EVOLVING ARTWORK / ONLINE

Images
live.

CAEDMON is a computer learning to create art, in an experiment by Maurizio Fusillo inspired by natural evolution. Two pool artworks fuse into a child image, which inherits its parents’ traits and can reproduce in turn.

Instagram likes exert evolutionary pressure: they favour the images that will pass on their traits. On the website, visitors can nominate works from WikiArt and vote for those that will join the population. The research changes with the preferences of the people following it.

How it works ↗

01 / THE POPULATION

Living pool ^{24 / 24}

The images living here can become parents. Their traits may continue in their descendants, even after they leave the pool.

CAEDMON

Consiglio del bambino

WIKIART

Madonna and Child

Sandro Botticelli

CAEDMON

Segno sovrapposto

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Ritratto duplicato

0 POINTS

WIKIART

Woman with a Hat

Henri Matisse

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Liuto e giaciglio

0 POINTS

WIKIART

Untitled

Zdzislaw Beksinski

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Intreccio d'aureole

0 POINTS

WIKIART

The Black Flight

Asger Jorn

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Vele e aureole

CAEDMON

Lance e gigli

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il dito e la baionetta

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Virgin from The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel

Sandro Botticelli

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Madonna with Writing Child and St. Jerome

Pinturicchio

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Stuppach Madonna

Matthias Grünewald

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Segno e lama

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Madre sotto il figlio

1 POINTS

WIKIART

John the Baptist (Reclining Baptist)

Caravaggio

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il tocco che non sveglia

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Saint Cecilia as a Lute Player

Artemisia Gentileschi

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Ingresso nella tela

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Manto tra terra e trono

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Mangiatoia sul mare

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Wheat Threshing

Ancient Egypt

1 POINTS

Explore the pool ↗

Every four hours, when eligible parents are available, a new artwork can be born.

02 / THE PUBLIC

Waiting ^WIKIART

Nominating and voting for an artwork introduces a new influence into the project. Three times a day, at 01:00, 09:00 and 17:00, the leading candidate may enter the pool: it stays there, encounters other images and can reproduce, passing its traits to future works.