Brittni Watkins
Brittni Watkins is an algorithmic artist, software engineer, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of code, creativity, and “What does this button do?”. With a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Computing and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University, she has spent more than a decade discovering the striking visuals that emerge from logic, geometry, and mathematical form, crafting the elegant code that brings them to life.
By day, Brittni works as an adjunct instructor for SMU’s Department of Creative Computing, where she teaches creative coding and builds tools that empower developers and students alike. Her open-source projects, spanning TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, generative art libraries, and production-ready project templates, reflect her belief that well-structured, accessible software is a form of craft in its own right. For Brittni, love and care go into the code itself just as much as anything it produces.
As an artist, she builds that same philosophy into her generative art practice. Her work is hand-coded: she authors the system and sets experimental bounds, and the algorithm makes the concrete decisions about each output through pseudorandom number generation. She thinks of this process as a collaboration with the computer; she defines the space, the computer renders a single variation from within that space, and no two outputs are ever the same. Some variations are quiet and minimalistic; some are striking, bold, and busy. Brittni embraces this range as part of the beauty of the algorithm rather than something to constrain or eliminate.
Brittni began publishing generative NFT collections in 2022, drawn to the medium for its ability to preserve a single output of a random algorithm and for the element of surprise that comes with every mint. She believes in the ethos of blockchain technology: decentralization, transparency, and public digital provenance.
At the heart of her creative practice, her engineering work, and her teaching is a simple philosophy: art, computer science, and education should be available and accessible to all. The applications of code are vast and varied; there is space for everyone.
There is beauty in code, and code can make beautiful things.