Creativity Track
Where imagination becomes infrastructure.
This track explores creativity as a coordination primitive — how art shapes trust, identity, and meaning within decentralized systems. Participants will build tools and prototypes that teach AI to understand narrative, emotion, and artistic intent while pushing the boundaries of what creative work looks like on-chain.
Our Creative Offerings
💦Why Ideas Need To Fuck
Why Ideas Need To Fuck
Ideas need to have sex. That's where baby ideas come from. But like humans, ideas get boring if they only mate with their cousins. We don't want inbred baby ideas. We want to make new ideas with people that are wildly different from us. We want the ideas of a creative coder to mate with the ideas of a somatic dancer. We want the ideas of a neuroscientist to sleep with the ideas of of an installation artist. We want regen ideas to reproduce with degen ideas. In short, we want our ideas to fuck around.
Why? Because our intellectual offspring will be more healthy, more interesting, and more diverse. True, some will be deformed mostrosities. But others will be magical. And that, in my opinion, is the goal of ETH Boulder: to find interesting people to make weird, wonderful new ideas with—ideas that transform the world in positive ways. So don’t stick to your crowd. Go out. Let your ideas fuck around. And the world will be better for it.
🤖 Ultimate Robot Fights
An underground robot fight night where chaos reigns. Think Fight Club produced by theater kids. DIY robots battle in absurd matchups fueled by live audience energy, playful bets, over-the-top drama, and pure creative mayhem.
It’s ridiculous. It’s loud. It’s unforgettable.
🎶 Ethereal Sound Voyage
Ethereal Sound Voyage is an immersive sound meditation experience designed to bring nervous-system regulation, deep focus, and expanded awareness into the tech and Web3 space. Through live voice, subtle rhythms, and layered instrumental soundscapes, participants are guided into a state of deep listening—where creativity sharpens, intuition activates, and insight emerges. The session begins with a ‘tuning of the room’ using our voices collectively with humming and vocal toning exercises as well as breath release.
This experience invites you to tap into the AI of your own mind—the innate intelligence beneath thought—resetting cognitive overload and reconnecting you to clarity, presence, and embodied awareness. In a world driven by external intelligence and constant input, Ethereal Sound Voyage offers a powerful counterbalance: a direct experience of inner coherence, pattern recognition, and human consciousness as the original operating system.
Ideal for innovators, builders, and visionaries seeking restoration, creative flow, and a deeper relationship with their own awareness at the edge of technology and humanity.
🎤 Crowdsource Choir
Participant submissions from the ETH Boulder Manifesto Challenge—including text, voice, and video—are woven into a single, simple song. Guided live by Joel, these fragments are shaped into a clear, singable form that all ETH Boulder participants in the room perform together in real time.
The session culminates in a shared recording: a one-of-a-kind sonic artifact created by the people in the room, for the EthBoulder gathering.
🎨 Collective Mural
A massive communal artwork where attendees add small colored contributions that evolve into a large mosaic.
Gamified elements introduce rarity squares (gold, silver, purple). Themes include blockchains, mandalas, mountains, and emergent patterns.
🧵 Textiles, Identity & Migration
A tactile exploration of memory, territory, and migration through Mayan textiles.
Participants engage in guided workshops while their inputs are projected onto fabric. Music responds to textile patterns in real time.
🕺 Messy Motion
Improvised dance responding to live drumming. Explores chaos, creative flow, and unpredictability using ink, water, and drip systems.
Physical movement meets kinetic sculpture.
🥁 Room as Instrument
An immersive percussion playground where the room becomes the instrument. Flashlights sync to BPM.
Sensors trigger sound. Participants shape the music collectively in real time.
✍️ Collective Manifesto Lab
Participants submit phrases about what EthBoulder means to them. The community will vote submissions to curate which will make it into the manifesto. On conclusion all submissions are synthesized into a shared ETH Boulder manifesto.
Outputs feed directly into Crowdsource Choir lyrics.
🧠 Braintrust for Builders
Pixar-style creative feedback sessions for teams. Structured critique to help ideas go from good to great.
Includes optional AI sensemaker surfacing insights live.
🤖 How AI Copies Art
A practical breakdown of how AI models learn from art and what that means for creators.
Covers ethics, workflows, and creative possibilities.
🎭 Creativity as a Company Core
Field stories on how creativity shapes startups. Features physical artwork, projection mapping, and lessons from real collaborations.
📹 Onchain Creators Challenge
Creators document EthBoulder through short form video.
Wallet onboarding, live support desk, and peer-judged rewards.
🎨 Tie-Dye Swag Happy Hour
Remix your ETHBoulder swag (or resurrect old crypto tees!) into wearable proof of creativity. A playful outdoor activation blending sustainability and creativity.
🔥 Sauna Circle
Late-night wood-fired sauna for deep connection, decompression, and integration.
Sacred chill zone.
📸 Faces of EthBoulder
A live, analog portrait studio capturing the real faces of ETH Boulder. Throughout the Creativity Track, attendees are photographed on Polaroid and 35mm film, creating signed, one-of-one portraits that celebrate the human side of the conference.
This activation slows things down and creates space for real connection, presence, and documentation beyond screens.
🍵 Tea.eth: Zen Tea Ceremony for Inspiration, Presence, and Connection
A traditional Zen tea ceremony for 10 participants, offering sacred pause amid the creative intensity of ETH Boulder. Beginning with meditation and silence, participants gather to sit with tea served in traditional side-handle bowls. This ancient practice invites you to drop into deep presence, first with yourself, then with the tea, and finally into sweet connection and contemplative conversation with those around you.
As stillness deepens and tea steeps, inspiration surfaces naturally. Here, centuries-old ritual becomes a portal for creative insight, slowing time and sharpening awareness. Experience tea not as beverage but as teacher, guiding you back to clarity, intuition, and the transformative power of being fully present with others.
Last Updated 02.04.2026 @ 1PM MT
Creativity Track: Where Art Meets Infrastructure
Building the frameworks that empower communities to imagine, invent, and create our future together.
