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

Preghiera alla corazza

CAEDMON

Abito da bersaglio

WIKIART

Italian brigands surprised by papal troops

Horace Vernet

CAEDMON

Croce e riflessi

CAEDMON

Banchina in tavola

CAEDMON

Mantello del villaggio

WIKIART

Théâtre de l'Opéra, Carnaval 1894

Jules Cheret

CAEDMON

Cinque testimoni

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Vessillo al cuore

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Figurines in Space: Study for the Triadic Ballet

Oskar Schlemmer

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Controcanto

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Auditorio di piume

1 POINTS

WIKIART

La Rue du Soleil, Port Vendres

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Corona di fumo

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Radici e baionette

2 POINTS

WIKIART

Venus between Terminal Gods

Aubrey Beardsley

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Punte nere nella neve

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Tra stoffa e neve

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Profile of a girl. Preparatory work for a decorative stain in red and green.

Koloman Moser

2 POINTS

WIKIART

A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville

Alfred Dehodencq

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Senza titolo 8ebd2307

2 POINTS

WIKIART

Dante's Dream

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

2 POINTS

CAEDMON

Sogno Aureo

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

La Via Dorata

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.