Generic Conference Man
On Tuesday 20th January I was in Hull for Digital Utopias. I was originally going as a regular attendee but was invited at the last minute by Alex McLean to take part in A Yorkshire Hack, which was an informal relaxed space for hacking. I was in a hackathon with him a couple of weeks earlier at Hack the City, so jumped at the chance to do some more!
Like Hack The City there wasn’t really any agenda or goals for the day. We had access to a bunch of data to play with but I wanted to make something that related to the day itself. Upon arriving I looked for opportunities to work with the event. Could I access data about attendees? Were there any devices in the venue that I could re-appropriate? Was there a 3D printer or 3D scanner that I could use to recreate objects or attendees? I also thought about hijacking the #artsdigital hashtag but was quickly shot down by the Arts Council England Twitter account (nice work!).