Ben Cerveny and Liz Magic Laser presenting a surrealist card game that "explored the tension between responsive architecture and people" at last year's Seven on Seven.

Since most hackathons end up producing artistically interesting but unprofitable projects, Rhizome's Seven on Seven event is not so unique. Still, the art hackathon, which pairs seven artists with seven technologists for a one-day burst of interactive creativity, has the express purpose of creating artistically interesting and provocative tech projects—and it always draws quality participants and an engaged crowd.

Last year, the one-day art hackathon produced supercut.org, a site that generates a supercut of supercuts, which are abruptly-cut montages from movie and television scenes. It also produced a surrealist card game and a digitally-enhanced sculpture that projected video of people talking about their families and loved ones onto 3D-printed models of the speakers’ faces using facial tracking feedback from an XBox Kinect camera.

This year's technologist and artist lineup includes the newly enriched Charles Forman of OMGPOP, the newly infamous Aaron Swartz of Reddit and downloading journal articles from MIT, Anthony Volodkin from Hype Machine, and influential designer Khoi Vinh. Jeremy Ashkenas of the New York Times and Blaine Cook, the London-based sociotechnologist, round out the techie team. The artists are Aram Bartholl, Xavier Chalatoya, Ruby Frazier, Naeem Mohaiemenjohn, Rafmantaryn Simon and Stephanie Syjuco. Douglas Rushkoff will keynote.

The event will take place Saturday, April 14 at the New Museum from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., followed by an afterparty.

Ms. Ellsworth and her partner Rashaad Newsome, a New York-based video artist, ended up working on a motion-controlled instrument that simulates vocals.

Other art-hacks produced included supercut.org, built by Andy Baio of Expert Labs, and Michael Bell-Smith, who works with animation and music. The site randomly generates a supercut of supercuts, which are abruptly-cut montages from movie and television scenes, usually cataloging each instance of a specific phrase or trope--every time the Dude drinks a White Russian in The Big Lebowski, for example.

Bre Pettis, founder of Makerbot and NYCresistor, and Zach Lieberman, an open source programmer and hacker, created a sculpture called Important People using facial tracking feedback from an XBox Kinect camera and video footage of people talking about their loved ones, which they projected onto 3D-printed models of the speakers' faces. "The great thing about this is we have a short time to do things and I look forward to be inspired and push the limit of what's possible in one day," Mr. Pettis told Betabeat before the event.

Other hacks included a surrealist card game by Ben Cerveny, who runs VURB, a think tank for urban computational systems, and Liz Magic Laser, a video and conceptual artist; Bringitforward.info (not live), an interactive timeline for historical events by Kellan Elliott-McCrea of Etsy and Emily Roysdon, a New York and Stockholm-based artist; and Behin.de (not live), which enables inline commenting, video, and annotations on the web, by 4chan/Canvas founder Chris Poole and Ricardo Cabello, a Barcelona-based artist and designer. The last hack was an iPad app for layering and fading photographs by shaking or holding the device still, created by iPhone developer Erica Sadun and installation artist Camille Utterback.

The event was part of AOL's art funding, which includes the Project on Creativity and AOLArtists.com, and was organized by New Museum affiliate Rhizome.