The Museum is excited to host special guests, artist Isabel Rucker and her father, author Rudy Rucker, in conversation about time, the 4th dimension, and infinity. Their conversation corresponds with Isabel’s recent window installation, “Illustrations of Time.”

Isabel Rucker is a multi-disciplinary artist living on California’s Mendocino coast. She works with 2- and 3-D media to explore color, abstraction, shape, and environmental shifts.

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, Rucker, has written three books on the fourth dimension and is the winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards.

“To keep the world organized, humans agree upon mechanical timekeeping, but time is much more than a mechanical and linear idea. There are abstract thoughts like the fourth dimension, expansion, simultaneous, or parallel time. Animals keep time through migration and plants through growth cycles. The perception of time passing is different between a bumblebee and a human. There are also the massive timekeepers of planets turning and deep time like the slow progress of rock formation. Time can be various shapes and warp from quick to slow within one hour.” - Isabel Rucker

Rudy and Isabel will have artistic and literary works for sale.