week 5 Artists
https://botto.com/
Botto is an AI design programme created by German artists Mario Klingemann and Simon Hudson in 2021. The program generates around 70,000 images per week, with 350 voted for auction by a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) containing 5,000 people.
Botto was brought to life on October 8, 2021. As a machine, Botto creates artworks in perpetuity.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/30/xanthe-dobbie-futuer-sex-love-sounds-ai-video-celebrity-clones
Xanthe Dobbie is an Australian artist who explores the potential and ethics of AI technology in her work. In her video work, Cate Blanchett’s AI voice is generated using text-to-speech technology to depict a feminist utopia of sex robots.
A community of humans train Botto, impacting the theme, style, and imagery of each creation. To date, over fifteen thousand people have contributed to Botto’s development. The artist’s award-winning practice has been exhibited internationally, but has also called into question our notions of agency, authorship and what it means to be human. Botto is a novel exploration of machine creativity, and an experiment in community, agency and value distribution.A community of humans train Botto, impacting the theme, style, and imagery of each creation. To date, over fifteen thousand people have contributed to Botto’s development. The artist’s award-winning practice has been exhibited internationally, but has also called into question our notions of agency, authorship and what it means to be human. Botto is a novel exploration of machine creativity, and an experiment in community, agency and value distribution.
