017An output of the Office for Creative Research, OCR Journal #002 documents the process and philosophy of the Brooklyn-based studio specializing in complex data-informed projects.
09/12/2016CAN 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.
17/06/2016Taking place at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima between 17 March – 19 June, New Realities is a touring exhibition curated and produced by Alpha-ville which explores how the phenomenal pace of technological advancement is changing the way we perceive ourselves and our world.
14/06/2016A consideration of systems and scale in Marina Zurkow’s “MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans)” and Rachel Rose’s “Everything & More,” exhibitions recently mounted at (respectively) bitforms and the Whitney Museum for American Art in NYC.
14/03/2016CAN’s report on Sónar+D, the Sónar Festival’s sidebar congress on ‘creativity, technology & business’ that took place June 18th-20th in Barcelona.
29/06/2015The 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.
26/05/2015This past December a dozen artists, activists, and researchers converged at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for a book sprint. Led by Addie Wagenknecht, the all-women cadre convened under the collective moniker Deep Lab, and examined how privacy, security, surveillance, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society.
13/01/2015Montreal, the beginning of May, a dark performance space illuminated by an otherworldly glow; this combination of factors could only mean one thing – Elektra! CAN was on hand at the 14th edition of the venerable Canadian digital arts festival to soak up the proceedings and we’ve prepared the following overview of some of the (well, our) highlights.
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21/02/2013“The main change in the design process achieved by using generative design is that traditional craftsmanship recedes into the background, and abstraction and information become the new principal elements.”
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06/11/2012Processing enthusiasts rejoice! There is a new book coming by Daniel Shiffman and it’s called Nature of Code. As it’s title implies this book takes phenomena that naturally occur in our physical world and shows you how to simulate them with code.
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31/10/2011The path to today’s dance-tech, review the projects by YCAM, and speculate the next steps of dance-tech through a conversation with Richi Owaki, an artist and researcher at YCAM.
Tags: ARKit / community / dance / digital dance / moton capture / review / richi owaki / touchdesigner / ycam / ycam interlab
In today’s mercurial, complex, and ambiguous world, our bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real more than ever. The world-famous collective Rhizomatiks is testing the web, presenting performances and experimental online-based systems, and approaching these situations from a variety of angles.
Tags: Daito Manabe / Elevenplay / Events / exhibition / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / online / performance / review / rhizomatiks
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
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
Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
Tags: ACT / ACT Festival / Asia Culture Center / Daito Manabe / data / database / Digital / Evala / Events / exhibition / featured / Gwangju / Harshit Agrawal / information / Jeon Joonho / Jonas Jongejan / Kazunao Abe / knowledge / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / learning / making / Marko Peljhan / Matthew Biederman / Moon Kyungwon / Pierce Warnecke / privacy / review / Ryoji Suzuki / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sang-won Leigh / Satoshi Furuya / security / Sho Miyake / south korea / technology / Tomas Saraceno / visualization
“Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design” is an exhibition that excavates the foundation of computer-aided design and manufacturing and weaves together several ‘origin stories’ for contemporary consideration. The show recently closed after a seven-week run at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and CAN was fortunate enough to get a guided tour with curator Daniel Cardoso Llach as it was winding down.
Tags: Andrew Heumann / BiarBalliet / CAD / CAM / Cambridge University CAD Group / Carl Lostritto / Carnegie Mellon / Charles Eastman / Dana Cupkova / Daniel Cardoso Llach / darpa / exhibition / Generative Design / geometry / George Stiny / Golan Levin / Ivan Sutherland / Joseph Choma / Jürg Lehni / Ken Knowlton / Lillian Schwartz / Miller Gallery / mit / MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory / Paul Pagnaro / Philip Steadman / Pittsburgh / review / Scott Donaldson / Sketchpad / software / Steven A. Coons / The Computer History Museum / Zach Lieberman
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
‘How much should we let algorithms shape our lives?’ is the question at the heart of Ed Finn’s recent book “What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing”. Scanning Silicon Valley, computer science, and the cultural sphere alike it offers a smart and accessible reading of our current moment.
