This presentation is a personal account of a series of related projects, dealing with issues around self-organisation, hackathon culture, and collaboration between technologists and artists, with a view to social change.

Parts of our everyday reality are altered and concealed from us, either because powerful entities, such as corporations or governmental bodies, would rather we see their version of reality, or simply because we have forgotten how -and where- to look. Fortunately, artists and designers are using and devising...

This presentation deals with the employment of shadows through digital media technologies in creating temporary zones for participation, virtual memory, collective pleasure, temporary implementation of ephemeral images and transmitting time based and audience specific information. It addresses the possibilities...

Throughout history, polymaths have played an important role during times of change. Working across disciplines and artistic genres, polymaths have helped us to see connections that were hidden, grasp opportunities that we may otherwise have missed and challenge preconceptions of “what is art”? This...

CIANT stands for international Center for Art and New technology, since 1998 it bridges art, new technology and science. During the period of two years CIANT started to offer Open Art Lab program, where artist could visit our lab and get advice on how to make use of new technologies, such as Kinect,...

The artistic work of Jan Vormann is placed in an alternative reality, where everything is possible. Through limitless imaginary, he assumes a provocative role, questioning what he observes around him from an artistic, political or from a merely experimental point of view. To achieve this provocation,...

In discussing the idea of transitory art and transition, as means to designate a processual yet uncertain condition, I make reference to a series of operative concepts, artworks and situations that outline two critical dimensions – diversion and regeneration. I am using these two terms to outline...