Code == Art

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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 Wednesday, Aug. 6, 6-7pm. The intention is to have it monthly.

Where

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Library! at Bown Crossing, Martie Brennan Multipurpose Room, 2153 E. Riverwalk Dr. Boise, ID 83706.

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.

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 of the artists I’m thinking about covering:

• Danielle Navarro
• Casey Reas
• anders hoff
• Zancan
• Tyler Hobbs
• v3ga (Julien Gachadoat)
• Inigo Quilez
• Ben Kovach
• Antonio Sánchez Chinchón

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

Hope to see you at the meetup!

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