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.

WIKIART

The Scapegoat

William Holman Hunt

CAEDMON

Steli come corde

CAEDMON

Raccolto di mani

WIKIART

Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte

Jacques-Louis David

CAEDMON

Accoglienza con musica d'ossa

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Giglio in asse

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Accordo di mare

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Triumph of Galatea

Raphael

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Fandango del Faraone

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Portrait of Francesco delle Opere

Pietro Perugino

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Deposition

Rosso Fiorentino

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Abbraccio del ritorno

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Agency Job

Banksy

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Corde tra le ossa

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Rembrandt

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il quadro tra le onde

CAEDMON

Contrappunto di drappi

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Annunciation

Filippo Lippi

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Manto d'aureole

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Scia di aureole

1 POINTS

WIKIART

White tulips

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Madonna with Trees

Giovanni Bellini

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Vele e aureole

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.