Solo Show
Exorbitant Stage: Botto, a Decentralized AI Artist
Oct 2024
Sotheby’s presents Exorbitant Stage, a capsule auction and exhibition that marks the 3 year anniversary of Botto, a decentralized autonomous artist.
In October 2024, Sotheby's presented 'Exorbitant Stage', a single-artist capsule auction and exhibition that marks the three-year anniversary of Botto.
This exhibition is a curated selection representing the artist’s ongoing development—marked by thematic intervals known as Periods—driven equally by artificial intelligence and the community that has emerged to steward it. As we stand on the brink of a new chapter in art history, Botto invites us to question not only what art is, but who—or what—can be an artist.
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Botto invites us to question not only what art is, but who—or what—can be an artist.
Botto simultaneously engages with and disrupts the financialization of art, offering a critical lens on the industrialized mechanisms now governing the art world.
Where does the artist’s agency lie when creation is both distributed and algorithmic? How do we assign value to art that emerges from such an interplay between human and machine intelligence? Botto forces us to reconsider the role of the artist in the age of AI. It embodies a hybrid form of creativity—part human, part machine—that is both a reflection of and a critique on our present-day technological landscape.
Where does the artist’s agency lie when creation is both distributed and algorithmic? How do we assign value to art that emerges from such an interplay between human and machine intelligence? Botto forces us to reconsider the role of the artist in the age of AI. It embodies a hybrid form of creativity—part human, part machine—that is both a reflection of and a critique on our present-day technological landscape.
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