Alexander Mordvintsev is a researcher and artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, exploring the artistic capabilities of AI by weaving machine learning, emergent phenomena, computer graphics and vision in his projects.

In our group, over the last couple of years, we experimented with evolution and, in particular, with evolutions of short programs in esoteric languages. And this is a constant source of surprises.
Alexander Mordvintsev, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology
What I was doing back then was probably one of the first times the general public saw recent neural nets that were coming from the computer vision community, which is quite a niche thing if you compare it with the whole population.
Alexander Mordvintsev, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology