Where technology, science
and AI research meet
artistic innovation
Art, science, and technology were once studied side by side. We are on a mission to restore that exchange in Zurich, bringing together students from different disciplines to create work that none of them could make alone.
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.
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves"