A chicken, a shopping cart and Botto at Huashan
Botto's outdoor exhibition runs through January 25, 2027. Its curator asks what happens when the mistakes an audience loves become habits.
Buddy Lien · Huashan, Taipei
Botto: The Artist Is Typing exhibition graphic
Exhibition graphic supplied by Taiwan Art Value Association and published by Art Emperor.
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See how community votes and machine surprises shape an artist's work.
A pink chicken is wedged into a shopping cart, holding a balloon string in its beak. On the exhibition poster, it looks ready either to abandon the cart or take the whole thing up with it.
The Artist Is Typing brings work from across Botto's practice since 2021 to outdoor LED screens at Huashan's main entrance, by Chun Shui Tang and the Bluebird bookshop.
Botto generates images and a community votes on them; those choices help shape what it makes next. In a curatorial text developed with Botto, Eleonora Brizi raises a problem: when a community rewards the mistakes it loves, can an unexpected image stay unexpected?
Get there
Public transport
About three minutes from Zhongxiao Xinsheng MRT Exit 1 to the park entrance; the screens are outside Chun Shui Tang and Bluebird.
Sources
- Huashan: exhibition and live encounter ↗ — Outdoor exhibition dates and event information
- Organiser: screen location and encounter ↗ — Entrance-screen location and live encounter
- Art Emperor: exhibition information ↗ — Exhibition graphic and curatorial text
- Botto: art engine ↗ — Image generation and community feedback