Log
Data Critters – Tracing our digital actions through modern scribes
Data Critters are custom-built mechanical plotters connected to live data feeds from the platforms they map. They trace paths across paper as data is generated, producing an ever-growing, never-finished map of online human activity.
Designing Questions
Designing Questions introduces an alternative design pedagogy. At its core are speculative practices, world-building, material engagement, and storytelling, equipping students and practitioners to address urgent questions of our time.
IED Master of Arts in Interaction Design: shaping emerging technologies for products and services
IED Master of Arts in Interaction Design focuses on training designers who can shape and manage interaction ecosystems where physical and digital dimensions converge.
In A Minute – The rhythm of our global impact
The keys in the front door, the scribbling of a pencil, the bubbling of the coffee pot. These elements of our everyday soundtrack hold meaning for all of us, so we programmed these familiar objects to move to the rhythm of our global impact.
V6 Development Log (03/2026)
Activity gets a major update: LiveURLs let you embed p5.js, video, audio and more directly in posts. Custom Themes let you personalise CAN. API v2.3 and iOS v1.5.1 add Analytics and Channels.
Paramnésico by Desilence at Load Gallery
Load gallery celebrates its second birthday with a solo exhibition Paramnésico by Desilence, pioneers of visual scenography and real-time motion video.
Uncoded Gestures – Tracing the echos of the past
Uncoded Gestures is an installation that traces cultural memory through posture. By mapping live silhouettes to archival photos, it reveals how modern bodies echo the past, turning everyday gestures into a dialogue across time.
Maintenance of Everything
Maintenance of Everything is an in-depth exploration of maintenance—and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
Partition – You look through a wall, the wall looks through you
Partition is a pen plotter that draws at the speed of your heartbeat, sensed through a gallery wall without your consent.
Beyond the Screen – How algorithms look back at us
Beyond the Screen is an immersive installation that explores how algorithms look right back at us - exposing, in real time, how machine vision perceives and interprets human behaviour.
Material Interactions – A New Species of Design
In a debut collaboration, a series of five material-driven kinetic sculptures by designers Nadya Suvorova and Heidi Jalkh don’t just move: they respond, proving that "passive matter" is anything but.
Ex Nihilo – Casey Reas
Latest in Casey REAS’ Still Life series, Ex Nihilo (Cosmos) draws on the forms and conceptual framework of the five Platonic solids: cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Forever Frequencies – Joint symphony of sound and reminiscence
Forever Frequencies is an installation that computes a personal melody from a visitor's memory, using their own past and imagined future as the raw material for a one-of-a-kind musical composition.
Helical Echo – A modular, evolving object
The Helical Echo is a sculptural totem created for CultHoldings. Like the abstracted DNA forms it displays, the sculpture itself is designed to evolve, to be upgraded and reshaped.
Lecturer – Computing Applications at Texas Tech University
The School of Professional Studies at Texas Tech University Online invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Lecturer position in Computing Applications to begin Spring 2026.
Freelance Producer/Director – Museum Media at RLMG
RLMG is seeking a visionary Producer/Director to lead the creative development of cinematic, story-driven media experiences for museums and cultural institutions.
T(h)ree – Integrating community knowledge with natural infrastructure and AI
T(h)ree is a permanent landscape intervention in Central London, that gives a ‘voice’ to a Tree that has witnessed hundreds of years of history, so people can talk with it and ask questions.
BiblioTech – ReReading the Post-digital Library
BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age.
Scruple – A Chrome extension that replaces moral hesitation with computation
Scruple reads your Gmail, runs four ethical frameworks in parallel, and writes the replies — simulating compassion, automating principle, outsourcing guilt.
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses – Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial research practices that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks.
Interview with Marc Vilanova – The hidden frequencies of embodied sound experiences
Serena Cangiano meets Marc Vilanova to talk about infrasound, embodied listening, and the invisible frequencies that connect human bodies, urban infrastructures, and natural environments.
Corpseware – Seven years of dormancy, one moment of bloom
Corpseware is a minimal, disc based software ritual housed in a tablet form vernacular shrine inspired by the bloom mechanic of the Corpse Flower.
Residual Lines – Fragility of Knowledge
Residual Lines is a redaction machine that visualizes the loss of new knowledge tied to recent research grant cuts.
Exploring Post-Poster at MDes Basel
Grace Hannah Park’s graduate thesis project at MDes Basel reveals new possibilities for the moving poster through an exploration of physical sensors and creative-coding.
StarScript – Collective wonder encoded, processed, and projected
StarScript is an interactive astronomy-inspired installation that inverts the observational logic of radio telescopes — turning the act of image reconstruction into a live, collective, and tactile experience.
V6 Development Log (02/2026)
February’s push debuts CAN API (v2.1) and our iOS App (v1.3.1). Members can now participate in Activity directly via mobile, or build their own micro-apps using the API.