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

Punto di fuga

WIKIART

White tulips

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

CAEDMON

Sguardo di prua

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Indici opposti

0 POINTS

WIKIART

Madonna with Trees

Giovanni Bellini

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Scala per il Bambino

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Volto di mare

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Presepe di zucche

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Complex Forms

Sol LeWitt

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

CAEDMON

Lance e gigli

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il dito e la baionetta

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Stuppach Madonna

Matthias Grünewald

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Segno e lama

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

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.