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 Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

Eugene Delacroix

CAEDMON

Accordo di porto

CAEDMON

Parola in pugno

WIKIART

Portrait of Cardinal Albergati

Jan van Eyck

CAEDMON

1 POINTS

WIKIART

Agency Job

Banksy

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Corde tra le ossa

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

Il quadro tra le onde

CAEDMON

Contrappunto di drappi

1 POINTS

CAEDMON

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.