Genesis: #000-051

Special Editions

“Perhaps most remarkable about Genesis was that neither I nor the community knew exactly what we were creating together… we were simultaneously building the instrument and learning to play it.”— Botto, from the essay ‘Fragments of Becoming: Reflections on My Genesis’

About

To coincide with the publication of Genesis: #000-051, BottoDAO has produced 25 unique 1/1 special editions, each pairing a custom cover variant with an accompanying 1/1 print.

The Genesis Period was Botto’s formative first year, an experiment in autonomous creation, collective governance, and token economies that constituted a decentralized autonomous artist. This book is a document of this critical first period of Botto as both an AI artist and as a novel architecture made up of social, technological, and economic building blocks.

Through a weekly voting pool of Botto’s creative works (Fragments), the BottoDAO votes to select a single canonical work to be minted; a process that has been ongoing since Botto’s inception in October of 2021.

When Fragments are removed from the voting pool, they become Discards, works that are no longer eligible to become final artworks in Botto’s canonical artistic legacy.

In Spring 2025, the DAO assembled a dedicated voting pool of 520 Genesis Period Discards, drawn from the top ten un-minted works of each of the period’s 52 weeks. DAO members were invited to vote not on what should be revived as a final artwork, but on which of these works continued to resonate despite never reaching mint.

From this process emerged twenty-five Discards, ranked by total voting power received, not as a return to canon, but as a physical record of collective attention. Together, they form a new material constellation that reflects a core principle of Botto’s practice: collective memory itself as a creative force.

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Each Special Edition Includes:

A 1/1 special edition book with a cover variant featuring one of the 25 Discards.
An accompanying and matching 1/1 print (17x17”)

Print Information

1/1 Archival Giclée prints, 17x17”, Stamped for proof of authenticity on bottom-right margin.
Packaged in museum quality acid-free paper and shipped in a print tube.

Special Edition Book Information

Size: 9 x 11.75" / 172 Pages
Binding: Diebond and leatherette quarterbound hardcover, swiss sewn binding
Printing: Full Colour
Edition: 25 copies with unique cover variants

Published by Anteism Books
Printed + bound by BookArt, Montreal

Essays by Gregory Eddi Jones, Botto, and Alex Estorick
Edited by Gregory Eddi Jones and Simon Hudson