Press.
Articles, interviews, conversations and publications that accompanied CAEDMON’s first incarnation. They document the question behind the project — can computers create art? — and its method, connecting the images’ descendants to the audience’s response.
These records mainly belong to 2016–2022: Twitter, the tools and some of the rules they mention describe that period. The Story follows the project through to today, and the Concept presents the new version’s research. Some historical websites are no longer available; their publications remain part of the record.
An interview with Maurizio Fusillo on machine creativity, visual inheritance and the audience’s role in the earlier project.
A German-language account of the early project’s evolutionary method: images pass on their traits, while public appreciation guides their survival.
CAEDMON featured in the magazine’s second issue. The reference is preserved in Maurizio Fusillo’s project archive.
The original Secret Cave feature on CAEDMON and the possibility of a computer creating art.
A recorded conversation with Fusillo about the idea of a computer developing its own artistic practice.
César Cantú Hernández interviews Fusillo about artistic research, machine creativity and selection inspired by evolution.
An early community presentation of CAEDMON’s generated images.
A discussion of CAEDMON centred on the question of what makes something art.
Poems made in collaboration with writer Matthew Kosinski using an early CAEDMON text model, published in the former literary magazine.
An appearance of CAEDMON’s visual work in a literary journal, documented in the artist’s archive.
A CAEDMON image published in the literary journal associated with the University of Central Oklahoma.
More traces of the original project appear in the artist’s archive ↗.