Joel Simon

New research project: Lluminate - an evolutionary algorithm that helps LLMs break free from generating predictable, similar outputs. Combining evolutionary principles with creative thinking strategies can illuminate the space of possibilities. joelsimon.net/lluminate

Conducted a short interview with @PasanenJenni on the importance of @Artbreeder and the work of @_joelsimon Emphasizing the importance of the Latent Lineages collection he created for the @automataisart debut in Basel is…

FINDING THE MISSING PIECE @PasanenJenni on Artbreeder and @_joelsimon's Lasting Impact by @AmeesiaMarold "With this tool I was able to create never-before-seen shaped textures with beautiful glitches and light. I completely fell in love." Read the full interview ↓

Artbreeder, created by @_joelsimon in 2018, was the first widely accessible tool for AI image generation. Early AI artists @ganbrood @ClaireSilver12 @PasanenJenni discovered their voices on this foundational platform. His new series Latent Lineages visualizes how it works ↓

This is very significant! ArtBreeder was the pioneer of collaborative AI-art platforms, where everybody interconnected their work - great visualisation of human culture in the intertextual meaning of post-structuralists. I wish I'd see these works IRL!

Really excited to be featuring the work of artist / engineer / inventor @_joelsimon. His @Artbreeder spawned some of the earliest works of AI artists @ganbrood @ClaireSilver12 @PasanenJenni

Excited to be showing prints at Art Basel with AUTOMATA! They are visualizations of complete genealogical networks of individual ArtBreeder images, revealing the shapes of large-scale, indirect collaborative evolution over time. 🧬🌌🌺

Respectfully disagree with this! I see the prompt box as a cage, constraining what we create to what we can express with language. Novel creations unfold emergently while working in a material. Down with the prompt box! This is what my talk tomorrow is about :)

Excited to speak at CVPR this year about how current research paradigms are misaligned with what artists need from their tools.

Inspired by a visit to the incredible cave paintings at Lascaux last week I made a site where you can make your own hand paintings 🖐️

Here’s a new approach to treating diseases caused by mutated proteins, including the rare but lethal liver cancer fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC). Many diseases are driven by mutations: sometimes a single change, sometimes two proteins fused together. (1/9)

The completed neural tablets sculptures