Tags: algorithm / Bitcoin / blockchain / book / computation / Ed Flinn / facebook / featured / google / Ian Bogost / MIT Press / Netflix / Norbert Wiener / review / silicon valley / Theory / Uber
A follow-up to the influential 2012 booklet series “Critical Making,” “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” is a new zine by Vancouver-based theorist and educator Garnet Hertz that uses dissent as a lens to survey electronics-based projects and practices.
Tags: Annina Rüst / book / Camille Baumann-Jaeger / critical making / Doug Easterly / Ebru Kurbak / electronics / Garnet Hertz / Institute for Applied Autonomy / Irene Posch / Jaime Carreriro / Jen Liu / Julian Oliver / Matt Kenyon / Paola Antonelli / Pedro G.C. Olivera / politics / publishing / review / Scott Kiddall / Women on Waves / Xuedi Chen / zine
Showcasing three film collaborations by Liam Young and Tim Maughan, “New Romance: Love Stories from the Machine City” is an exhibition currently showing at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery (Columbia GSAPP) about finding respite and cultivating resistance in the smart city.
Tags: Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery / CGI / Columbia GSAPP / drone / exhibition / featured / film / Liam Young / lidar / politics / rendering / review / surveillance / Tim Maughan
An output of the Office for Creative Research, OCR Journal #002 documents the process and philosophy of the Brooklyn-based studio specializing in complex data-informed projects.
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
Taking place at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima between 17 March – 19 June, New Realities is a touring exhibition curated and produced by Alpha-ville which explores how the phenomenal pace of technological advancement is changing the way we perceive ourselves and our world.
Tags: Alpha-ville / Carmen Salas / Estela Oliva / Events / exhibition / guest post / Lima / review / Telefónica
A consideration of systems and scale in Marina Zurkow’s “MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans)” and Rachel Rose’s “Everything & More,” exhibitions recently mounted at (respectively) bitforms and the Whitney Museum for American Art in NYC.
Tags: bitforms / installation / logistics / Marina Zurkow / Rachel Rose / representation / review / video / Whitney Museum of American Art
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
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
This past December a dozen artists, activists, and researchers converged at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry for a book sprint. Led by Addie Wagenknecht, the all-women cadre convened under the collective moniker Deep Lab, and examined how privacy, security, surveillance, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society.
Tags: Addie Wagenknecht / Allison Burtch / anonymity / book / Claire Evans / data / Denise Caruso / Events / film / Harlo Holmes / Ingrid Burrington / Jen Lowe / Jillian York / Kate Crawford / Lindsay Howard / Lorrie Cranor / Maddy Varner / Maral Pourkazemi / politics / privacy / review / Runa Sandvik / security / society / surveillance
Montreal, the beginning of May, a dark performance space illuminated by an otherworldly glow; this combination of factors could only mean one thing – Elektra! CAN was on hand at the 14th edition of the venerable Canadian digital arts festival to soak up the proceedings and we’ve prepared the following overview of some of the (well, our) highlights.
Tags: audiovisual / Elektra / Environment / montreal / performance / review / Sound
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Tags: book / code / Daniel Shiffman / learning / natural systems / Processing / review / simulation
“The main change in the design process achieved by using generative design is that traditional craftsmanship recedes into the background, and abstraction and information become the new principal elements.”
Tags: archive / Benedikt Groß / book / Claudius Lazzeroni / design / generative / Hartmut Bohnacker / history / Julia Laub / Reference / review
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Tags: book / Chrisopher Noessel / film / interaction design / Nathan Shedroff / review / science fiction
Processing enthusiasts rejoice! There is a new book coming by Daniel Shiffman and it’s called Nature of Code. As it’s title implies this book takes phenomena that naturally occur in our physical world and shows you how to simulate them with code.
Tags: Amnon Owed / book / code / Daniel Shiffman / learning / natural systems / nature / Processing / review / simulation
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Tags: book / new aesthetic / review / Theory / V2_ Institute for Unstable Media
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