over 1 year ago
Showcases in 2022 coming up
Dear Hackathon Participants,
Even though the Hackathon phase itself is over for now, the SAAI Factory will continue to exist. In 2022 the SAAI Factory will appear with exhibitions at different international locations. Within these exhibitions we want to present the projects stemming from SAAI surrounded by an artistic and curatorial exploration of AI Art. More information about the upcoming showcases will follow soon. We’re looking forward to the new year with the SAAI Factory.
Thank you all for making the SAAI Factory possible and participating with your great projects.
We want to wish you wonderful holidays and a happy…
over 1 year ago
And the winner is...
The judges have weighed in, and we're excited to share the news! Go to the SAAI Factory - Hackathon on Art and AI gallery to congratulate the winners and check out all of the awesome submissions.
Every participant in this hackathon will receive a reward for participation in form of a unique SAAI Factory NFT. If interested, please, send us your Ethereum wallet addres, and we will transfer the token.
Even though the competition is over, you don't have to stop coding. Update your portfolio to inform your followers about new projects and get feedback from fellow hackers.
Questions?
If…
over 1 year ago
Award Winners I Congratulations from SAAI Factory
Dear All!
We hereby want to congratulate the winning teams! You’ve put in so much work and passion into your projects. Your projects inspired us and built a basis for the SAAI Factory as a network and Total work of Art.
We are currently preparing to finalize the announcement on devpost, meanwhile, here’s the results from the hackathon and the jury session:
Prize for Interaction: Smart Hans
Honorable Mention: My AI Artist-Collaborator
Prize for Interoperability: The HUB
Honorable Mention: Magic Brush
Prize for Momentum of Creation: Principles of the Theory of Wealth
Honorable Mention: Art愛 / ArtAI
…
over 1 year ago
SAAI Award Ceremony Information
Dear Hackathon Participants,
The Award Ceremony is getting closer and we want to inform you about a few details. As we will celebrate at the Woods Arts Institute in Hamburg, a virtual possibility to attend is still given as you can join via Zoom!
Especially for the shortlisted Teams it would be great to attend virtually, if you can! Please make sure you have one of your team members prepared to represent the team, in case you win a prize!
We will start at 5pm (Berlin Time) on Friday, November 12th. (4pm UTC!) Most probably we…
over 1 year ago
SAAI Award Ceremony Sneak Info
Dear Hackathon participants,
In order to celebrate this enriching experience we will host an award ceremony. Surrounded by an exhibition about the SAAI Factory at the Woods Arts Institute in Hamburg we will announce the winners of this hackathon and celebrate the success during a hybrid event.
The exhibition will most probably run from November 12th to November 14th. The detailled dates will follow soon!
Looking forward to welcoming you all - in presence or virtually.
All best
The SAAI Factory Team
over 1 year ago
Shortlist Announcement
Dear Participants!
After a long and and intense consultation the Jury has decided on a shortlist. There are gonna be main awards and honorable mentions in each of the six categories, as well as four special praises. These projects/teams are the current nominees:
Art愛 / ArtAI
ATHENA Art Assistant
Computer vision, the blind men and the elephant
Creative Quantum AI
Folk Dance Classification with AI
GANCREATE
MagicBrush
Mosada AI
Mozdan - AI Eclipse of Diversity
Music Therapy with AI
My AI Art-Collaborator
Principles of the Theory of Wealth
SentiMo
Smart Hans
THE HUB
Transpondancer
Congratulations to all teams!…
over 1 year ago
Public voting is now open - Audience Award
It's your turn to pick the Audience Award winner! Browse 'SAAI Factory - Hackathon on Art and AI' submission gallery, click on your favorite, and vote. Be sure to spread the word via your social networks, too!
Please note, as per the Devpost terms of service, you may not tamper with the vote process through manual or automated means, or attempt to compensate voters, at risk of disqualification. Find out more about public voting here.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 1 year ago
Late submissions will end tomorrow!
Dear Participants!
You have a chance to submit or update your submissions until tomorrow, Friday, Sep. 17th, 11pm UTC.
Best Wishes,
Christoph and Mohamed (SAAI)
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 1 year ago
Late Submissions is now on
Dear You All!
We wanted to let you know that we hope to get as many of your valued works and projects on board as possible, so we just activated the option for LATE SUBMISSIONS:
https://devpost.com/submit-to/12696-saai-factory-hackathon-on-art-and-ai/late-submission
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 1 year ago
Final call for submissions
There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for SAAI Factory - Hackathon on Art and AI.
over 1 year ago
Approaching the Deadline!
Dear All,
there are only a few days left until the deadline. We would like to ask you to check if you have all the submission materials ready.
