Dance Hackathon
The New Mexico Dance Hackathon aims to foster innovative collaborations between artists, technologists, and dancers, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of movement and technology.
By bringing together diverse creative disciplines, the program seeks to unlock new artistic possibilities, enhance community engagement, and inspire fresh approaches to both the arts and STEAM fields.
The hackathon’s impact extends beyond individual participants, contributing to the enrichment of New Mexico’s creative ecosystem and making the arts more accessible to the broader public through interactive and transformative experiences.
The 2025 New Mexico Dance Hackathon will be an opportunity for dance and technology artists to connect, collaborate, and explore the relationship and intersection of movement and tech-based art. This project is designed to foster creativity, experimentation, and interdisciplinary exchange, and encourages participants to push boundaries and take risks to propose new ways that dance and technology can be integrated and presented.
Starting February 2025, and ending June 2025, artists and teams will be able to deepen their collaborative relationships, as well as their ability to create a cohesive project at the end of the five months. Participants will go through five stages of the Hackathon including the first Mixer occurring February 15th 1-5pm at UNM ARTSLab and the Visiting Guest Artist who will give specific feedback and advice to artists in April 2025.
Building on the success of the 2024 Hackathon, this iteration aims to expand the timeline and depth of creative engagement and collaboration. Teams will have an extended period of four months to develop their work, with guidance from a Visiting Guest Artist, the UNM ARTSLab creative team; Stewart Copeland, Valery Estabrook, and Amanda Hamp, with support from the Dance Hackathon Coordinator; Madrone Matysiak.
The New Mexico Dance Hackathon is sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The New Mexico Dance Hackathon Mixer:
The Mixer is the first event of the 2025 New Mexico Dance Hackathon – an afternoon where participants will meet, exchange ideas, and form teams in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Each tech artist or team will have the opportunity to show current work and practice, and every dance or movement artist will get to interact with different tech and tech artists as a way to kick off the full 2025 New Mexico Dance Hackathon.
Saturday, February 15th 2025
1pm-5pm
UNM ARTSLab | 131 Pine St NE
