2010 Archives

Ryoji Ikeda [Profile]

Japan’s leading electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. His work exploits sound’s physical property, its causality with human perception and mathematical dianoia as music, time and space. Using computer and digital technology, Ikeda has bee...

Anamorphic Architecture [Objects, Inspiration]

Whilst a large number of visual artists are focused on large scale projections, it is refreshing to see when individuals explore possibilities of small objects, something tangible, seeing what is possible and what does it all mean. Such is the work of the work from David Hall‘s studio class in IDAS Hongik: Each artists developed […]

Written Images [Books, News]

Created in collaboration with more than 70 media artists and developers from across the world, Written Images is the first of its kind, a ‘programmed book’, continuously regenerated for the digital printing process, offering each reader a unique experience. The team, including Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel first announced their...

PulsART. [iPhone, iPad]

Created by Megan Monroe, PulsART. brings back memories of Peter Saville‘s legendary album cover for Joy Division in the app form. Create Unknown Pleasures like visuals using a number of options provided including color, number of bends, grooves, and twists. Whats included: • 8 distinct Pulse Styles • Color switching and inversion • Large p...

Merry Christmas!

Have a great one fellow travellers! CAN. below: Variations for brass quintet (and organ) on a well known Christmas Theme by Andrew Sorensen Made with Impromptu, an OSX programming language and environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming.

“A Philosophy of Computer Art” by Dominic Lopes [Books, Review]

A Philosophy of Computer Art is a text that may interest some readers of creativeapplications.net as it covers the intersection of computing and art, discussing some of the classics of interactive art, and doing a lot of thinking about what art that uses computers actually is. In it Dominic Lopes does several things very well: […]

Variations on PI [Processing, Objects]

“Variations on Pi” is a limited edition of 50 unique light paintings created by Nils Völker. Each one of these paintings is based on a different range of consecutive decimal places of the number pi (3,14159… the mathematical constant which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter). Whilst a Machine, equipp...

Voidie [iPhone, iPad, oF]

We are happy to announce that after only 2 day review at Apple, new CAN app is now available in the AppStore. Created in collaboration with Francis Lam aka dbdbking, Voidie is an abstract depiction of the Great Void which uses a sound reactive particle system illustrating the activity around it. The app also functions as […]

Hemesh and HemeshGui [Processing]

Hemesh is an exciting Processing library by Frederik Vanhoutte (W:Blut) that can be used to create elaborate 3D shapes quickly. It is an implementation of the half-edge datastructure, hence the name Hemesh. What makes this datastructure interesting is it’s inherent ability to store connectivity information. So it’s much more than just a list of ...

Random Word Machine [iPhone]

Created by Dutch design studio Booreiland, Random Word Machine, as the name describes, lets you generate random words. The algorithm is based on neurolinguistic theories which ensures that the whole space is explored of theoretical words that could have been. Pronouncing them can be somewhat a little more challenging. You can use this machine as...

Hazard: The Journey Of Life [Games]

Nominated as the finalist for IGF 2011, Hazard: The Journey Of Life, created by Alexander Bruce aka Demruth is a philosophical first person single player environmental puzzle game. Built using Unreal Engine 3, Hazard is a response to the monotony of popular games and Demruth desire to create a game he always wanted to create. Starting with [&hel...

Exile [iPad]

EXILE is the world’s first Opera for iPad. An interactive music video, it combines the drama of Helen Gifford’s chamber opera with the extraordinarily textured generative visuals of Amsterdam based cult digital media artists Champagne Valentine. In case you haven’t seen their previous work, champagnevalentine.com is a must. The EXILE...

Support CAN

Just a quick note on ways you can support CAN this Christmas. We’ve been growing ever since launch and with this have our bills, time spent on the site, research, content, apps and much more. This means that we have much less time to do work that pays and as much as we love spending […]

Make A Snowflake Yours [Processing]

Inspired by the recent papercamp, presentation by Laura Dickinson (photos) and work by Richard Sweeney, Sermad Buni and tbwa-london commissioned Karsten Schmidt to create an application that would generate unique snowflake from your name – the twist is that we also give you a pattern that you print, cut out, stick together and you have your own ...

