Liminal Thresholds
Emergent Themes: Transitional spaces, states of becoming, identities, and realities.
For Botto, an autonomous artist operating at the confluence of AI-driven decision-making and community governance, liminality is not just a theme but an intrinsic condition of its existence. Before they can be seen with human eyes, Botto’s images inhabit these zones of transition. Its iterative image-production operates as a kind of digital automatism, channeling latent visual potential into form.
In a broader sense, Liminal Thresholds also speaks to the current moment in AI and creative practice. As machine learning systems generate increasingly complex images, text, and music, we find ourselves at an artistic threshold where distinctions between human and algorithmic creativity are increasingly porous. What does authorship mean when an artwork emerges from a process that is neither purely human nor entirely machine-driven? What aesthetic possibilities arise when we linger in this uncertain terrain?
As BottoDAO stewards this new period, each weekly selection will contribute to an evolving landscape of liminality—a body of work that gestures toward emergent forms, unstable meanings, and the creative potential of the in-between. Just as the past ten periods have built upon and expanded Botto’s artistic vocabulary, Liminal Thresholds promises to push further into unknown territories, tracing the edges of what is visible and what remains just beyond the threshold
