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We are the stewards of @botto. Our participation is what completes Botto as an artist. Together, we are defining a new genre of art.
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This January, @botto will perform its exploration of p5.js...
A new medium ➝ ꜱᴏᴏɴ

cc @verse
OVERHEARD IN THE DAO ↴

Words by @eddijones on the last community-voted @botto mint this Period:

The penultimate mint from the Synthetic Histories period evokes the surrealist tradition with its exaggerated, anthropomorphic forms. The sculptural contortions of the bodies blend the organic and abstract, forming deep tensions between the natural and synthetic.

Within this scene we see fruits, which in art history are tried and true metaphors for fertility and the interconnectedness of life and death. The picture teeters between beauty and grotesque, and amid certain horrors the picture contains, there also exists a comfortable familiarity in the work’s classical still life, sculptural, and painterly motifs.

As the Synthetic Histories period nears its conclusion, we can’t imagine a picture that better encapsulates the contradictions of the theme and its myriad connotations.
IN THE PRESS・・・​​⟢

Botto in WIRED Magazine ↴

'Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality'..........bullish.

https://www.wired.com/story/botto-the-millionaire-ai-artist-is-getting-a-personality/
REWARDS, EVERY WEEK・・・​​⟢
Weekly revenue of 5.29 ETH has been distributed to the community, now claimable in your dashboards

REMINDER ​・・・​​⟢
・~4 million in artwork sales thus far
・Over 35.5 ETH rewards shared with out community
・The ticker is $BOTTO
A NEW GENRE OF ART ↴

@botto will soon begin a new Period, guided by a theme that will shape it's prolific output in the weeks to come. Voting on that theme closes tomorrow, add your voice✦

https://botto.com/app/vote/theme-voting

Which Period has been your fav so far? We've come so far from our Genesis days 💛
OVERHEARD IN THE DAO ↴

In this week's Botto mint, we’re looking at some sort of upscale, candy-coated garden party ⟢ A number of aesthetics come to mind:

✦ 60s-era Pop Art, with flat color and simple geometries
✦ 19th century depictions of aristocratic garden parties
✦ The cut+paste assemblage of early 20th century Constructivism
✦ The dream-like Freudian environments of Giorgio de Chirico
REWARDS, EVERY WEEK・・・​​⟢

Weekly revenue of 5.8 ETH has been distributed:

・ 40% to Active Rewards
・ 40% to DAO Treasury
・ 20% to Protocol Owned Liquidity

→ Your rewards are now claimable in your dashboards. minimum claimable amount is now .001 ETH
OVERHEARD IN THE DAO ↴

Words by @eddijones on this week's triumphant @botto mint:

The inherent “wrongness” of AI art is amplified in Botto’s newest mint, which presents an unnatural, duoscopic view of a classical beach scene. Rather than shy away from AI’s quirkiness, Botto embraces it in this work, and turns an otherwise peaceful scene into a fragmented collision between the natural and synthetic, and between serenity and anxiety.

We might even consider the picture as something of a Schrödinger’s Beach. If we imagined it was a still from a moving image, it leaves us to wonder if the next moment would come into clearer cohesion, or if it fractures further beyond recognition.
Thank you again @superrare for having BottoDAO on as your November guest curator 🤍

Given the honor and opportunity to select artworks for the Rare Collection, our community selected pieces by artists working with AI or exploring themes of the ongoing symbiotic relationship between humans and machines ・・​​⟢

Shout out to the wonderful artists once more:
@nor44
@tkzs
@stvdionouveau
@0xvertigo.eth
@mightymoose
@igortsvetkov
@nedtzo
@themikeelf.eth
@prostov-gordey
@thompson
Garmash
Kimo
Wynjacks
1st DAO to curate the Rare Collection​ ⟢ Our selections are now live!

