Looking Outwards 02

http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/talkingpopcorn.php

The generative artist that I am choosing to explore is Nina Katchadourian. She is a photographer, sculptor, and more, but the reason that I thought of her work for this blog post is because one of her pieces, entitled ‘Talking Popcorn’, uses the same logic as computer generated art. The piece is essentially a morse code reader installed inside of a popcorn machine, when batches of popcorn are popped, morse code reader translates strings of letters. In some of the popcorn batches there are actual english words that result in poems, or phrases and more. Nina has then memorialized the real popcorn that when popped, made words. Although this artist did not use code to make this artwork, I feel that she has utilized the concept of the randomness of an act like popping popcorn in a way that is similar to randomly generated code. I really admire how she took such a mundane act like popping popcorn and thought about how it could be made into randomly generated art.