SAAI–Super Artistic AI–Factory is the first contemporary art based hackathon on artificial intelligence.
SAAI Factory calls for hackers, artists, coders, designers, tech evangelists, creatives, and developers from all disciplines to explore artificial intelligence as a means and field of artistic practice.
Participants from art and tech will be brought together through online social encounter and match-making to form international teams.
Internationally renown and dedicated mentors of the field will give talks, workshops and guidance throughout the hackathon.
All partaking creators, project ideas and prototypes will be presented at the International Summer Festival in Hamburg.
1. Be Excellent To Each Other
We live in a very diverse environment. We require consent to withdraw from any discrimination of any type or form. Any behavior or presentation that objectifies or belittles others will be halted, with the presenters immediately disqualified and removed from the event.
2. Art and Tech / Skills and Ideas
Participants from Art and Tech are invited to register with their portfolio indicating either their project ideas, or skills and knowledge.
We encourage to sing up as individuals rather than already established teams. Because we think one of the main objectives in this hack is the opportunity to connect and work together in an international team. In a mixture of online social interaction, virtual bar camps, workshops and lectures, and physical events at certain locations we will help building up teams and bringing ideas and skills to work.
3. Dates and Timing
4. Place
The Hackathon will happen as a worldwide and simultaneously organized event. Although mainly online conducted, we are working to provide local hubs in a couple of places around the world. If it is possible to gather, and makes sense to you, you are invited to show and connect physically. (A full list of venues will be shown under the tab ’Updates’)
5. Eligibility and Registration
Participants must be of legal age in their respective countries.
The Hackathon is open to a global audience.
Registering for the Hackathon is free of charge.
Participants are to ensure that the personal information provided upon registration online is true and accurate.
Individuals may join more than one team.
Participants shall bear all expenses in relation to their participation in the Hackathon. They acknowledge that they have no right to compensation or reimbursement of any kind.
6. Submission
Before the submission deadline, September 14th, teams will submit working links to their github repositories for the judges to be able to verify/test the application.
As part of the judging criteria, teams may be required to show their projects to the panel of judges. This will be done via Zoom screen-sharing.
Teams are strongly encouraged to present a demo of what you have built. This demo may include a pitch, demo, and may take any electronic format that can be presented over Zoom.
Teams are encouraged to present what you have done even if your hack is broken or you weren’t able to finish.
It's okay if you didn't finish your hack. Demoing your team’s progress and product is a chance to share with others what you learned and what you tried to build— the value is in your ideas!
Winners may be announced on SAAI Factory’s and its partner’s websites and/or social media channels. We may require winners to send us their personal images and/or other limited personal information, in order for us to announce the results. By participating in the hackathon, participants agree to the collection and usage of personal data that they have provided to us for the purpose of announcing the winner of the hackathon on public channels.
7. Judging Criteria
The Hackathon will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by SAAI Factory.
One of the main goals is to recognize the potential of the projects for further development and subsequent presentation to the public. Selected projects and prototypes from the Hackathon will be shown in subsequent showcases and exhibitions around the world, such as the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the AI Biennial in Essen, the KAUST University in Saudi Arabia, or online at nexmuseum.io.
Entries will be judged on the following criteria, and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges:
Creativity and Originality
How unique and creative is the project from an artistic perspective? How original and innovative are the depicted concept, vision, and visual theme? What are the references to contemporary art?
Art and Technology
How effective is the infusion of technology to enhance the work? Does it integrate deep learning in an innovative, unexpected way? Is it showing a new approach towards data input, data output or dataset ? The level of complexity of the usage of AI/ML/DL.
Potential for Further Development - Feasibility
Does the proposed prototype have the potential to grow and deliver the imagined result in the post-production stage? Are the team’s skills able to maintain and improve the project? Did they utilize the tools in the best way?
Clarity and Quality
Is the depicted theme clear to the viewer? How well is the concept reflected on the piece? Does the artwork stand on its own as a complete and outstanding work of art? Does it work outside of the competition ?
Inspiration
Can the project inspire other ideas?
Scale of Awesome
Something in the project that is beyond the expected, surprising, and exciting.
8. Intellectual Property Rights.
All submissions remain the intellectual property of the teams and individuals that developed them. We require that all code written in this competition will be made accessible through a public repository. By submitting an entry, entrants agree that SAAI Factory will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry for judging the entry. Entrants agree that SAAI Factory shall have the right to promote the submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicizing the hackathon and its results, during the Hackathon Period and thereafter. Some Submission components may be displayed to the public. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the judges for screening and evaluation. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, entrants represent and warrant that submitted content is an original work, and is not in breach of any intellectual rights of any other party.
Six projects will be selected by the jury for post-production. These projects and prototypes from the hackathon will be shown in subsequent showcases and exhibitions around the world, such as ZKM – Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, 1st AI-Biennale in Essen, KAUST University in Thuwal, online at nexmuseum.io, and others.
How it works: You can register with skills or ideas. We encourage you to build international teams, consisting of artists and coders, max 5 persons. Team building should be finished by August 6th, 2021.
Local hackathons and international interim presentations happen on August 20/21, 2021.
Final deadline is due on September 14th, 2021.
$25,000 in prizes
Prize for Interaction
Best Project Creating Interaction between Humans, AI/ML, Datasets and Neural Networks
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Prize for Interoperability
Best Project Challenging Interoperability or Synesthesia between Text, Music, Image and Motion
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Prize for Momentum of Creation
Best Project Identifying the Momentum of Creation, Inspiration Coming Alive
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Prize for Advanced AI
Best Project Integrating Advanced Machine Learning Knowledge
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Prize for AI, Art and Society
Best Project Concerning AI/ML, Arts and Society
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Prize for Awesome
Best Project Being Just Awesome
• $2,000 for Post-Production
• Presentation in the upcoming exhibition series
• Blog post featuring your project
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
SAAI Factory Award for Participation (150)
Reward for Each Participant
• A unique SAAI Factory NFT
Audience Award @Public Voting
Project Receiving most of the Public Votes
• $1,000
Before the submission deadline, September 14th, teams will submit working links to their github repositories for the judges to be able to verify/test the application.
As part of the judging criteria, teams may be required to show their projects to the panel of judges. This will be done via Zoom screen-sharing.
Teams are strongly encouraged to present a demo of what you have built. This demo may include a pitch, demo, and may take any electronic format that can be presented over Zoom.
Teams are encouraged to present what you have done even if your hack is broken or you weren’t able to finish.
It's okay if you didn't finish your hack. Demoing your team’s progress and product is a chance to share with others what you learned and what you tried to build— the value is in your ideas!
Winners may be announced on SAAI Factory’s and its partner’s websites and/or social media channels. We may require winners to send us their personal images and/or other limited personal information, in order for us to announce the results. By participating in the hackathon, participants agree to the collection and usage of personal data that they have provided to us for the purpose of announcing the winner of the hackathon on public channels.
Mohamed Elhoseiny
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Visual Computing Center at KAUST
Bettina Steinbrügge
Director at Kunstverein Hamburg, Professor at University of Arts Hamburg
Florian Dohmann
Co-Founder and Chief Creative of Birds on Mars
Archana Prasad
Art, Tech, Community Researcher, Founder of Jaaga.in & Dara.network
Ludger Brümmer
Professor for Composition and Digital Media, Director of the Hertz Lab at ZKM
Christoph Faulhaber
Artist and Director
Luba Elliott
AI Art curator
Barry Reese
Insight & Data, Capgemini Germany, Munich
Lia Coleman
Artist, AI researcher, Educator at Rhode Island School of Design
Célia Bugniot
Head of Business at Veesual
