interview
Light & Sound Synthesis: In Conversation with Amay Kataria
In a world constantly adjusting and adapting to new methods of communication and connection expedited by rapid technological advancements, artist Amay Kataria explores what it means to be human.
Music of the Spheres – A Conversation with Dan Tapper
Dan Tapper is a British artist based in Toronto that combines his interest in code and celestial form and his recent research project “Turbulent Forms” visualizes and sonifies various cosmic phenomena. To mark the recent exhibition of this work (a...
Dread Bass – AUDINT’s alternate timelines reverberate with fear and death
AUDINT is a European artist collective working across animation, installation, and publishing. Drawing on excerpts from an extended conversation with the group, we unpack their vision of the dystopian future-present and the nether zones that can b...
MUTEK 2017 – Connecting Montreal to four cultural metropoles
The CAN/HOLO team is headed to Montréal for the 18th edition of MUTEK. A celebration of the best and brightest in audiovisual performance, we’ll be hosting ‘HOLO Encounters’ with several of the festival’s featured artists.
Performing Pedagogy – A Conversation with Ruairi Glynn
Interactive Architecture Lab founder Ruairi Glynn chats with CAN about the freshly-launched Design for Performance & Interaction (DfPI) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
After Urban Screens – Dave Colangelo on Massive Media
Dave Colangelo, a researcher and artist focused on the role media plays in the city. An Assistant Professor at the Portland State University in the School of Theatre + Film, and a member of the Public Visualization Studio, Colangelo chatted with C...
Too Much Information – Keiichi Matsuda’s vision for augmented and mixed reality
Riding high on the wave of massive interest in his most recent work “Hyper-Reality,” which depicts a super-mediated Medellín, Colombia of the near future, director/designer Keiichi Matsuda chats with CAN about augmented reality, Silicon Valley, an...
Art after Silicon Valley – A conversation with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts team
The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts has been active in San Francisco for a decade. On the eve of the second edition of their eponymous festival, CAN chats with the Gray Area team about their ongoing educational and programming initiatives.
When the Machine Made Art – Grant Taylor traces the origins of computational creativity
CAN interviews Grant D. Taylor, author of the 2014 book "When the Computer Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art," on the past, present and future of digital art.
Light, Space, Rhythm – A conversation with Florence To
CAN interviews Florence To, a Rotterdam-based art director and installation artist focused on audiovisual performance and the creation of immersive environments.
Codex Anima Mundi – Interview with FUSE*
In the countryside surrounding the town of Modena, immersed in peace and silence, a big luminous country farmhouse is home to one of the most up and coming protagonist on the Italian digital art scene: fuse*. We were lucky enough to have the chanc...
School of Machines / Making & Make-Believe
Founded in Berlin, Germany, in 2014, School of MA provides unique, hands-on learning experiences at the intersection of art and technology in Europe. School's founder Rachel Uwa speaks to the instructors Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina abou...
Drone Aviaries & Field Guides – A Conversation with Superflux
Superflux are a design and foresight consultancy based in London. Founded by Anab Jain and Jon Arden in 2009, the studio produces prototypes and films that are simultaneously prescient, and playful—and now they can add ‘magazine publisher’ to that...
Rethinking Art & Machine – A Conversation with Marla Wasser
Toronto-based curator Marla Wasser is the mind behind “RAM: Rethinking Art & Machine”, a media art exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that contains work by media art heroes like Angela Bulloch, Jim Campbell, Manfred ...
Delineating the Future – an interview with N O R M A L S
CAN goes in-depth with the Paris-based 'anticipatory' design studio N O R M A L S to learn about their forthcoming dark, dense, and dizzying graphic novel series. Working process, representational techniques (that bridge illustration and code), an...
Speculative cartography & programmed landscapes – a chat with Benedikt Groß
Benedikt Groß is a speculative and computational designer whose work is often featured on here on CAN. We recently interviewed him in order to glean a little insight about Benedikt's thoughts his recent work, 'outsider' cartography, and generative...
Landscape Futures – an interview with Geoff Manaugh
Landscape Futures is a recent book edited by Geoff Manaugh that unpacks the wildest intersections of landscape architecture, technology and perception. CAN interviewed Manaugh about the book last week to provide a window into this ambitious curato...
Sonification and the (re-)performance of data – an interview with Brian House
Building on the momentum from a conversation that began at Eyeo last month, CAN talks to Brooklyn/Providence-based media artist Brian House about data, sonification, performance and scandal.
A Figurine for the Ages – Matthew Plummer-Fernandez’s Venus of Google
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez's ongoing exploration of digital fabrication and recent commission to produce a new work, titled Venus of Google, for Design Exquis. CAN was fortunate enough to engage him in a freewheeling conversation about the undertak...
Creating spectacles with d3 / United Visual Artists – Special Feature
CAN talks to Ash Nehru (Director of software) and Matt Clark (Creative Director) about d3 - visual production suite that brought us the memorable Massive Attack tour in 2002 and more recent projects like the Origin. We talk how it all came about, ...
