CALCULATIG
SPACE
A HACKATHON AT FSO GERMANY 2027
THE IDEA
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At the centre of FSO Germany is a hackathon at the Kühlhaus Görlitz. Teams from several countries compute science-fiction worlds from real measurement data of the Milky Way and shoot films inside them. The machine hall becomes a computing space; every team works at its own station, with a scientist at its side.
The title goes back to Konrad Zuse, who in 1969 described the universe as a computing process: Rechnender Raum, calculating space.
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FIVE STEPS
FROM MEASURED DATA
TO COMPUTED WORLDS
MEASURE · COMPUTE · INHABIT · SHOOT · ENTER
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The hackathon follows five steps: measuring with the scientists, computing worlds from the data, inhabiting them with characters, shooting inside them and finally entering them as visitors. All results are published openly and stay traceable to their data.
Garching and Görlitz hack together, with the 3D maps of the Milky Way computed in Garching as a common starting point.
AT THE KÜHLHAUS
FERNWIRKUNG
× !GAL
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Alongside the hackathon, the soundwalk Fernwirkung turns the Kühlhaus grounds into an audible data centre. During the lab, the typing on the teams’ keyboards in the machine hall is part of the walk as well.
From May to September 2027, the art-science residency !GAL runs at the same place, with researchers from the DZA together with DESY and from CASUS.
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A call for teams is in preparation. Teams, scientists and partners can already take part: send us your ideas for the hackathon and a rule for the vow below. The lab works like a bazaar: everyone brings something, everyone takes something home.
We camp on the Kühlhaus grounds; rooms for two at the Garagenhostel are available at your own cost. Meals come from a shared kitchen, run by rotating cooking teams.
Rashomon e.V. carries the lab and grows with its members. If you want to back the work beyond May, write to info@rashomotion.com.