 Okay, so this is our hacks everywhere. I'm David Huerta. I'm one of the organizers for something called our hack day in New York City Just coming up in January go into that detail New York City has recently had a very proliferant hackathon culture so There's a growing technology community startup community that has been putting a focus on I guess people building things this is my first hackathon that I Attended when I moved to New York City called reinvent nyc.gov is actually a hackathon that was sponsored by the New York City government Which is really cool and also meant they had a decent-sized budget, which is why we're eating like catered fish and not like old pizza the This is basically what a lot of them are like But we want to do our hack day, which is artists and hackers this pretty much sums up why At least half of it and that's the other half So in this case we want to create epic things do epic shit So that happens when you have people with strong right brains and strong left brains working together So or it could be really awful. There's really no way to gauge that until it actually happens, so we're gonna do it This is our logo or hack day. Nothing can go wrong the It's a very different type of event we Are taking a different approach to hackathons than other hackathons are doing we think Because we're doing we're defining and broadening a lot of definitions of things a little bit of background This is Olaf. He's probably one of the main founder of our hack day He's actually based in San Francisco, but he commutes a lot to everywhere else in the world including New York We me and him actually made this like ridiculous scary pumpkin mask with the mohawk made of stems that are at a NYC resistor, and that's Paul He I could not find a real photo of him ever anywhere But yeah, so he is basically the other organizer of this the other like third of our little triad He's a web developer. He does cool stuff So I just were artists and hackers The our slogan is basically we're hackathon for artists whose medium is technology and technologists whose medium is art This is a technologist whose medium is art So these are little turtle shell racers. They're pretty awesome That's sort of thing we want to see because it's really cool and of course artists whose medium is technology This was actually at the museum of modern art down the street over at the MoMA Basically, it's a showcase of sort of Like interactive, you know human-to-object relations Which we thought was really cool and in this case we this is something that we looked at before we started Like I said, we're defining things very broadly Warhol actually thinks said that art is what you can get away with it What do you can get away with so? That's basically what we define an artist as it's very very very open-ended probably dangerously open-ended We also have a broad definition of what a hacker is in this case people tend to spend way too much time on the semantics of that in my opinion, but So basically, yeah If you show up congratulations, you're a hacker So we have a few different aspects to you the hacking that's gonna happen So this is so we're gonna be doing we're gonna have hardware hacking Spartak fun has been very generous and donating a lot of really nice stuff to play with while we're at the events That is gonna be given away to attendants There's a very horribly named startup called fascism F-A-S-H-I-S-N. That's an iPhone app that's donated that's letting us borrow some sewing machines So we'll be able to do wearable things like this really cool EL wire like outfit that Somebody was showing off at the robot film festival maker bot is also gonna be there of course with maker bots So we'll be able to do some 3d printing 3d design and You know being able to like build stuff on the spot the venue itself is also gonna have a laser cutter theoretically So we'll basically have a pop-up hacker space in the middle of bushwick in Brooklyn Of course, there's code. There's always code So a lot of people that have a sorted history and the data visualization are gonna be there from what I understand That have signed up anyway So there will be plenty of sort of the traditional get down on your laptop and start coding stuff out Sort of mentality you see a hackathons and then you have 24 hours to do it Basically the founders and I sort of have this philosophy that artists ship So if you can't make art in 24 hours, you're not a real artist So actually we do have some restrictions on the definition of artists But yeah, so it's basically it starts in the evening goes on well over into the next day people have sleeping bags Etc. And then it opens up with an art gallery Opening at the event itself, which is an art gallery. So it makes sense This is different for most hackathons in the sense that most hackathons in with some kind of big contest and We wanted to divert from that a little bit and have more of a spirit of cooperation in terms of people like working together They do stuff. So we just ended it that way. There's a location at 319 Scholes it's really great to find places like this because they're spacious and they have a history of Doing cool stuff. They were also the sponsors of the bent festival just a circuit bending festival in New York and That is a dead drop. So that is a sign that you found the place that hackers are invited to We also have several sponsors. It's helping pay for the events in this case We don't focus on them too much. We they're helping us out with paying for food For building out the wire the wireless infrastructure at the space Which is very art gallery ask meaning that the 10th person that signs on drops the internet connection And we measure that we're measuring the success on this by how well people enjoy it and then how Whether it did people enjoyed enough to like spread it out to the rest of the world So it'd be really awesome if there was an art hack day in Berlin, I think So I'll leave you with that thought and that's my time