Introduction
Draves recalls writing and releasing the Electric Sheep client and server in 1999. Screensaver computers render frames collectively, with a server assembling and distributing animation, spreading computation across participants’ devices.
View full image ↗Image labelled as an early Electric Sheep on Scott Draves’s history page; the image’s exact year is not specified.
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Electric Sheep: networked evolutionary art
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
This entry for Scott Draves; Electric Sheep contributors is dated 1999, under the original title Electric Sheep. Based on the artist’s history; client versions and community sizes across different periods are not conflated.
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Process and material
Draves recalls writing and releasing the Electric Sheep client and server in 1999. Screensaver computers render frames collectively, with a server assembling and distributing animation, spreading computation across participants’ devices.
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Viewing the work and its documentation
An Electric Sheep image is one output of an evolving network. Compare resemblances between sheep alongside Draves’s account of distributed rendering and audience voting to consider how computation and aesthetic selection participate together.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Networked generation and participation predate NFTs. This case supports precise comparison of where computation, selection and ownership are distributed.
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Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Networked generation and participation predate NFTs. This case supports precise comparison of where computation, selection and ownership are distributed.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1999 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1999
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Electric Sheep
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Provenance, translation & verification
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Electric Sheep: networked evolutionary art. Art-history node #063. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/301
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