01CAEDMON
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.
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.
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Bijin in pink and white curtainKiyokata Kaburagi · 19031 VOTES↗02
Menna and Family Hunting in the MarshesAncient Egypt · -14111 VOTES↗03
Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)Giotto · 13061 VOTES↗04
Presentation of the Virgin at the TempleCima da Conegliano · 1500 ,1 VOTES↗05
Young Woman with a Water PitcherJohannes Vermeer · 16651 VOTES↗06
Venus between Terminal GodsAubrey Beardsley · 18951 VOTES↗
Bijin in pink and white curtainKiyokata Kaburagi · 19031 VOTES↗02Menna and Family Hunting in the MarshesAncient Egypt · -14111 VOTES↗03Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)Giotto · 13061 VOTES↗04Presentation of the Virgin at the TempleCima da Conegliano · 1500 ,1 VOTES↗05Young Woman with a Water PitcherJohannes Vermeer · 16651 VOTES↗06Venus between Terminal GodsAubrey Beardsley · 18951 VOTES↗