Tate Modern celebrates London Tech Week with 24-hour hackathon

Celebrating the launch of a new online art platform, as well as the first ever London Technology Week, 140 creative folk from around the UK are expected to take over the Tate Modern for a 24-hour hackathon.

What The Space will actually do is commission a range of projects - large and small - across a range of art forms and industries including, creative and digital, technology and coding, art and culture sectors.

It's won the support of Tim Berners-Lee, David Hockney and the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.

Speaking about the project Berners-Lee said: “Artists wake us up to all that happens in the world. The Space can make that happen on the web."
Commenting on the launch and the ambitious hack, Boris Johnson said: “On the eve of London's first ever Tech Week, It is absolutely right that The Space launches at Tate Modern with the world's largest art hack.

“Well done to The Space for offering audiences and artists from technical, digital, creative industry and traditional arts the chance to develop new art forms and new digital art.”
London Technology Week - which starts today - comprises a week of face-to-face events and activities for the technology and digital community.

Event formats will be many and varied from conferences and workshops to meet-ups, hackathons, demos and open houses and, if you're curious, you can find more information here.

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