We went on our very first walking meetup at the museum with sister hackerspace Noisebridge from San Francisco. It was very cool having walking meetings, discussing art in the same space as math and tech, and exchanging ideas while moving around in a cultural center.
There were no undercover marketing powerpoint slides of shady startups trying to sneak their way into our meeting, no depressing meetings facing a bunch of people in person on hybrid video conference calls staring at their laptops instead of interacting with each other, no discord chat typing instead of talking face to face – I’m sold on the walking meetup!
We learned so much from each other as it was a “diverse” group of people of different backgrounds, and a nice look into the fine arts. Discussions ranged from problems in industrial design to fine arts fairs in Venice, math in the history of art, and math in color theory.
It’s also refreshing for tech hackerspaces to educate people on how innovative the fine arts are. On the West coast a lot of NFT, video game and Burning Man art tends to dominate, and there are a lot of people not aware that there are many art giants with amazing shoulders who have been innovating in fields like augmented reality for decades.
The work going on in the fine arts at European art festivals is especially refreshing!
Kara Walker, a True Hacker
The best thing about the Fortuna was showing people that Kara Walker is a kickass hacker who works with robots but does so with context and meaning. Instead of focusing on tech for tech’s sake, she uses the robots to draw upon European traditions and enlighten.
We began our evening in the giant free area at the SF Moma, which is such a great place to begin any visit.
The Art of Noise
At the Art of Noise exhibit we did some research on the founder of Bose, Amar Bose, and we discovered that he was a beloved professor at MIT for many years before founding the world-famous Bose speaker company.
Anselm Kiefer, Melancolia
Gerhard Richter and his Color Systems
Usually designers at hackathons and meetups are left pretty voiceless, but having conversations about color theory, art, and how it works in the real world between a designer and a mathematician was really fun!
Let’s Do It Again
All in all it was a successful night! After months of brain-numbing powerpoint slides, online meetups, and online chatting, it’s so nice to take advantage of the city that we live in and enjoy its rich cultural fabric. Walking meetups where people talk face to face also provide stronger connections than discord chats, and it was a nice way to broaden our outlook by looking at the art scenes in Europe and New York!
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