2026
Zurich, Switzerland
Bringing together 80 top students and recent graduates from art and technology to build at the intersection of creativity and innovation.
In 1843, Ada Lovelace described computation as a system capable of weaving patterns, comparing the Analytical Engine to the Jacquard loom. She understood computation not only as calculation, but as a cultural and expressive machine.
ArtTech Hack builds on this lineage: treating AI systems not just as technical artifacts, but as structures that shape perception, meaning, and agency. By bringing contemporary AI research into dialogue with artistic practices, the hackathon revisits a foundational insight of computing, that abstraction and imagination have always been intertwined.
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves"