Understand the pieces
Tutorials, explainers, diagrams, workflows, tools, and practical tests.
Browse learning →Public laboratory · field manual · community memory
Learn the tech. Build together. Share what you know.
Art/Tech Hack Nights is a public learning lab for the technologies behind contemporary art—from video and projection to networks, creative code, and community-run infrastructure.
01Learn
02Gather
03Share
OutputCommunity memory + capability
The cycle
Learn. Gather. Share.
Each part feeds the next. Useful knowledge becomes events; events produce contributors and documentation; that memory makes the next experiment easier.
Work in the same room
Hack Nights, workshops, online labs, shows, and collaborative experiments.
Visit the event archive →Circulate capability
Teach a skill, show a project, work an event, or improve the shared record.
Find a pathway →Featured learning
Start with the signal path
A first module for anyone who needs an image or video to move reliably from a file or camera to a screen, stream, or projection system.
Learning module
Video & Media Fundamentals
Build a practical mental model of digital video, signal paths, playback, capture, network media, and projection.
Start module →source→software→signal→surface
Every boundary is a place to test.
Browse technologies
Follow a topic—or cross the wires
The first library is intentionally small. These topic families establish where future modules and community knowledge will live.
Video + Projection
Pixels, signals, playback, projectors, mapping, and media systems.
Explore topic →Audio + Music
Signal flow, interfaces, control, synchronization, and spatial sound.
Explore topic →Network Media
Realtime media, livestreaming, latency, bandwidth, and connection.
Explore topic →Creative Coding
Code as a material for images, systems, performance, and interaction.
Explore topic →Sensors + Physical Computing
Connect bodies, spaces, electronics, and software.
Explore topic →Interactive Installation
Design responsive environments that can survive public use.
Explore topic →XR + Immersive
Coordinate spaces, tracking, spatial media, and shared presence.
Explore topic →AI + Computational Tools
Use computational systems critically and practically in creative work.
Explore topic →Gallery Lab / prototype
Try the media before you arrive.
Preview a local image or short video in a browser-only test surface, then use the venue notes to prepare for a future calibrated model.
- Your preview file stays in your browser.
- The current surface is an interface prototype, not venue calibration.
- Text-based technical context remains available without the viewer.
Events
Gather for the next experiment
Explore past sessions now. New gatherings will appear here as they are scheduled.
No upcoming dates are published yet.
We’re planning the next round of Art/Tech activity.
Beyond the Platforms
Who owns the spaces where culture gathers?
Explore tools, protocols, and governance questions for cultural infrastructure that communities can understand, operate, shape, and leave.
Enter the field guideParticipation
A community is made of many kinds of contribution
Professional credentials are not the price of entry. Bring a workflow, a question, a project, a pair of hands, or an interest in learning.
Origins and support
From workshop series to shared public resource
Art/Tech Hack Nights began as a workshop series supported by the 2025 Urbana Arts Grant. This site carries that work forward as an independent home for learning, experimentation, events, and shared resources.
Learn about the project →Stay connected
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