Botto: The Decentralized Autonomous Artist

Role: Creative Producer, Writer, Curator ≈ Client: Botto, BottoDAO

From 2022-2024 I worked with Botto, a decentralized autonomous artist founded by Mario Klingemann, to help the DAO communicate Botto’s artwork and process, produce exhibitions, and formalize collaborations with other artists such as Ross Goodwin.

Some of the work I did for them includes making a process video for exhibitions and conferences, getting Botto into Siggraph 2023, producing multiple exhibitions and presenting at CutOut Fest 2023 on the historical prescendent for such a category of art.

Botto is exploring ideas around authorship and ownership when it comes to art, and specifically digital, machine learning based works. Facilitated by a DAO, the algorithm which creates Botto’s artworks, is continually trained by this elective community who weekly vote on their favorite generated pieces. This information then further clarifies the aesthetic of this collective collaboration. To experiment with voting: check this out.