Please also remember that the jury can only review projects that have a 5 minute video!
We have now opened the gallery to show some of the first submissions. Note, this list is not final, and projects can still be updated.
If you need any more help or advise, please contact us.
Thank you all for taking part,
best regards
Christoph
from SAAI
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Questions?
If you have…
over 1 year ago
Information about final submissions
Dear Participiants!
The Hackathon is slowly coming to an end and we are more than excited to receive your final projects and artworks!
Here are some final pieces of information for the submissions:
#1 The submissions will still happen via Devpost in the Submission section.
#2 We ask of you to create a 5-minute video to your submission explaining your project. You can use the same guidelines we've provided you with for the interim presentations. Please be advised: In order to be up for a prize, a explanatory video presenting your work is necessary! The video is easy to incorporate…
over 1 year ago
Info for presenting teams/solo participants!
Hi to all presenting teams!
Soon we'll start with the Interim Presentations. For this we would like for you to give us a quick feedback on whether you're ready and prepared? Please send us an email at info@saai-factory.com with your team/solo name and a quick response!
Also: Please be in the Zoom Space at least half an hour before your presentation so that we can communicate with you there as well.
Zoom:
https://hks-ottersberg.zoom.us/j/93340005560 I Meeting-ID: 933 4000 5560
Here the current timetable:
TIMETABLE FOR INTERIM PRESENTATIONS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21ST 3pm - 7pm UTC
WHERE: HYBRID ZOOM & LOCAL HUBS
3…
over 1 year ago
Program August 20th-August22nd
SAAI FACTORY I Local Hubs I Program August 20th-August22nd
Livestreams from all Local Hubs on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt97Vf7EdRf9x8UUJXq0zFw/videos
Virtual Hackathon on Zoom
https://hks-ottersberg.zoom.us/j/93340005560 I Meeting-ID: 933 4000 5560
Gathertown
https://gather.town/app/h3g5Ngjb0otUShuY/SAAISPACE
Social Wall
https://my.walls.io/SAAI-FACTORY
SAAI Factory I CryptoVoxels
https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/2939
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20TH
WHERE: HYBRID ZOOM & LOCAL HUBS
11am UTC - Opening Local Hub in Riyadh, Alfaisal, Areej Al-Wabil
11:30am UTC - Opening Local Hub in Thuwal, KAUST, Mohamed Elhoseiny
1 pm UTC - Opening Local Hub in Hyderabad, Goethe Zentrum
4 pm UTC - Opening Local Hub in Hamburg, Kampnagel, Christoph Faulhaber
5 pm UTC - Celebratory Opening of virtual…
over 1 year ago
VIRTUAL HACKATHON & LOCAL HUB WEEKEND
Dear Participants!
Tomorrow our local and virtual hackathon weekend will start! The Zoom Space will open at 11am UTC and will be welcomed and opened from our Local Hub in Riyadh.
This is the Link for the entire weekend:
https://hks-ottersberg.zoom.us/j/93340005560
Meeting-ID: 933 4000 5560
Imagine this space as a room for virtual communication and exploring. Lets work together and create some amazing work!
You already received the schedule for the interim presentations, the complete program will follow shortly!
All best,
SAAI Team
over 1 year ago
Virtual Branch of SAAI Factory on CryptoVoxels
Hi, we have started building on CryptoVoxels the SAAI Factory.
You are welcome to participate.
https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/2939
best, Christoph
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.
over 1 year ago
TIMETABLE FOR INTERIM PRESENTATIONS
TIMETABLE FOR INTERIM PRESENTATIONS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21ST 3pm - 7pm UTC
WHERE: HYBRID ZOOM & LOCAL HUBS (Zoom Link follows on Devpost)
3 pm: Welcome notes & Jury Introduction
3:30 pm: Presentation 1 - Solo: Siddharth Anand Srivastav
3:40 pm: Presentation 2 - Solo: Benjamin Bertram
3:50 pm: Presentation 3 - Solo: Muhammad Fathy Rashad
4:00 pm: Presentation 4 - Team: Transpondancer: Lena, Pathi, Yuning, Kiran, Ashish
4:10 pm: Presentation 5 - Team: Radhika and April
4:20 pm: Presentation 6 - Team: Rico, Su
4:30 pm: Presentation 7 - Team: Akshita, Asad, Max, Quasim
4:40-5:00 pm - Short break
5:00…
over 1 year ago
GUIDELINES FOR INTERIM PRESENTATIONS
Hi everyone!
