BIY™ (Believe it Yourself) – Real-fictional belief-based computing kits by Automato

Created by Shanghai based design studio automato.farm, ‘BIY™ – Believe it Yourself‘ is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions. The team worked with experts in fortune telling from Italy, geomancy from China and numerology from India to translate their knowledge and beliefs into three separate […]

Displuvium – Simulating natural and rigged meteorological phenomena

Created by Fragmentin, ‘Displuvium‘ is an artistic research that examines the human desire to control our natural environment, particularly meteorological phenomena. The installation, developed with Designer Renaud Defrancesco, takes the form of a pool filled with water and placed directly on the ground. On the water surface, the visitor can observe rainfall: water drops are […]

Physicalising a Pixel – LED Matrix Display Tutorial / Document 1. Workshop

This past March, CAN joined forces with UAL Creative Computing Institute to present the first in a series of events that examine new forms of cross-disciplinary art and design practice. Entitled Document 1., the event was comprised of a workshop, seminar, and symposium, and took place at UAL’s newly refurbished Camberwell College of Art in London.

HALO – Science of nature through the eyes and ears of a technological sublime

HALO is a large scale immersive artwork which embodies Semiconductor’s ongoing fascination with how we experience the materiality of nature through the lens of science and technology.

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 and imperfectly characteristic.

Alt-C – Designing for synergy between our ecosystems and network economics

Created by Michael Sedbon, Alt-C is an installation that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency. The project questions our relationship to ecosystems in regards to networked technologies and abstraction problematics.

AI Facial Profiling, Levels Of Paranoia – Exploring the effects of algorithmic classification

Created by Marta Revuelta, AI Facial Profiling, Levels of Paranoia is a project exploring the potential and implication of AI technologies by proposing a machine that recognises the ability of an individual to handle firearms and predicts their potential to cause harm from a biometric analysis of their face.

Bit – The demise of chance and the rise of algorithm

Created bu Jonghong Park  at the University of the Arts Bremen (Digital Media Program), the installation ‘bit’ represents a natural random process based on the principle of a Markov chain. 

300000 km/s – Visualising ping for interplanetary communication

Created by André Andrade at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design Unit), 300000 km/s is a data visualisation project to highlight the consequential delay in communication in the probable future (interplanatory) expansion of the territory of Man.

Weather Thingy – Real time climate sound controller

Created by Adrien Kaeser at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design Unit), Weather Thingy is a custom built sound controller that uses real time climate-related events to control and modify the settings of musical instruments.

House Party – Scavenged, mechanical and synthesised orchestra

Created by Neil Mendoza during an artist in residence at Recology SF,  House Party is a musical installation that explores prized possessions in their native habitat. All the materials used to create this artwork, from the furniture to the computers, were scavenged from the discarded trash. The music is a mix of mechanical and synthesised sounds.

Connected Tools – Devices that mediate smartphone consumption

Created by Giulio Barresi at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design Unit), Connected Tools is a series of objects that explore alternative rituals that could lead to a more reasonable consumption of mobile technologies.

Festival Lumínica 2018 · del 4 al 6 de octubre · Resistencia (Chaco Argentina)

Los próximos 4, 5 y 6 de octubre, Resistencia (provincia del Chaco -Argentina), vivirá la cuarta edición del Festival Lumínica.
Un evento único en la región que reúne a realizadores, artistas audiovisuales y multimedia, programadores, diseñadores y estudiantes. Los interesados tendrán la oportunidad de formar parte de charlas abiertas, talleres, asistir a encuentros con artistas y todas las herramientas en relación al arte y la tecnología, con el objetivo de enriquecer de manera colectiva las producciones regionales.

Esta vez, las actividades se realizarán en la Casa de las Culturas (Marcelo T. de Alvear y Mitre); con entrada libre y gratuita.
El evento es organizado por la productora Chedé, con apoyo del Cecual, el departamento de Industrias Culturales del Instituto de Cultura de la provincia del Chaco y el Instituto de Turismo de la provincia del Chaco.

En esta cuarta edición la apuesta fue mucho mayor que en años anteriores, primero se realizaron exitosas muestras del festival a través de los llamados “pre Lumínica” que se realizaron en Resistencia, Corrientes, Misiones y Formosa. De esta manera, la comunidad lumínica conformada por Dj’s, Vj’s, audiovisualistas, diseñadores, programadores y artistas visuales logró que el público pudiera vivir la experiencia. Además, se realizaron charlas para la comunidad, momentos de intercambios de experiencias, workshops para realizadores y artistas visuales.

En Shows/Mapping los seleccionados fueron: Fiesta Amazonía (Estefania Blanco, Katharina Saporitti, Tatiana Rodríguez)
Agite Oberá (Maria Prima, Kmiac O Ojolote Cam, Alejandro Pace, TuGuaina, Ajitawira)
Cuestión (Mariana Alarcón, Yoselin Cabrera, Michelle Colcombet, Valeria Deiset, María Romero y Carolina Schaller);
Moya Moya (Fabricio Costa Alisedo, Emilio Moya, Cecilia Moya).

En instalaciones:
-Pscicodelical Bottle (Michelle Colcombet, Valeria Deiset, Carolina Schaller)
-Quiero Que Escuches Todo Esto. Sobre Todo Esto (Germán Ezequiel, Lorenzo Robert)
-Inmersión (Ana Belén Ghiano Aguzin, Giuliana Micaela Rubiolo)
-A Puerta Cerrada (Andrea Sánchez Bogado, Germán Andrés Ramírez, Julieta Ayub, Ana Pereyra Coimbra, Rocío Molina, Julieta Rabadán)
-Aequorea (María Belén Kunz Beuttenmüller, Rocío Mburucuyá Molina, María Florencia Sánchez Aquino)
-Homo Videns (Tami Lang Goy)
-La Piedra De Las Manos (Leonardo Lucas Guardianelli, Guillermo Canteros)

En Videoarte:
-Burla (Jonathan Alonso)
-Drogas (Ramiro Guillén Strusiat)
-Dsdna(Rt) (Marcos Montané)
-Alice No País Do Baurets (Rafael Bqueer)
-Soledad Urbana (Indiana Got).

En Espacio MediaLab: Ableton Live, Resolume Arena, VVVV, Arkaos GrandVJ, Arduino, Cámaras IP, Kinect, Isla MIDI e Isla Sintes, Edu Cabrera de VJ Mori Ya.

La entrada Festival Lumínica 2018 · del 4 al 6 de octubre · Resistencia (Chaco Argentina) aparece primero en Vjspain Comunidad Audiovisual, Mapping, Vj, Diseño Interactivo.

Face Trade – Art vending machine that trades mugshots for “free” portraits

Face Trade is an Art Vending Machine created by Matthias Dörfelt that dispenses unique prints of computer generated face drawings. Instead of paying with money, buyers trade a mugshot that is taken on the spot in order to be permanently stored in the Ethereum Blockchain, consequently turning the transaction into a semi-permanent Face Swap.

ChineseWhispers – Inaccurately transmitted gossip

Created by Saurabh Datta, "ChineseWhispers" is an installation comprised of four head figures performing "Chinese Whispers" – a sequence of repetitions of a story, each one differing slightly from the original, so that the final telling bears only a scant resemblance to the original.

HALO – Sculpting the sunlight into (im)material form

Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material and immaterial.