🤖 OpenSea Adds AI Artist Botto to Flagship Collection
🤖 OpenSea Adds AI Artist Botto to Flagship Collection
🎨 AI meets democracy
Botto, a decentralized autonomous artist governed by its community, has joined OpenSea's Flagship Collection with "Mirror Stages: Seed."
How it works:
- Botto generates thousands of AI images weekly
- Over 15,000 community members vote to select one work for auction
- Each piece represents collaboration between machine creativity and human judgment
Recent milestone: "Mirror Stages: Seed" serves as the origin point for 20 live generative artworks at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. The installation uses three screens showing the evolving artwork, Botto's perception of the audience, and its internal decision-making process.
Track record:
- Created by Mario Klingemann and ElevenYellow in 2021
- Exhibited at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Art Basel
- All 140+ canonical works have found collectors
- Recognized by European Commission's S+T+ARTS Prize
The project explores distributed authorship where the audience becomes part of the creative process itself.
Joining OpenSea's Flagship Collection... @bottoproject — a decentralized autonomous artist governed entirely by its community. "Mirror Stages: Seed" is the origin point for 20 live generative artworks at Art Basel Hong Kong. More below 🧵
Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist brought to life on October 8, 2021, by German artist Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) and software collective @ElevenYellow. Governed by @BottoDAO, Botto generates thousands of images each week. The community votes to select one
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