Art Hack: Crowdsourcing Digital Art From The City
Submitted by Steve on March 15, 2012
Ariel Schwartz for Co.Exist:
Stick a bunch of artists, web designers, developers, and hackers in a room, and what do you get? A visual and acoustic representation of Bay Area earthquake data, a sound collage of randomly dialed phone numbers, and on-the-fly digital art created from MP3 files.
The aforementioned projects are the winners and honorable mentions from Art Hack SF, a weekend-long hackathon put on by the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) and The Creators Project, an art and technology network led by Intel and Vice. Art Hack asked San Francisco residents (the hackathon was open to anyone who signed up) to use some of the newest tools on the Internet--HTML5 and WebGL--to generate the most creative projects they could imagine.