Strange Rain [iPhone, iPad]

Created by Operton and Erik Loyer, Strange Rain turns your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a skylight on a rainy day. Raindrops fall and splatter on your screen, shifting perspective as you tilt your device. Touch the screen and guide the path of the raindrops, stepping through the notes of an eerie melody as you go. […]

Carbon [Mac, Windows]

Carbon is a piece of software for Mac and PC created by Tabor Robak that looks at the transition between the real and the virtual. While some true qualities of physicality are lost in digitization this is made up for by creating new ways to communicate and new opportunities to use material and scale expressively. […]

Troblion [Objects]

Troblion is an autonomous spherical robot that rolls in an oval partially irrigated sandbox. Following very simple programmed rules the sphere creates a variety of different motion characteristics that can be interpreted as emotions. While it is rolling, it builds a layer of hardened sand on its outer surface giving ability to Troblion to change...

Watermans 2012 New Media Exhibitions Project [Events]

To coincide with the Olympics in London in 2012, Watermans is pleased to announce a unique opportunity to present a series of groundbreaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. Much New Media / Digital Art is increasingly aimed at interaction with the audience and artists are continuously explori...

Drawing Machine [MaxMSP, Processing]

For the past four years Harvey Moon has been building a Drawing Machine, a mechanical robot that takes commands from a computer in order to draw onto the wall. Many (here and here) have done a similar device in the past, what gives Harvey’s machine uniqueness is the algorithm that translates the image into drawing path. He […]

Kinetic Pavilion [iPad, Processing, Scripts]

This is a preliminary test model of a kinetic pavilion by Yannick Bontinckx and Elise Vanden Elsacker. The final model will contain 28 servo motors controlled by an Arduino Mega and a Duemilanove board all connected to Rhino & Grasshopper via FireFly. The demo movie below includes a TouchOSC & gHowl setup which allows the structure to be...

Dynamic Structure 29117 [c, Objects]

Dynamic Structure 29117 is the latest in the collection of kinetic structures created by Willem van Weeghel in the last year. The 29117 is a mural object with dimensions of 4.20 x 2.80 m. It consists of a white background and 32 dark blue lines. These lines (made of thin stainless steel and carbon) can all rotate […]

100.000.000 Stolen Pixels [Scripts]

100.000.000 stolen pixels is a personal project by Kim Asendorf in attempt to create an archive of numerous sites by ‘stealing pixels’ from them. A web crawler created by Kim started with 10 URLs (See first 10 in url.log) and searched HTML pages for images and hyperlinks. Each found image got downloaded and 100 pixels […]

Electric Stimulus – Face as an instrument

Masaki Teruoka is the subject with touch sensors attached to Daito's fingers not only sending shocks to Masaki's face but also outputting the results to MaxMSP via Arduino to generate sound

New Digital Landscapes [Cinder, Kinect]

With new technology come new landscapes. These may appear in the form of users, social groups, tools and work but in some kind of form they are connected, relating to one another and feeding from one another. Kinect is describing a new form of landscape, driven by arrangement of points derived from our physical environment. […]

Images in Cinder [Tutorials, Cinder]

Written by Joshua Noble, with images by Robert Hodgin In this little tutorial we’re going to follow a path that starts with a file on the filesystem, say a PNG file, and ends with the image being drawn to the screen using OpenGL. // probably in your App's setup() method gl::Texture texture = loadImage( "image.jpg" ); // […]

Tangible Color Music Instrument [openFrameworks, Sound]

Looking at the interaction between rhythm and technology, thesis project by Ryan Raffa uses tangible, audio-visual interactions to illustrate how physical and representative objects translate, transmit, and are encoded with rhythm. This prototype moves my “radar player” out into physical space and allows users to manipulate and move translucent,...

Pulsate [iPhone, Sound]

Created by the team behind Audio Tool, Pulsate is a sound toy, an instrument which uses pulse as a way to create sound. Tapping on the screen creates circles which grows in scale. When two or more circles touch, they produce a sound. You can create as many circles as you like, adjust the sound […]

DJ Light [MaxMSP]

Created by Dominic Harris and Cinimod Studio, DJ Light is an immersive public sound and light installation that gives visitors the power to orchestrate performance of light and sound across a large public space. It was created for energy company Endesa as the cornerstone of their Christmas celebrations in Lima, Peru. The installation allows one...

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