Kevin Esherick 👖

At NousCon on Friday I debuted a new work called Mandala

Mandala features a sandboxed agent instructed simply to turn its sandbox into a work of art

It continually expands on and improves its creation in the pursuit of beauty. Then every 24 hours it is completely wiped, only to begin again

Only a hash of its state is left behind

The six screens here show six different windows in which it's concurrently making art

They completely change from one run to the next, but in this run they range from an ASCII civilization built by agents to a coordinate-based latent space explorer to a digital sand mandala made of pixels, where each "grain" represents an action taken in the sandbox

The piece is titled after the Buddhist sand mandalas in which monks build beautiful compositions grain by grain, only to wipe them away upon completion

People were super engaged and had more questions than I had time to answer, so if you want to know more or are interested in having the installation at a show/event, feel free to reach out!

Since everyone is eager to share their heavily biased viewpoints on the incompletion call in Notre Dame-Miami last night, I had a panel of LLM judges review the footage and make the call themselves

Their verdict was unanimous: no catch

Haven’t slept but promise kept ☘️

Staying up all night tn to watch Notre Dame (Fighting Irish) beat Miami from France, 1:30am kickoff

Will visit the OG Notre Dame (cathedral) on my way to the airport in the morning as tribute

Glitching out