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

Sotto la chioma

CAEDMON

Simulacro e guida

WIKIART

The Poets in my house

Jan Cox

CAEDMON

Fioritura sotto tiro

CAEDMON

Il dono del velo

WIKIART

Joseph in Egypt

Jacopo Pontormo

CAEDMON

Profilo in fiore

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer

0 POINTS

WIKIART

Italian brigands surprised by papal troops

Horace Vernet

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Croce e riflessi

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Théâtre de l'Opéra, Carnaval 1894

Jules Cheret

1 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

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.