Art Bytes at the Walters

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Art has the power to bring people from diverse backgrounds together for enjoyment, discovery and learning. In this spirit, Baltimore will hold Art Bytes, a hackathon where technology and creative communities work together to build programs and applications inspired by art or to address specific challenges faced by museums.... [read more]

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Art has the power to bring people from diverse backgrounds together for enjoyment, discovery and learning. In this spirit, Baltimore will hold Art Bytes, a hackathon where technology and creative communities work together to build programs and applications inspired by art or to address specific challenges faced by museums. This will be Baltimores, and perhaps the nations, first art museum hackathon.

This event will be at the Walters Art Museum from July 27July 29. On Friday evening, July 27, staff from Baltimores museum community will present specific challenges or ideas that they would like solvedfrom how to use technology to experience a collection to how to virtually access archives. Over the course of the weekend, technologists, innovators, scholars and artists will coalesce into teams in the Walters Sculpture Court to design and develop their solution. Participants will be able to visit the museums galleries for inspiration throughout the weekend.

Visit our Idea Page to submit and vote on projects for teams.

On Sunday afternoon, July 29, leaders of the technology and innovation communities will judge which teams were the most successful. The experience of Art Bytes will be captured on video, and the team solutions displayed at Walters the following week.

Thanks to the generosity of the Abell Foundation $5,000 will be awarded in prizes!



Judges:


Mario Armstrong, Digital Lifestyle Expert, CNN, NPR, WYPR
Greg Cangialosi, Managing Director, Nucleus Ventures, LLC
Jeannie Howe, Executive Director, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
Sid Meier, Director of Creative Development, Firaxis
Sheri Parks, Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Maryland and regular contributor to WYPR Midday
Murray Taylor, President, Digital Steamworks



Where: The Walters Art Museum, Sculpture Court

When: Friday, July 27Sunday, July 29

Friday, July 27, 59 p.m.

Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m.midnight

Sunday, July 29, 10 a.m.5 p.m.

Price: Free




We would like to thank the following sponsors for making Art Bytes possible:




Abell Foundation: Art Bytes Awards Sponsor

Maryland Technology Development Corporation

Charles and Mary Kay Nabit

Rosenberg, Martin, Greenberg, LLP

Joyce L. Ulrich and Hank Stewart

Jessica Watson, Jwatson Creative

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