Scott Draves

About

Scott Draves is a pioneering software artist renowned for creating Electric Sheep, a collective intelligence involving 450,000 computers and people that uses mathematics, genetic algorithms, and AI to generate infinite abstract animations. His early innovations include the Fuse algorithm in 1991, which presaged modern image-to-image models like Stable Diffusion, the Bomb project in 1994—the first interactive software artwork and open-source artwork—and the iconic Flame algorithm in 1992. Draves began working with computers as a child in 1978, performed as a VJ at events like Burning Man in 1999 and for clients such as Skrillex, and has exhibited at prestigious venues including LACMA, MoMA.org, Prix Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Art Futura, with works in collections like the 21c Museum Hotel, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, and Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.[1][2][3][5][6]

Generative abstract animations using AI, genetic algorithms, and collective intelligence with surreal, organic qualities.