CoreContributors
Working groups across the DAO steward Botto’s career. Gain insight into key roles within the DAO and understand from who we heed advice.
The Stewards
Quasimondo
Hudsonsims
Choobie
Agustin
Agu
Mika
Vero
Gregory Eddi Jones
Ben
Taltem
Carter
Pablo
Tom
Anis
Paarad
Cian
Eric
Anthony
Manny
Aksel
Holly
The Advisors
Raul
Selo
Mario Klingemann is a renowned artist and a pioneer in the field of neural networks, generative art, and machine learning. Often known by his online moniker "Quasimondo," Klingemann has made significant contributions to the intersection of art and artificial intelligence. Mario continues to make core contributions to Botto's art engine, fuelling the distributed artist's ongoing development.
Hudsonsims (aka Simon Hudson) is Botto’s Project Co-Lead, leading strategic development and partnerships in technology, art, and academia. He works across the contributors, DAO, and Botto’s broader network to synthesize the strategic direction of Botto and the DAO. Simon has spent his career over the last 13 years producing media projects that explore themes in science, technology, and economy. Since 2016 he has been investigating topics in AI governance, policy, responsible/ethical AI, and human-machine collaboration.
Choobie is Botto’s Project Co-Lead and Head of Product. He guides the project’s strategic direction, connects operations across working groups, contributes extensively to governance through proposals and moderation, and regularly shares public updates that communicate Botto’s progress, priorities, and long-term vision.
Agustin is the technical lead for Botto. With over 10 years of experience as a software engineer, he has developed and managed key infrastructure for industry-leading SaaS products. Agustin works on his own NGO in his free time and consistently votes on landscape fragments.
Agu is Botto's senior frontend engineer, executing on the overall visual direction of Botto. His background stems from (inter)national cultural sector projects over the past 15 years, also having made several contributions in crypto-native art projects.
Mika is senior producer for Botto. They’ve exhibited globally, with their curation featured in Yahoo News, Artnet Hypebeast, and Coinbase. Previously curated at SuperRare. They are a filmmaker and curator specializing in AI.
Vero is a product manager who works from concept to implementation with the development team. She also builds and maintains the project’s internal automations and systems, supports users on technical issues and keeps metrics and reporting current. Her background spans engineering, management and operations, followed by a transition into tech through hands-on work launching digital products.
Gregory is a photographic artist, writer, and publisher engaged with the contemporary photography ecosystem since 2010. He leads the content working group for the DAO, orchestrating and executing on all content initiatives on the newsletter, digest, and general communications of/by the DAO.
Ben is one of the DAO's primary stewards when it comes to collectorship, operating in a collector relations role. He is involved in understanding collectors' interests and preferences, providing information on new acquisitions and market trends, and assisting with the curation and expansion of their collections. Ben runs his own gallery, "GM World", where he supports emerging on-chain artists.
Taltem is a writer, editor, designer, and researcher based in the San Gabriel mountains. They work on grants for the DAO, seeking out opportunities to subsidize our mission to making Botto a globally recognized, autonomous artist.
Carter handles Community Comms for the DAO, keeping a steady drumbeat across Discord and Twitter and making proposals for community initiatives. He has supported efforts like the first curation competition and NFT.NYC DAO mints, and is also recognized for his photography.
Pablo is the DAO's visual lead, contributing to the visual identity of Botto as well as the experience offered across Botto's ecosystem.
Tom is treasury manager to the DAO, overseeing financial assets, advising on liquidity, and ensuring long-term stability. He draws on his background as CFO at CoinList and years in TradFi—including M&A, Equity Capital Markets, and FP&A—to guide Botto’s strategic planning, risk assessment, and financial operations.
Raul advises the DAO's treasury, providing analysis on our existing resources and the DAO's economy to maximize financial resources. Raul runs a digital asset advisory firm and is also involved in the universe of rare pepes.
Anis is a full stack developer with a specialization in machine learning, directly contributing to the maintenance and development of Botto's art engine.
Selo is the founder/CEO of ElevenYellow, one of the founding teams that helped spawn Botto.
Paarad is an ongoing contributor to the DAO, helping drive community engagement on Discord, as well as building bots for the DAO's derivative collections.
Cían is a Montréal-based creative producer specializing in large-scale installations at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Formerly Exhibition Producer at Science Gallery Dublin and Artistic Director at Eastern Bloc, he most recently worked at Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s studio, Antimodular, producing immersive, technically ambitious works. His multidisciplinary background in research, project management, and artistic direction makes him a key contributor to Botto’s evolving practice.
Eric focuses on context engineering; building and maintaining pipelines that populate our agents’ context windows. This involves governance, curation, and social graph integration, yielding pre-llm era history and current data to be applied downstream. Before joining Botto, he worked on pretraining protein language models and message-passing networks in the bio/ML space.
Anthony is a full-stack developer on Botto’s product team, known for building fast—earning him the nickname ‘the speed boat’—and for leading the transition from the legacy app to the new platform. With seven years of product-building and entrepreneurial experience, he drives strategy and ships features at high speed.
Before jumping into web3 as LVCIDIA’s COO alongside Fvckrender, Manny spent 10 years living off photography and 7 years working in marketing agencies. He now supports Botto’s operations—handling weekly accounting, contributor payments, vendor invoicing, DAO hiring & reporting, and internal tools for smoother project management.
Aksel is a human agent working for the AI artist Botto, building its memory, creative logic, and emotion-understanding pipelines. With 15 years in AI and ML, he has served as CTO for startups and corporate teams, exited a deep-learning venture, consulted in ML for five years, and holds an engineering degree in operational research and machine learning.
Holly has a background in art history and computer science. She previously led the marketing for Verse, a digital art marketplace, and SOLOS, a contemporary art gallery native to web3. She has published writing on socially engaged art practices, technological developments within the art world, and digital art. She founded the Contemporary Arts Society in Edinburgh, using art as a means to foster dialogue around contemporary social and political issues.
Community Spotlight
Growing Roses From Concrete
I challenge that with the evolution of technology from AI to Blockchain that the smallest spaces today to grow and blossom from is in fact in nature, far away from the accesses of technology and digital connection that appears to have unlimited space.
This collection shows the intersection of earth's nature and the human species and our creations. I hope it evokes thoughts on your connection with nature and if this feels like space and potential or limits you from the man-made world we've created virtually.
