Residual Lines – Fragility of Knowledge
Residual Lines is a redaction machine that visualizes the loss of new knowledge tied to recent research grant cuts.
Pattern Project – Collaborative hand drawing
The Pattern Project revolves around collaborative pattern development, embracing intuitive, form and experiment-driven approach, working in cooperation with artists, students, children, and museum visitors.
BUSY – Seeing the city all at once, its intricate systems layered and interwoven
BUSY explores the overwhelming, layered systems of urban life through generative algorithms, procedural and hand-drawn elements, created autonomously, with digital and physical outputs.
Generative Art 1€ – Democratizing art consumption and collection
Created by Niklas Roy, Generative Art 1€ is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings. A generative algorithm continuously draws an animated black line on a screen, offering an endless stream of potential artworks. Each piece exi...
Breeze – The decimal place, a construct of nature beyond 0 and 1
'Breeze' is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6x16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix...
Anti-Drawing Machine – Whimsical and imperfectly characteristic collaborator
Created by Soonho Kwon, Harsh Kedia and Akshat Prakash, Anti-Drawing Machine project explores possible alternatives of how we engage with robots today—instead of purely utilitarian and precise, Anti-Drawing Machine is a robot that can be whimsical...
Block Bills – 64 banknotes generated from the Bitcoin Blockchain
Created by Matthias Dörfelt, 'Block Bills' is a series of 64 banknotes generated from the Bitcoin Blockchain. Each banknote represents one block in the chain and the whole series consist of 64 consecutive blocks starting at block #456476.
Polyloge #1 – Hyper-local message feed
Polyloge #1 is an interactive installation and a hyper-local message feed. Through an open WIFI network, users in reach of the wireless signal can send text messages with their smartphones, tablets or computers. These messages get printed immediat...
Muscle Plotter – Assistive interface for hand-drawn computation
Created by Pedro Lopes, Doğa Yüksel, François Guimbretière, and Patrick Baudisch at the Hasso Plattner Institut, Muscle-Plotter is an assistive interface that allows hand-drawn computation using EMS muscles actuation.
Athletics of Transcendence – Legitimising computational constructs by analogical imposition
Athletics of Transcendence explores how traditional craftsmanship can appear to legitimise and provide depth to otherwise flat computational constructs.
PyroGraph – Drawing machine that listens and burns
Created by Bjørn Karmann in collaboration with Nicolas Armand and Lars Kaltenbach, Pyrograph is a CIID project inspired by the thermal printers used for receipts in all shops. The Pyrograph draws with dots burned with a 450 °C tip on to paper and ...
Folding Patterns – Simulating folded paper structures
Folding Patterns is an investigation of methods to create three dimensional structures that behave like folded paper and have controllable properties.
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.
Kartograph – Drawing new geographic data over the infrastructure of old
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.
Possible, Plausible, Potential – Drawings of architecture generated by code
Created by Miguel Nóbrega, Possible, Plausible, Potential is a set of three series of isometric drawings generated by code and printed with colored markers on a plotter machine. In these drawings, Miguel explores a bridge between the iterative asp...
HTTPrint – Turn your browsing habits into a newspaper
Created by Emilie Pillet at ECAL, HTTPrint is a Google Chrome extension which generates a webpage that captures your navigation on the Web such as the time you spend on each page, the url, images and texts, in order to give a visual output. You ca...
An Sich (The Thing Itself) – The significance of physical manifestation of information
Created by Schunck Dölker (Felix Dölker and Florian Schunck) and first shown at Unwrap (University for Applied Sciences Darmstadt), An Sich explores perception and processing of information in a time that is characterized by changes in the way inf...
Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter
Created by Dana Zelig, Traces project explores the concept of programming everyday materials, a form of "physical programming" where objects are "made to act" on some form following specific instructions.
23-3d-beach-sand-wallpaper – Julieta Gil
Created by Julieta Gil, 23-3d-beach-sand-wallpaper presents simultaneous illusion and reality of space that is both a simulation of an interior and the exterior, combined into one, and presented as physical installation.
PhonoPaper for iOS/Android – Graphical sound generator and writer
Created by Alexander Zolotov, PhonoPaper is a format of graphical representation of the sound (music, human voice, etc.); in other words, it is the 2D audio barcode (by analogy with the QR-code).
Paper Electronics by Coralie Gourguechon
Coralie Gourguechon is a designer and a paper electronics maker. Hi projects aim to to demystify electronics by simplifying the execution of simple circuits in a graphical way and using paper.
Autonomous Drawing Robot by Matthias Dörfelt, Determined to Reproduce
Robo Faber is an autonomous drawing robot determined to continuously reproduce graphic connectors. It creates drawings generated using a preset system that is based on the the same process as drawings created by hand.
Looks Like Music – Yuri Suzuki at Mudam 2013
For its summer project in 2013, Mudam’s Publics Department invited Yuri Suzuki to conceive Looks Like Music, an audiovisual installation based on his work with Colour Chaser - beautifully designed but minimal vehicle that detects and follows a bla...
Glassified – Ruler with transparent display to supplement physical drawing
Glassified is a modified ruler with a transparent display to supplement physical strokes made on paper with virtual graphics. The goal of the device is to complement rather than replace a typical ruler and since the display is transparent, both th...
I Follow – Randomly generated flipbooks by Matthias Dörfelt
I Follow is an ongoing series of computer generated flip books created by Matthias Dörfelt where the creature, landscape and animation are randomly generated, using Matthias' hand drawn marks.
BNJMN – “Mobile sensory image production mechanism”
BNJMN is a "mobile sensory image production mechanism" with sole purpose to create original artworks by roaming in search of paper, painting whatever he wants, and signing it before he moves on to start the cycle again.
Weird Faces Study by Matthias Dörfelt using PaperJS
Created by Matthias Dörfelt aka mokafolio, Weird Faces Study uses PaperJS library to produce computer generated faces that have a certain aesthetics and are immediately recognisable.
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