Clear your calendar - It's going down! Art Challenge kicks off on January 22nd, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Central Working Whitechapel (69 Mile End Road) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!
The ART x TECH hackathon is back. You have 24 hours to disrupt the art industry.
This time around, we bring you real challenges experienced by the art world. All you have to do is solve them. Or pitch your own art x tech idea.
Join fellow art professionals, entrepreneurs, artists and hackers to create a new art business in 24 hours. Come up with new ways to fund, make, share and enjoy art. Receive coaching from art entrepreneurs, pitch to experienced industry experts and develop solutions to the art world's most pressing problems.
Prizes include digital artworks from Sedition and a consultation from Magnific, a growth hacking agency founded by Vincent Dignan.
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So prepare for an exciting 24 hours:
 - Create marketplaces to co-curate exhibitions
 - Use augmented and virtual reality to create next generation museum guides
 -  Develop mobile tags to identify fake art works
 - And much more
FRIDAY 22nd January
6-6.30pm Arrive
7pm Introduction & Partner Challenges presentation
7.30pm Pitch your idea
8.30pm Form teams and start work
10pm Finish for the night
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SATURDAY 23rd January
9am Arrive & Breakfast
11am-1pm Coaches & Mentors available
1pm Lunch
5pm Final presentations
7pm Winners announced & Finish
Culturate is a non-profit organisation working to encourage technology-based innovation in the arts industry. We organise panel discussions, run hackathons and write about the emerging art and technology community. More details here.
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