{"id":6386,"date":"2025-03-03T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-the-itp-stupid-hackathon-in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:00:01","slug":"news-the-itp-stupid-hackathon-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-the-itp-stupid-hackathon-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The ITP “Stupid” Hackathon In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Annual ITP Stupid Hackathon has been covered in The Washington Square News<\/a> and Futurism<\/a> for our students’ wacky, playful projects.<\/p>\n

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Hunkering down at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn for a whopping 12 hours, a group of NYU students, alongside creatives from peer schools and local hacker organizations, put their heads together on Saturday to engineer absurd inventions \u2014 a device that binds you to your last pinky promise and a table that curses when you lean on it, just to name a few. These bizarre devices target oddly specific \u2014 and stupid \u2014 goals.<\/p>\n

Organized by the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU\u2019s ITP Stupid Hackathon served as a space for underground experimentation and a playground for silliness. The event challenged participants to use different forms of digital and physical technology to design the stupidest inventions possible.<\/p>\n

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\n\"Shaky<\/p>\n
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Shaky Table by Interactive Media Arts students Audrey Guo, Mumu Li, Charles Zhang and Link Wang<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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IMA students Audrey Guo (not pictured), Mumu Li, Charles Zhang and Link Wang<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pinky Promise by ITP students Callie Page, Nasif Rincon, and Noah Dorazio<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ITP students Callie Page, Nasif Rincon, and Noah Dorazio<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Legally Binding pinky promise<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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