InnovArt 2026: Art and Technology Hack Day

art · design · iot ·
Location: Online

Website: TBA  Discord: https://discord.gg/wcKuBW5CuF  Email: TBA Book publication: Your project will be featured in a book in the Binnovative Innovation Book Series.   About The Challenge InnovArt is an international student led hackathon for anyone who creates, views, analyzes, or performs the arts. It is open to a broad range of artistic disciplines including music, fine arts (visual and plastic arts), performing arts, design (fashion, textile, interior, exterior, industrial), and architecture. InnovArt is intended to bring together artists, performers, designers, fans, curators, software hackers, data enthusiasts, and hardware engineers, and encourage interaction and collaboration across boundaries. It helps inspire your artistic intelligence with technology and exhibit innovative artifacts.   InnovArt welcomes anyone of all ages and all artistic/technical skills, from limited experience to advanced.  Entry is free. Expected project topics include, but are not limited to:

Developing and improving creative skills 

Teaching creative skills and training/guiding creative processes

Analyzing, interpreting, processing, enhancing and generating artistic expressions

Analyzing, exploring and discovering artistic techniques

Boosting artistic collaboration and art mashups

Personalizing artistic expressions and experience

Exhibiting, sharing, disseminating, discovering and curating artwork

Explaining and narrating artistic expressions

Developing and customizing the equipment, instruments and tools for art

Engineering venues and environment for the exhibition and performance of art

Advancing interactivity and immersion in art

Promoting and facilitating adaptive art 

Reinforcing and transforming communication through art

Enhancing learning/education with art

Improving feedback for artists

Exploring and expanding artistic theories, languages and vocabulary

Preserving, revitalizing and restoring artwork and art techniques

Promoting and expanding art awareness

Engaging communities in creative process

Addressing authenticity, ownership and copyright of art assets

Exploring and enhancing relaxation, mindfulness and therapeutic aspects of art

Solutions can take many different forms such as apps, games, websites/services, media, devices, robots, UI/UX, immersive technology (AR/VR), haptics, wearables, data collection, data analysis, data visualization, audio/images/video processing, sensory/spatial signal processing, 3-dimensional modeling/printing, machine learning/AI, NFT/crypto, math modeling, and algorithms. Book chapter publication: We will publish a book that features the projects presented at InnovArt 2026. Selected participants will be invited to extend their project summaries and publish them as book chapters. We are planning to publish this book as a part of the Binnovative Innovation Book Series.    InnovArt is hosted by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts. Organizers:
Konomi Karube

Naomi McCreary 

Hanna Suzuki (Co-chair)

Alyssa Yasuhara (Co-chair)

Rimi Yoshikawa (Co-chair)

Ended
Dates:

Sept. 4, 2025 - Jan. 3, 2026

Organisation:

Binnovative

Location:

Online

Prizes:

$0

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