Wild Era Art: Origin Story. This robot is the arena for on canvas battles between wild art and A.I & Algorithms. Algorithms have a normalizing force where data, people, ideas and systems that bend their shapes to fit into their acceptable inputs are rewarded with greater visibility. Have you heard of Instagram Face or Face Tuning? Face Tuning algorithms use AI to adjust the size, shape and smoothness of faces and bodies before posting them. When this adjustment occurs on a photograph it is seamless, often not fully visible. When this same adjustment is applied via this robot onto a wild (and still wet) portrait painting the result is mess, scars, tension, areas of noticeable conflict between the wild and the controlled. There is a tension between who you are and who society says you should be. I paint portraits that reveal that tension. Wild vs Controlled. Which are you?