And the winners of the first hackathon for the arts in Miami, announced Sunday night, are...
* First place went to Team 7: Alexandra Saba (age 19),
Alfonso Guerra (age 48) from Apokalypse Software Corp, and Chris Scott (age 24) from Gnome Labs. The team won won $5,000 in cash for its geolocation based app that
allowed users to easily locate works of art scattered throughout the city and
access information related to each piece for the Temporary Contemporary exhibit. (Photo of team shown at right). http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/tc/
* 1st runner-up (2nd place) was Daniela Cadena from SoShial Corp, and Jose M. Infante. 2nd runner-up (3rd place) went to Wilmar Siqueira. Both of these teams will each receive $1,000 in cash from the Knight Foundation.
Hack The Bass was a social entrepreneurial weekend-long event put on by LAB Miami, the Bass Museum of Art and Knight Foundation to develop a mobile app for Bass’ Temporary Contemporary art project, where various public art will begin surfacing starting Nov. 2 in Miami Beach -– in parks, on the sides of buildings, in stores, etc. Bass and the LAB Miami issued a challenge to developers and designers to work together to create an application that will map the public artworks as well as provide information and interactivity, according to LAB Miami. "We thought it would be great to bring together the tech community to build something for the public and that helped spread art," said Wifredo Fernandez, one of the co-founders of LAB Miami. Read an earlier Starting Gate post about it here.
Ten teams competed in Hack the Bass. The winners will also be honored at the debut of the art project, where the app may be used. All of the participants will be receiving one week of free co-working space at LAB Miami. Congratulations teams!
This was the first hackathon for the arts but it won't be the last, pledged Boris Hirmas Said, Florida International University's entrepreneur in residence and a speaker and judge at the hackathon.
(Thanks to Pabla Ayala of CVOX Group for tweeting up a storm at #HacktheBass and providing the information and photos)
Photos show, top, Briam Rodriguez presenting his augmented reality app; middle, the second-place winning team; and at bottom, the judges deliberating after the presentations Sunday night.
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