CMD: Experiment in bio-algorithmic politics

Created by Michael Sedbon, 'CMD' is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented in the design of automated infrastructures and algorithms.

SFPC Fall 2019 Student Showcase

SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.

EPPD #112019 – Studio NOWHERE

The Experimental Prototype of Project Droid (EPPD_#112019) is an evolving concept developed by Studio NOWHERE, in order to discuss the relationship between man, machine and nature. Based off of one of the Studio’s early research projects, the EPPD_#112019 began with the investigation into a structure of a mechanical limb, using pneumatic devices and studio-made air […]

NIKE LeBron 17 Interactive Basketball Trial – Studio NOWHERE

Client:Nike         Design & Developed: Studio NOWHERE We supported Nike to create a highly digitalized basketball court in its offline store where users could complete challenges and view their performance.

Loud Matter – Utilising classic animation techniques in a custom-made performative instrument

Loud Matter is a new audiovisual live performance that unites live created stop motion animation, drums, live code & 8 bit chiptune music. Using stop motion technique to animate physical materials, a classic animation technique born in the 1920´s that evolved throughout the century used for creating animated tv series and films before CGI largely took over as […]

CAN 2019 – Highlights and Favourites

As per tradition each year, December is when we look back at the amazing work published on CAN. From ingenious machines and installations to mesmerising experiences that leverage new mediums for artistic inquiry – we added scores of projects to CAN's archive in 2019. Here are some highlights.

FILE 2020 – Open Call

Registrations are opened to the 21st edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, from October 15, 2019 to January 14, 2020. Since 2000 FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in São, in addition to participations […]

Intersections – The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Celebrates its 30th Anniversary

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.

Click Canvas

Click Canvas is my version of creative canvas for the gallery visitors to left some of their creative artworks at the Yelo house gallery. 187 Boxes of light being constructed as creative tools likes pen and pencil but the color of each box being changed each time the audiences press it. I am quite amazed […]

Untangling technology and research at the ECAL Research Day on November 8th

CAN will join (and report from) the ECAL Research Day, an eclectic symposium where artists, designers, and scholars will discuss the entanglement of technology and research.

Summer 2019 Diversions!

“My God is Machinery; and the art of the future will be the expression of the individual artist through powers of the machine – the machine doing all those things that the individual workman cannot do. The creative artist is the man who controls all this and understands it” – Frank Lloyd Wright, circa 1901 […]

Neo-Natur – A space for thought, about and for Nature / ART+COM

Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, 'Neo-Natur' is a permanent installation for Berlin's Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption.

Why Would You Want to Picture It – On being a vector inside a neural network

Created by Philipp Schmitt, "Why Would You Want to Picture It" is a sculpture and sound installation engaging with opacity of ‘black box’ machine learning algorithms.

Call for Artists: CURRENTS New Media 2020

Be a part of our 2020 Artist Lineup! Artist submissions are now open for CURRENTS 2020 New Media Festival. With 10 years of new media production, display, and support in its wheelhouse, CURRENTS New Media has become known as one of the leading emerging media arts festival in the States.

Artengine Digital Economies Lab – Call for Participants

Ottawa-based Artengine is looking for Canadian and U.S. artists, designers, and cultural producers to take part in its Digital Economies Lab (DEL), a "year-long exploration of the wonders and anguish of making art and culture in the 21st century.

OpenDataCam 2.0 – An open source tool to quantify the world

OpenDataCam is a open source tool to quantify the world. It consists of a camera attached to a mini computer that is running an object detection algorithm that counts and tracks moving objects.

Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adjustable landscapes

Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, 'Artificial Arcadia' is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape entangles natural, artificial and digital realms.

WiFi Impressionist – City as an electromagnetic landscape

Created by Richard Vijgen, 'WiFi Impressionist' is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.

Codici Visivi. New tendencies in algorithmic graphics. Exhibition, workshop and talks @TorinoGraphicDays19

During the 2019 Torino Graphic Days, TODO launches “Codici visivi. New tendencies in algorithmic graphics”, an exhibition dedicated to the contamination between graphic design and technology. The exhibition will be held at TODO’s headquarters in Turin on September 12th, and will showcase works by international visual communication studios and designers who have experimented with new […]

Journeys into data; design, journalism and education. Encode.info

Encoding, decoding.The act of encoding and the act of decoding are two phases of interpreting the same message. For us, encoding is the action of taking data and stories and turning it into something that is codified — this is often the role of the practitioner.

Algorithmic Drive – Spectacular car(au)tonomy

'Algorithmic Drive' is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.

Vectoglyph – Vector forms as a foreign language

Created by Nicolas Boillot, 'Vectoglyph' is a project exploring both the behaviour and implications of GPT-2 AI, a text generating model developed by OpenAI that is able to generate coherent texts in English on demand (including "fake news").

Tracking Skynet – Sousveillance project by Filipe Vilas-Boas

Created by Filipe Vilas-Boas, 'Tracking Skynet' comprises the recording of a surveillance satellite whilst being under surveillance of the same.

Fusing Theory and Practice at MUTEK’s Twentieth

HOLO curates a series of critical conversations and hands-on exercises as part of the 20th Edition of MUTEK Monreal, Aug 20-25.

Document 1. – Symposium Report

Report from the inaugural CAN-curated event series 'Document #.' examining new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice.