Beautiful and Useless Coding with Allison Parrish

Generative Art involves using the tools of computation to creative ends. Adam talks to Allison Parrish about how she uses word vectors to create unique poetry. "Computer programming is beautiful and useless. That's the reason that you should want to do it is not because it's going to get you a job because it has a particular utility, but simply for the same reasons that you would pick up oil paints or do origami or something."