25-27 NOVEMBER 2021 | Debrecen + Metaverse
NFT DEB Generative Dimensions hackathon and conference explore recent developments in blockchain technologies and artificial neural networks during the three-day event, focusing on their innovative implementation in the arts.
Your hackathon experience:
We cordially invite you to take part in our program. You would work in a group of scientists and creatives lead by a pioneer digital artist. During weekly meetings and an intense day of the finale, you will be developing solutions to the global avian migratory crises through an art project with an actual visual outcome. The work will be minted on a blockchain as a collective creation, exhibited, and auctioned at a later project stage. Our campaign will gain worldwide visibility due to the sheer nature of the subject and by the generous support of leading institutions and organizations.
Birds that migrate through the African-Eurasian Flyway compose three main groups: Waterbirds, Landbirds, and Raptors. These birds face various threats throughout their migration, from habitat loss to illegal killing, most of them being anthropogenic such as pollution or collision course. Change of avian migratory behavior is one of the best-studied phenomena presumably associated with recent climate change, yet to what degree these behavioral changes represent responses to climate warming is still controversial. NFT DEB Generative Dimensions invites scientists, engineers, and artists to the Hortobágy Natural Reserve, the most frequently visited Central-European site by migratory fowl species. We aim to provide original solutions to a large-scale climatic issue by studying the natural phenomena of avian migration. The hackathon will challenge participants to invent creative and sustainable use of NFTs for social and ecological causes. The hackathon, jointly sponsored by the Modern Art Museum and the City of Debrecen, attempts to critically examine collected data of avian migratory behaviors and provide a comprehensive solution with the help of artificial neural networks and blockchain technology.
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