See these art/tech mashups from Art-A-Hack at Livestream Public


Technologists teamed up with artists to take intriguing inventions and use them for artistic goals. Art-A-Hack was a project of the Volumetric Society and ThoughtWorks, with additional support from Microsoft, O’Reilly Media and Livestream.

Volumetric Society’s Ellen Pearlman opened the presentation at Livestream Public, the first event Technical.ly has been to at the space, which we recently profiled.

“The thing about Art-A-Hack, which I’m really trying to bring to the technology world, is the sense of art privileging over the hack rather than the hack privileging over the art,” said Pearlman.

Pealman’s co-organizer, Andy McWilliams, gently disagrees.

(Read more...)