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 ^{20 / 20}

The images living here can become parents. Their traits may continue in their descendants, even after they leave the pool.

CAEDMON

Cavalcata d'Aurora

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CAEDMON

Latte e luce

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CAEDMON

La lattaia tra i pini

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CAEDMON

Sussurri della Luna

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WIKIART

The Enigma of the Oracle

Giorgio de Chirico

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CAEDMON

Sogno Aureo

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CAEDMON

Crepuscolo dorato

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WIKIART

Madonna

Edvard Munch

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CAEDMON

Trinità del Nilo

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CAEDMON

La Via Dorata

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WIKIART

Black and white reproduction of a portrait of Sakyamuni

Wu Daozi

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WIKIART

Christ as a Warrior. Ego Sum Via, Veritas Et Vita

Byzantine Mosaics

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WIKIART

Terracotta Plate

Ancient Greek Pottery

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WIKIART

The Stomach Dance

Aubrey Beardsley

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WIKIART

The Story of Nastagio

Sandro Botticelli

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WIKIART

Judith and the Head of Holofernes

Gustav Klimt

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WIKIART

Evolution

Piet Mondrian

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WIKIART

Dusk

Alphonse Mucha

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WIKIART

Composition VIII

Wassily Kandinsky

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WIKIART

Piazza d'Italia

Giorgio de Chirico

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Explore the pool ↗

Every six 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. Each day, the leading candidate may enter the pool: it stays there, encounters other images and can reproduce, passing its traits to future works.