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Code == Art
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Next meeting is Oct. 1, 2025, 6-7pm, Bown Library!, Boise, ID.

Posters
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What
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This is a small Boise meetup to talk about art in relation to programming.

At each meeting the presenter will showcase a different artist. We’ll cover:

  • Introduction to the artist, who they are, their personal and artistic story
  • Presentation of curated selection of artist’s works
  • Discussion about some of the computational techniques used

If anyone attending the meeting has digital works in progress to share we can also have a section for audience presentation of their works.

When
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Next meeting is Oct. 1, 2025, 6-7pm.

The intention is to have the meeting monthly on the first Wednesday of each month.

Past meetings:

  • Wed., Aug. 6, 6-7pm, 2025, covered Danielle Navarro, presented by Nathan Whitehead.
  • Wed., Sep. 3, 6-7pm, 2025, covered Inigo Quilez, presented by Jim McKeeth.

Where
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Library! at Bown Crossing, David Eberle Room, 2153 E. Riverwalk Dr. Boise, ID 83706.

Discord
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The Boise Software Developer Group (BSDG) has a discord. Code==Art has a channel there called #creative-coding. Follow the link for an invite in case you’re not already on the discord.

Who
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I’m Nathan Whitehead, the organizer. I’m an independent software developer specializing in mathematical programming. I’m interested in how computers and art intersect, I feel like this is still an underexplored area even though people have been using computers to make art for decades now. This meetup is an excuse to talk about cool artists and discuss how they are creating their work. I’m particularly interested in artwork that involves algorithms and code as an integral part of the artwork.

Me trying to help a student debug their code at a programming summer camp (COSMOS UCSC, 2006).

You should stop by if you are interested in seeing some cool art and hearing about the techniques used to create it. You don’t need to be an expert programmer.

Some of the techniques I’m interested in:

  • Shaders and pixel filters
  • Pseudorandom number generation
  • Iterated function systems (IFS)
  • Cellular automata
  • Tiling and tessellation
  • Vector flow fields
  • Fractals

Artists
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Some artists I’m thinking about covering:

This exhibit has lots of artists to investigate: Bridges 2025 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design

Other potential themes to explore:

  • Code poetry
  • Live music coding performance
  • Live shader programming competitions
  • NFTs and generative art
  • ByteBeat algorithmic music

Presenting
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If you would like to present, email me at nwhitehe@gmail.com or message me on the BSDG discord.

Hope to see you at the meetup!
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