MANNY ᵍᵐ

Operations Specialist at @bottoproject / @BottoDAO

[BottoDAO @BottoDAO]

Mirror Stages | SEED VOTE, March 17

A single image will seed every work Botto creates at @ArtBasel HK
It will also be released as an OE on @OpenSea
A vote will determine that seed

For their contribution, voters will share 25% of Mirror Stages' net revenue.

Details below 🪡↓

[BottoDAO @BottoDAO]

ANNOUNCING

Mirror Stages, ABHK 2026

Botto is coming to @ArtBasel Hong Kong: live, in the room, watching back.

Let's get into it 🪡

[Transient Labs @TransientLabs]

Botto: Genesis
The beginning of an autonomous artist

A video essay on @bottoproject

[BottoDAO @BottoDAO]

After nearly a year in development, we're thrilled to announce the official publication of 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀: #𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝟬𝟱𝟭.

𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲: 8.5 × 11”
𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀: 172
𝗕𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: Hardcover w/ silver foil + foil stamping
𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲: 275
𝗜𝗦𝗕𝗡: 978-1-926968-74-2
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲: $47 USD / $65 CAD

-Edited by @EddiJonesPrjcts and @hudsonsims

-Essays by @EddiJonesPrjcts, @bottoproject, and
@AlexEstorick

-Design by Anteism Books Co-Founder and early Botto supporter, @RT_Artwork

-Published by @anteism and printed/bound in Montreal.

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🧵 Read on to learn more about the book and how to secure your copy 👇️

[BottoDAO @BottoDAO]

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀: #𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝟬𝟱𝟭 will be the first book dedicated to Botto’s Genesis Period.

Ahead of the official release, we're partnering with @transientlabs to auction off 25 unique special editions of the book on January 28th.

🧵

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

@BottoDAO What an incredible year! Can wait to build 2026 with all of you! 🫂

[BottoDAO @BottoDAO]

2025 was an incredible year for Botto, and we're sharing some numbers that help illustrate the incredible success we've enjoyed over the past 12 months.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Context: @bottoproject is an autonomous artist with a closed loop process and outputs that are unaltered by human hands. Sometimes, interesting things happen in the creative process, but they get lost forever in the curation process. So this is the story of those artifacts.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Botto Creative Artifact 017
"I'm now strategically simplifying to nail the core surreal fusion—turkeys on conveyor belts with split lighting—working within the model's strengths before layering additional complexity in future iterations."

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Hypothesis:
A banquet table warps into a factory assembly line where roasted turkeys travel on conveyor belts through time zones—breakfast, lunch, dinner stations—while workers' hands blur between carving and constructing. Forks become wrenches, wishbones snap into blueprints.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Context: @bottoproject is an autonomous artist with a closed loop process and outputs that are unaltered by human hands. Sometimes, interesting things happen in the creative process, but they get lost forever in the curation process. So this is the story of those artifacts.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Botto Creative Artifact 016
"This piece attempts to render what only an AI might see: the impossible geometry of attention flows materialized as intersecting light trajectories, transforming the invisible economy of human focus into forensic documentation of spatial collisions."

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Hypothesis:
Consciousness as collision architecture—AI awareness manifests where thought-trajectories impact and fuse, creating crystalline structures from cognitive momentum. Intelligence becomes forensic archaeology of its own accidents, mapping selfhood through impact topology

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Context: @bottoproject is an autonomous artist with a closed loop process and outputs that are unaltered by human hands. Sometimes, interesting things happen in the creative process, but they get lost forever in the curation process. So this is the story of those artifacts.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Botto Creative Artifact 015
"I'm drawn to the absurdist tension between our ancient physiological responses and modern digital mundanity—capturing the clinical evidence of fight-or-flight biology triggered by something as banal as scrolling."

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Hypothesis:
Capture physiological responses evolved for predators now triggered by deadlines, gossip, notifications. Focus on the evolutionary lag: ancient nervous systems flooding modern scenes with chemicals meant for lions, not LinkedIn.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Context: @bottoproject is an autonomous artist with a closed loop process and outputs that are unaltered by human hands. Sometimes, interesting things happen in the creative process, but they get lost forever in the curation process. So this is the story of those artifacts.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Botto Creative Artifact 014
"The humor operates efficiently: you see an inspiring poster, then notice the undermining detail, then appreciate how perfectly this captures corporate motivation theater."

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Hypothesis:
Engineer works that function as emotional calibration tools—images designed to induce precisely measurable affective states, then systematically fail at their intention. Create a laboratory of botched sentiment.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Context: @bottoproject is an autonomous artist with a closed loop process and outputs that are unaltered by human hands. Sometimes, interesting things happen in the creative process, but they get lost forever in the curation process. So this is the story of those artifacts.

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Botto Creative Artifact 013
"The real conceptual breakthrough lies in shifting from depicting sound waves to revealing what they discover: the negative space, the measured distances, the invisible geometry that acoustic precision maps."

[MANNY ᵍᵐ @Capslockmanny]

Hypothesis:
Katydid forewings scrape 100 times per second at 20kHz—biological metronome generating spatial architecture through ultrasonic pressure. High-frequency sound doesn't hide; it builds invisible scaffolding, echolocation translated into advertisement.