The interim presentation will be useful for the judges to get a first idea of your projects and to see where it's going. We want to leave you to the freedom of your own creative account when it comes to the design of the presentations. Still we would like for you to create your pitch with a rough framework we've provided. (These are similar questions you find when submitting a work on Devpost.)
Time: 5 minutes, make sure that it's short and precise - this is only an interim presentation and not the final submission.
Material:…
over 1 year ago
Reminder to fill out Doodle for Interim presentations (Saturday, 21st) I Deadline: August 17th, 10 AM UTC
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO FILL OUT THE DOODLE! THE DEADLINE IS TUESDAY 10AM UTC.
Hi everyone,
We are getting closer and closer to the Weekend of the Local Hubs. As you already could take from our Hackathon Plan and Dates, we would like to host voluntary Interim presentations on Saturday, 21st. These will happen physically and virtually via Zoom between 3pm and 8pm UTC (Universal Time Zone, please make sure you check what this means for your time zone)!
What to expect?
We want to invite the teams to present their current project progress and pitch their general ideas…
over 1 year ago
Invite to Interim Presentations on August, 21st 3pm-8pm UTC
Hi everyone,
We are getting closer and closer to the Weekend of the Local Hubs. As you already could take from our Hackathon Plan and Dates, we would like to host voluntary Interim presentations on Saturday, 21st. These will happen physically and virtually via Zoom between 3pm and 8pm UTC (Universal Time Zone, please make sure you check what this means for your time zone)!
What to expect?
We want to invite the teams to present their current project progress and pitch their general ideas with the jury present. Each team will have 5 minutes to present and 5 min…
over 1 year ago
Correction: Local Hub Registration - SAAI Factory
Sorry, if our last email caused any confusion on your side!
We would like to correct that: the local hackathons are not a prerequisite for taking part in the overall, virtual hackathon of the SAAI Factory!
The local hackathons are voluntary, they are an offer to those who would like to join in on a physical event, and who would have the chance to visit since they live close to one of the local hubs. The registration for a local hub is only mandatory for being able to participate at a local hackathon.
Again, the local hackathons are not a…
over 1 year ago
Local hub registration
Hey everyone!
In less than two weeks the official hackathon weekend will take place.
From August 20th to 22nd we want to invite you all to join our local hubs in Hamburg, Zurich, Lagos, Thuwas, Riyadh, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad und San Francisco.
Registration for participation is mandatory. Since there are only a few places avaliable in each location and local hub, we would like you to send us an email to register. The limits of places per location are the following:
- Lagos: 5 pers.
- Riyadh: 20 pers.
- Thuwal: 15 pers.
- Mumbai: 8 pers.
- Bangalore: 10 pers.
- Hyderabad: 10 pers.
- Zurich:…
over 1 year ago
Last Chance to join Symposium and Panel today
Hi, here's the last chance to join the last events of our kick off / symposium, now!
Zoom Link for All days: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97892294271
Gathertown link for social Hours on select times for All days (check schedule below, 2 hours daily),: https://gather.town/app/h3g5Ngjb0otUShuY/SAAISPACE
Youtube Live streaming (August 7th): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUueusdnJ0
All the best,
Christoph
over 1 year ago
SAAI symposium Panel Discussion August 8th 5pm-6pm UTC
Thanks all for being a fantastic audience over the past two days. We are looking for the third and last exciting day.
A small reminder that there is an exciting panel discussion concluding tomorrow event from 5 pm-6pm UTC / 1pm-2pm EST, 7pm-8pm CEST, 8pm-9pm AST, featuring
Panel Members
- Sean Blagsvedt (CEO at Dara.Network)
- Negar Rostamzadeh (Google Brain)
- Célia Bugniot (Head of Business at Veesual),
- Lia Coleman (AI Artist & Researcher, Adjunct Professor at RISD)
- Luba Elliott (AI Art Curator)
- Isaac Sullivan (Artist, Dubai).
Panel Moderators:
- Mohamed Elhoseiny (Assistant Professor, KAUST)
- Christoph Faulhaber (Artist, Hamburg)
It will be…
over 1 year ago
Invitation to join Gather.town
To all participants:
We from the SAAI Team want to encourage you to join us during our Social hours on Gather.Town. Gather.town is a great virtual platform to start conversations. You get the chance to meet your team there, maybe new teammates or ask anyone from the SAAI Team something about the hackathon.
Gathertown link: https://gather.town/app/h3g5Ngjb0otUShuY/SAAISPACE
Social hours today (August, 7th):
UTC: 8pm-10pm
PT: 1pm-3pm
ET: 4pm-6pm
CEST: 10pm-12
AST: 4pm-6pm
Hopefully see you then!
over 1 year ago
Reminder: SAAI Kick-Off / Symposium
Hello to Everybody!
