InnovArt 2027: Art and Technology Hack Day

We are back! Following the great success of InnovArt 2026, we are excited to welcome you to this year's edition: InnovArt 2027. Website: https://innovart-hack.com Discord: https://discord.gg/wcKuBW5CuF Email: InnovArt.Hack@gmail.com Instagram: TBA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/15038034/ 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 is supported by Binnovative, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts. Event Overview Format: Fully online Entry fee: Free Participation: Individuals and teams Eligibility: Open to participants of all ages and technical backgrounds. No previous hackathon experience is required. Project period: Participants may work on their projects at any time before the submission deadline. Project submission deadline: 12pm on January 2 (Sat), 2027, EST Presentation registration deadline: 12pm on January 2 (Sat), 2027, EST Online project presentations: January 3 (Sun), 2027, EST Awards: 15+ awards recognize projects across a wide range of categories. Publication opportunity: Selected participants will be invited to publish book chapters about their projects in the Binnovative Innovation Book series. Merchandise: Celebrate your InnovArt experience with official merch! Purchases help support future InnovArt events. Expected Project Topics 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 * Integrating scientific, environmental and other data into artistic expression 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 * Transforming artistic expressions across media and sensory modalities * Reinforcing and transforming communication through art * Enhancing learning/education with art * Understanding and enhancing audience experience, engagement and participation in art * 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 Publication We plan to publish a book that features selected projects presented at InnovArt 2027. Award recipients and other selected participants will be invited to extend their project abstracts and publish them as book chapters through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. For your reference, see the book published in InnovArt 2026. Organizers * Naomi McCreary (Co-chair) * Hanna Suzuki (Co-chair) * Alyssa Yasuhara * Rimi Yoshikawa (Co-chair)