FYI for anyone techie (or not) or interested in GLAM. :)
Cheers, Katie
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dylan Kinnett dylan@nocategories.net Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:10 PM Subject: I would like to invite you to attend a hackathon To:
I would like to invite you to attend a hackathon at the Walters Art Museum. Please, if you know anybody who likes hackathons, help spread the word?
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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 Baltimore’s, first art museum hackathon. ****
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This event will be at the Walters Art Museum from July 27–29. On Friday evening, July 27, staff from Baltimore’s museum community will present specific challenges or ideas that they would like solved—from 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 museum’s galleries for inspiration throughout the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, July 29, leaders of the technology and innovation communities will judge which teams were the most successful. ****
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*Thanks to the generosity of the Abell Foundation $5,000 will be awarded in prizes!*
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*Judges:*
- Mario Armstrong, Digital Lifestyle Expert, CNN, NPR, WYPR - Greg Cangialosi, Managing Director, Nucleus Ventures, LLC - *Sid Meier*, Director of Creative Development at Firaxis - Sheri Parks, Associate Professor, University of Maryland - Murray Taylor, President, Digital Steamworks
Where:****
- The Walters Art Museum. 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201
When:****
- Friday, July 27–Sunday, July 29 - Friday, July 27, 5–9 p.m. - Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m.–midnight - Sunday, July 29, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Price:****
- Free
*Registration:*
- *Advance registration is required at **http://artbytes.eventbrite.com/*http://artbytes.eventbrite.com/