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

Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl

Amedeo Modigliani

CAEDMON

Aureola cornuta

CAEDMON

Accordo a più mani

WIKIART

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope

Henri Rousseau

CAEDMON

Scacco al tempo

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Sospesa sulla mietitura

0 POINTS

WIKIART

A Clown

George Luks

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Tessitura di mani

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Chess Player

Thomas Eakins

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Annunciazione rovesciata

0 POINTS

WIKIART

L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird)

Jean Metzinger

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Risonanza delle ossa

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Infanzia deposta

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Scapegoat

William Holman Hunt

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Raccolto di mani

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte

Jacques-Louis David

1 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

WIKIART

Portrait of Francesco delle Opere

Pietro Perugino

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Abbraccio del ritorno

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il quadro tra le onde

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.