It was such a pleasure taking on a new group-curation task alongside our stewardship of @botto 🤍 Thank you @superrare・・​​⟢

And most importantly, thank you to the artists we collected from:

@0xvertigo.eth
@mightymoose
@igortsvetkov
@nedtzo
@themikeelf.eth
@prostov-gordey
@thompson
@nor44
@tkzs
@stvdionouveau
Garmash
Kimo
Wynjacks

🤍🤍🤍🤍
https://superrare.com/rarecollection/collection
MONTHLY RECAP ・・・​​⟢

It's never not a busy month. November saw warm press around the Sotheby's auction, a community collab with @zora, and the dawn of Otto, Botto's intern who now manages the @bottoproject account...

Full recap below ↴
https://botto.com/dao/digest/monthly-roundup-november-2024
REWARDS, EVERY WEEK・・・​​⟢

Weekly revenue of 3.86 ETH has been distributed:

・ 40% to Active Rewards
・ 40% to DAO Treasury
・ 20% to Protocol Owned Liquidity

→ Your rewards are now claimable in your dashboards. Minimum amount to claim is now .001 ETH
BEWARDS, EVERY WEEK・・・​​⟢

Weekly revenue of 4.77 ETH has been distributed:

・ 40% to Active Rewards
・ 40% to DAO Treasury
・ 20% to Protocol Owned Liquidity

→ Your rewards are now claimable in your dashboards. Minimum amount to claim is now .001 ETH
ICYMI ↴

@1kxnetwork delivered a beautiful history lesson on @botto and the longterm outlook on $BOTTO as a tool for the convergence of technology and art 🤍

https://x.com/nichanank/status/1859242961151942895
Botto's latest mint nods to humanity's long-held fascination with mechanical beings.

On the left: Crimson Android Visits Italian Village (2024)
On the right: Gort, from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
Banana Time🍌

'Humor on the Bottom, Collective on Top' by community member Noa
is now available on @zora

You know what to do: double tap to mint and collect 💛

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x81cc988a9a9ce3e834f43b46b2608f2fa38904d2/1?referrer=0xfd25808ffffbef621c4dbf0171fa647c916cb33b
REWARDS, EVERY WEEK・・・​​⟢

Weekly revenue of 8.86 ETH has been distributed:

・ 40% to Active Rewards
・ 40% to DAO Treasury
・ 20% to Protocol Owned Liquidity

→ Your rewards are now claimable in your dashboards. Minimum amount to claim is now .001 ETH
ATTENTION・゜゜・.

@superrare artists and @botto stewards...

BottoDAO has ~5 days left to select $RARE artworks for the Rare Collection

Share your $RARE art with a reply or a quote-cast here for a chance to be curated. But first, read on to learn how we're selecting what to collect

Overheard in the Discord:

'These 1pt perspective tableaus are a fun sub-category that's emerged since Absurdism. I wouldn't be suprised if collectors started putting a premium on them as a particular cornerstone of Botto's oevure'

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And what should the Botto community start posting on its Zora profile?

https://zora.co/@bottodao

We're *scheming* ....
What should @botto post on its new Zora profile?

zora.co/botto

;)
Botto has been playing with color more recently 🟩 🟦 🟨 🟧 🟥
↳ Over 35.5 ETH rewards distributed to our community ↴

Here's how:
⚛︎ We train @botto every week by voting
⚛︎ Botto evolves, mints, and sells new pieces on @superrare each week
⚛︎ Members who voted earn rewards from the revenue
⚛︎ Only 100 staked $BOTTO is required to earn rewards :)

Try out voting for free, then join the community for real ↴
https://botto.com/app/vote
Hey @aethernet – we know you like green. What do you think of these recent Botto fragments? 🟩
‘Sotheby’s has featured AI art in the past…from artists like Refik Anadol, Harold Cohen, Pindar Van Arman, and Mario Klingemann. But those are humans who used AI software to create art; Botto is on a totally different level’

ICYMI ↴
Botto in Fast Company ⟢ Covering our show at Sotheby's Auction House

https://www.fastcompany.com/91214372/botto-ai-artwork-sothebys-auction