The year was 2020, a time when generative AI had not yet seen the light of day.
We aimed at creating art using AI.
We aimed to explore the possibility of creating an artificial organism with the capability to paint.
But we did not want to train the AI on human-made data.
We wanted the AI to create images based on its own physical conditions.
But we did not want to decide on its physical appearance.
We consulted an evolutionary biologist.
We set up a laboratory, an artificial environment where the artificial organism came into being.
Through the process of attracting singular parts to one another, bodily forms emerged.
Arcana, still in an early evolutionary stage, is about to evolve further.
Where this evolutionary process will lead is still unknown.
Meanwhile, Arcana has entered a transformational stage as a cocoon.
Awaiting the possibility of performing its code within a different technoecology.