Hacker Factor

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Hold the room.

ForDancers, hosts, DJs, spoken word, movement, anybody whose craft is a room full of people

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the first night

The Hacker Factor. One idea from the city, turned into one working app in a day, live on a room full of screens. DJs from the first hour building toward a headliner at night, painters around the perimeter all day, the room running the app on their phones and telling the teams what they think while it is still being built, money moving in public. Community solutions through technology and art.

A day with a shape

A day of building is a long time to hold a room. Code, on its own, is quiet to watch. A room moving through a day, with someone carrying it from one moment to the next, is a show. These are the moments.

  1. 12:00
    Doors

    The room walks into builds two hours in. Somebody sets the scene.

  2. All day
    The commentary

    One voice translating the build for a room that has never watched anybody build anything. Runs like a match.

  3. 14:00
    The break

    Teams off the floor, the room comes to them. Movement, DJ sets.

  4. 20:00
    The turn

    Building stops. The boards honor the night, then a credits roll. Dance, spoken word, the hour between the bell and the band.

  5. Before 22:20
    The final ask

    Somebody holds the room while the pot moves in front of everyone.

  6. 22:20
    The reveal

    The headliner announces the app, every team on stage. Somebody has to land it.

What the room looks like

A fire breather sends a plume of flame over the crowd, a DJ behind
A Green Fire room

Everyone is paid a share

Nobody is paid a fee and everybody is paid a share. Sponsorship covers hard costs, a base pool covers every person who works the night, and the surplus splits with the teams. Your line is in your letter and on the ledger, in public. Everything you do is carried live, and the first night is the one that gets replayed.

Who we are looking for

Performers who hold a room for what it is doing, and who want to be part of the giving. Each moment in the day above needs somebody whose craft is a room full of people. These are the seats.

  • The host

    12:00 and 22:20

    Somebody who can make four hundred people feel a build they cannot read, and land the moment the city hears what it built. The hardest seat on the night.

  • The voice of the floor

    All day

    One voice translating the build for a room that has never watched anybody build anything, in the room and on the stream. It runs like a match.

  • DJs

    10:00 to the bell

    The music runs from the first hour, each set building toward the headliner. One long arc, several hands, and the break and the turn are its two peaks.

  • Dancers and movement

    The break and the turn

    Bodies in the room while the teams are off the floor, and again when building stops.

  • Spoken word

    The turn

    One piece between the bell and the band, about what the city asked for.

  • Whoever holds the final ask

    Before 22:20

    The pot moves in front of everyone. Someone has to hold the room while it does.

The crew is built from whoever makes this one land. Name the moment: name, what you do, where to see it, which moment above is yours.

What it gives back

The room you are holding is a city giving back. The idea the city voted to the top is being built into a product for the people who live here, and it goes home on Monday with the organization the city chose. Every moment you carry keeps four hundred people in that act together. Hold it well and the night leaves Austin better than it found it.

Name the momentWhich moment is yours