The aim of the weekend is to encourage the hackers to take some of the masses of data living on the internet, or even create some of their own (in one case with goldfish), and present it in new, unusual ways, to make something from it – a piece of music, an artwork, a machine, a game – something that brings the data to life.
Dr Greg Gibbons, an expert in 3D printing at Warwick University said customers would soon be able to walk into a shop and have their own jewellery, artworks or machine parts printed.
The duo has done a lot of artwork with machines in the past, with each project constantly straddling the fence between pro- and anti-robot positions.
That's because these large, imposing, artwork-covered machines were driven out of pubs, cafes and arcades by video games, and all but one of the manufacturers - Chicago-based Stern Pinball - abandoned the trade.
Mr. Schiffmacher's personal artifacts are the backbone of the collection; he donated tattoo machines, artwork and ephemera like the skin from the arm of a Boston whaler, preserved in formaldahyde, which was not buried in the hopes that its tattoos would help identify him.
It's probably too early to expect sections in our modern art museums to be reserved for novel artwork generated by machines, but anything is possible in the future — you heard it here first.
"Apart from the artwork, the whole pinball machine – the cabinet, the playfield, the software and the electronics – has been designed by me," says Ortuno.
Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi are artists and engineers who combine their skills to produce hybrid human-machine artworks that have given us such wild futuristic inventions as a robot arm DJ and turning human faces into twitchy drum machines.
Look up information on sand casting or foam inclusion casting if you are interested in casting machine parts or artwork.
The art is produced by the repetitive rhythm the machine makes and the artwork turns out beautifully.
These companies will be helping small businesses manage everything from finance to staffing, increasing communication in healthcare, teaching through VR, using machines to create artwork, hot-patching your mobile apps, making kids' lunches easier and enabling athletes to get trained smarter.
