Award ceremony of the Coding Culture Hackathon

On April 7, 2018, the winners of the »Coding Culture Hackathon« were awarded at the Goethe-Institut in Mumbai.

The »Coding Culture Hackathon«, jointly organized by the Goethe-Institut Mumbai and ZKM in Mumbai on February 1 and 2, 2018, marked the pre-running event of the exhibition »Open Codes. Digital Culture Techniques«, which has been on display in Mumbai since April 6, 2018. The exhibition is conceived as a satellite exhibition to the exhibition »Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds« at ZKM Karlsruhe and can be seen in Mumbai until June 2, 2018. 

A total of ten teams took part in the hackathon, which brought together cultural institutions in Mumbai with the programming scene for the first time.

On April 7, 2018, a jury consisting of representatives of the CSMVS Museum (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India), the Dr. Bhau Dji Lad City Museum in Mumbai, the artist platform pad.ma, the Goethe Institute Mumbai and the ZKM,  has chosen the winning team »Morpheus« of the project »KHOJ - Key to Historical Object Juxtaposition«.

Morpheus' system, based on Google Inception/ Tensorflow, makes it easy to categorize large quantities of poorly or not at all sorted images, both for the museum and the public. The team trained the artificial neural network with 4,500 known images and performed a categorization using color palettes and hash values.

From May 10–13, 2018, the winning team will travel to the ZKM for Europe's second largest hacker meeting, the Goulash Programmers Night. Congratulations! 

In addition to experimental apps and websites, the participants developed works of art in the field of tension between code and art.

The Hackathon linked established cultural institutions such as the CSMVS (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India) and the Dr. Bhau Dji Lad City Museum in Mumbai with the Indian coder scene to try out new forms of cooperation.