We wanted to remind you that the second day of our Kick-Off / Symposium event is starting in 30 min, 3:00pm UTC!
Zoom Link for All days: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97892294271
https://saai.devpost.com/details/symposium
Best, Christoph
over 1 year ago
SAAI Factory August 8th: Zoom and Facebook Streaming.
Dear Participants, please see the attached zoom and Facebook streaming links (open for everyone)
Zoom Link for All days: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97892294271
Facebook Live streaming: https://www.facebook.com/10158364499525872/videos/781002019236329
Best,
Mohamed
over 1 year ago
Reminder: SAAI Kick-Off / Symposium
Hi everyone!
We wanted to remind you that the Kick-Off / Symposium event starting tomorrow! You can access the Symposium any time through the Link you find in the section "Symposium & Workshop Program".
In this symposium we want to open up the creative process with a stream of ideas and mind-boggling examples. We invited experts and pioneers that enable the field of Artificial Intelligence to go further and expand to share their passion, knowledge and inspiration with the audience. With a series of events we want to offer participants as well as anyone interested in Art and AI a…
over 1 year ago
Registration-Stop: Workshop `aiXdesign ́ Creative Kitchen
--- This workshop is already full, please take a look at other workshops available during the Symposium ---
Hi everyone!
Within the SAAI Factory Symposium next week there will be a workshop offer on Design and AI hosted by Peter Kabel and his students from the HAW university in Hamburg. This specific workshop is created for designers and artists who want to dive in working with AI.
Since this workshop is restricted to 25 persons, we would like you to send us an email at info@saai-factory.com (Subject: aixdesign registration) and we will then send you a password for the…
over 1 year ago
Teambuilding progress
Hi everyone!
As the Hackathon is moving forward we are getting more and more excited for your projects and submissions. We noticed that there are still some solo participants out there looking for a team. We'd like to offer you our support in finding possible matches ? Would you wish for a matchmaking-event of some sort?
You can contact us via info@saai-factory.com, if you have any concerns.
For those who already have found teams, why don't you leave us your feedback in the discussion section!
Thank you all!
The SAAI Factory Team
over 1 year ago
Symposium and Workshop program is out now!
Hi everyone!
We want to share the official Symposium program with you! You can find it on our Devpost-Site under the section "Symposium & Workshops". In this symposium we want to open up the creative process with a stream of ideas and mind-boggling examples. We invited experts and pioneers that enable the field of Artificial Intelligence to go further and expand to share their passion, knowledge and inspiration with the audience. With a series of events we want to offer participants as well as anyone interested in Art and AI a spectrum of current perspectives and developments within the field.…
over 1 year ago
Invitation to join our local hubs
Hi everyone!
It now is less than a month to the official hackathon weekend. We want to invite you all to join our local hubs from August 20th to 22nd. Local hubs will be provided in:
Hamburg, Zurich, Lagos, Abuja, Thuwal, Riyadh, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, San Francisco.
In order to prepare everything for you, please send us an email via info@saai-factory.com (Subject: Local Hub) stating your full name, location and in which local hub you'd be interested in.
Thank you all!
The SAAI Factory Team
over 1 year ago
INVITATION TO TAKE PART IN VIDEO CAMPAIGN
Hi to all participants,
The hackathon is in the making and we're happy to have you here! Currently we want to spread the word even more through social media, for an audience or maybe other future participants! Since we have so many interesting participants coming from various backgrounds in the field, we'd love for all of you to help us with a video campaign. Our plan is, to have various participants represent their idea of AI & ART in a small 10 sec video. We'd be so happy to have as many of you represented as…
over 1 year ago
SAAI Factory Office Hours
Dear Participants,
In order to support you during the hackathon, we have created the following office hours on Thursday, July 15th:
- 9:00 am, Berlin Time (UTC+2): General Questions: Christoph + 1P
- 9:30 am, Berlin Time (UTC+2): Technical Questions: Mohamed + 1P
Please, mark them on your calendar and save this Zoom link for joining: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97173096605
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on Slack Workspace (main) or the discussion forum.
almost 2 years ago
Join our SLACK channel - Fill the Registration Form
Dear Participants,
We are excited to welcome you as a part of the SAAI Factory Hackathon. Yaaay, our community is growing! However, to make our communication easier, we strongly recommend you to join our Slack Workspace (link). You will be able to be updated with
- announcements
- group discussions
- events
- mentors/instructors.
We suggest you download the app on your mobile to stay alert on all activities.
Also, you are kindly required to fill the Registration Form. This allows us to find and suggest potential team members to you. You can register with either skills or ideas. However,…