ArtTech Hack
Collaboration across disciplines. Bringing together top students and recent graduates from art and technology to build at the intersection of creativity and innovation.
Past Events
- Preview ArtTech Hack — during the After the Algorithm Festival
Mission
In 1843, Ada Lovelace described computation as a system capable of weaving patterns, comparing the Analytical Engine to the Jacquard loom. She understood computation not only as calculation, but as a cultural and expressive machine.
ArtTech Hack builds on this lineage: treating AI systems not just as technical artifacts, but as structures that shape perception, meaning, and agency. By bringing contemporary AI research into dialogue with artistic practices, the hackathon revisits a foundational insight of computing, that abstraction and imagination have always been intertwined.
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. — Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)