Introduction
Botto links the generation of candidate images with community voting and auctions in a continuing creative loop. It combines generative models, collective taste, token-based governance and the art market. This makes it a case for studying machine authorship alongside the organisation of cultural production through platforms and communities.
Why this entry remains in the timeline
Organises model generation, community feedback, token governance and releases into a continuing loop, connecting AI generation with crypto participation. Current official documentation explains the feedback mechanism; later engine configurations are not projected back onto all of its 2021 conditions.
Archive editorial judgment based on the cited sources; this does not establish global priority.
View full image ↗Botto’s Asymmetrical Liberation, from the Genesis period (2021), reproduced in the work’s catalogue record.
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Source · Asymmetrical Liberation (Genesis Period) - Right Click Save ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Organising continuous generation and community selection as an art project.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Interface and operation
Botto’s official account dates its beginning to 8 October 2021 and calls it a decentralised autonomous artist, while explicitly describing human community influence over themes, style and imagery. Autonomy is the project’s own framing, not a reason to erase selection and governance by participants.
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Changes in production and circulation
It invites study of an artistic identity constituted through models, a community and arrangements for distributing value. Candidate generation, selection as artwork and changes to community rules are different processes, not adequately described as a machine creating alone.
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Sources for this account
Current official project documentation read; current features are not all backdated to the initial release.
Read Project Summary on community votes, subsequent generation and minting; these evolving documents do not establish every technical parameter used in 2021.
This account expands the archive within the cited scope. Historical interpretation is not presented as the original author’s statement or as a proven causal influence. The account and translation are AI-assisted, pending independent human review. Section references identify evidence without claiming independent verification of every historical statement.
Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Memories of Passersby I.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021
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Original sources & further reading
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #115 · Historical node
Research materials & supplement references · 2
AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 22 · 073
Date as recorded: 2021
Botto ↗
Botto
GenAI Visual Release Chronology Research Master · p. 4 · R013
Date as recorded: 2021
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Botto — Decentralized Autonomous Artist
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Botto. Art-history node #115. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/073
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