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Looking Back at Tribeca Hacks: Archives
The original version of this post appeared on the blog of The Tribeca Film Institute.
The latest series from the Tribeca Hacks program, Tribeca Hacks <Archives>, was held in San Francisco March 21-23 in partnership with GAFFTA, along with support from Prelinger Archives and Internet Archives. Through open call submissions, 36 filmmakers, artists, designers and developers were chosen to participate. Ten teams collaborated to create visually rich and technologically exciting projects focusing on the Archives and archived material. At the end of the two-day hackathon, the teams presented their projects to a panel of distinguished media innovators—Tiffany ...
Retrospective: Art Hack Day Lethal Software
Art Hack Day @ GAFFTA - 2012 from Mulchio on Vimeo.
Back in December 2012, Art Hack Day took place at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA). Participants gathered in a space overlooking one of the busiest and highly trafficked streets in San Francisco to work tirelessly for 48 hours to create projects based on the theme of 'lethal software'. As I stepped into the work area to catch the hacking in real time, I recall faces concentrating and looking intensely at brightly lit laptop screens. I even passed by some participants and saw lines of code cascading down ...
Prototype quickly. Scale what works. Make cities better, faster.
In 2011, as part of Summer of Smart, we hosted a series of six interconnected events designed to prototype solutions to urban challenges and promote civic dialog. The events spanned three months, addressing a wide variety of themes ranging from public art to transportation to food access. All in all, over 400 participants spent over 10,000 hours prototyping 23 new projects.
In 2012, we took our learnings from Summer of Smart and developed them into a new global initiative, Urban Prototyping (UP), which we began in summer of 2012. UP uses a similar process of rapidly testing and scaling ...
Volunteers needed for our Art Hack Exhibition this Saturday!
Support Gray Area this year by volunteering this Saturday, December 15th.....
Beginning tomorrow, 50 creative coders will inhabit Gray Area Foundation For The Arts to create a flash exhibit on the theme of 'Lethal Software'. New art and projects created during the hack will be on display during Gray Area's fundraiser and holiday party on Saturday! Creating an exhibit in less than 3 days takes an army and we need your help! We have plenty of 4 hour shifts, so please share this with friends.
Review the shifts below and please respond to [email protected] with your selected shift(...
This December, help us meet our 2012 budget goal!
Artists, Students, Patrons, Friends!
Help us reach our goal of $500,000 by December 31, 2012 and donate $50- $500 today.
Thanks to you, our amazing community of designers, coders, makers, and innovators, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is considered the leader at the intersection of art + technology + society. We have grown 325% in the past four years and our local programs are scaling internationally! We continue to keep our class costs low, our public programs free, and our research the first of its kind so that our mission stays true: We apply digital art and technology to create ...
