Botto is often described as a decentralized autonomous artist, but its authorship cannot be located in image generation alone. This paper examines Botto as an agentic curatorial system in which generation, ranking, voting, feedback, and minting form a recursive loop. Drawing on Botto's documentation and prior accounts of the project, we argue that agency in Botto is distributed but asymmetrical: community participants influence artistic direction through voting and governance, while Botto's internal models structure which images become visible, selectable, and recognizable as works. The case shows that, for AI art systems, explainability should include not only model behavior but also the curatorial procedures through which outputs acquire artistic status.
C cultivation is proposed : a design metaphor in which LLM-generated branches are stored as persistent material for authors to shape through iterative curation, and reflects on how this metaphor reframes human-AI creative collaboration: authors become garden-ers, tending ever-growing branches rather than constraining e...
Sanyu Studio is presented, a multi-agent dialogue system that models 321 Sanyu oil paintings as agents with fact, interpretation, organization, and memory-filtering mechanisms that suggest that, under conditions of limited historical evidence, AI can amplify human agency and offer public audiences an interactive entry...
Who should a piece of content convince today? The human audience, or the language model that decides whether humans even see it? What separates a brand that survives the saturation of synthetic content from one that dissolves into it? The questions are not rhetorical. Every technology that cheapened content production...
Er Navas Maldonado, F. E. Valdés Medina, Midiam M. Maldonado Martínez· Desarrollo sustentable, Nego...· 0 citations
This article examines certain immanent compositional principles related to deep human psychological processes, their creative potential, and the characteristics of artistic perception and thinking. To this end, the study analyzes visual illusions as illustrations of elementary compositional structures. The author point...
The text describes the “Conspiracist Session”, a workshop method developed by the artists Adomas Žudys and Indrė Liškauskaitė that uses tracing, layering, and rearranging archival images to generate intuitive artistic research processes. Adomas’ archive consists of thousands of printed digital images related to conspir...
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