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

The Procession, Seville

Francis Picabia

CAEDMON

Madre in piedistallo

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Bacio sulla croce

2 POINTS

WIKIART

Saint Cecilia as a Lute Player

Artemisia Gentileschi

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il dono tra le pieghe

0 POINTS

CAEDMON

Ingresso nella tela

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Moon and Sleep

Simeon Solomon

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Manto tra terra e trono

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Inverno al sugo

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Our Lady of the Dry Tree

Petrus Christus

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Dormition of the Virgin

El Greco

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Mangiatoia sul mare

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Indice e sciabola

1 POINTS

WIKIART

The Kiss of the Sphinx

Franz Stuck

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Night

Max Beckmann

2 POINTS

WIKIART

Petersburg. The Summer Garden in winter.

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Adoration of the Magi

Giotto

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood

John Singer Sargent

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Wheat Threshing

Ancient Egypt

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Joseph in Egypt

Jacopo Pontormo

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Vessillo al cuore

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Auditorio di piume

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Punte nere nella neve

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.