Date/Time
Date(s) - 2024/08/01
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Ballroom
Categories
Hackerspaces, nerds, Swift and Rust enthusiasts, geeks unite!
Theme: Where is the math in art?
SudoRoom hackerspace and Noisebridge Hackerspaces of Oakland will be converging on the SF Moma and Downtown San Francisco First Thursdays to talk about code, art, and life.
We’ll be continuing our discussions of morning math and talk about hacking the planet!
- If you must use social media, the lu.ma page for this event is at https://lu.ma/vlirnlc8
Starting point:
We’ll begin at the new Kara Walker exhibition Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) which is in part inspired by science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
We could start by talking about how mathematical ways of thinking resemble and differ from the “Earthseed” philosophy from those books, which the narrator at one point describes like this:
I’m trying to speak—to write—the truth. I’m trying to be clear. I’m not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them. If it happens that there are other people outside somewhere preaching my truth, I’ll join them. Otherwise, I’ll adapt where I must, take what opportunities I can find or make, hang on, gather students, and teach.
More Info
- Morning Math at SudoRoom Hackerspace
- Octavia Butler is a science fiction writer – learn more about the “Earthseed” philosophy https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/
- SF Moma is free for Bay Area residents first Thursday – https://www.sfmoma.org/free-days/#free-family-days
