Legend of Zelda enemies are now artists, and you can buy their drawings with Bitcoin

Can digital ‘lifeforms’ be recognized as artists? That’s the question raised by Nonhumans.net, a project set up to recognize enemies from Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda as a creative force. “One day I was rewiring The Legend of Zelda, hooking it up to other computer programs, when I discovered a secret: It turns out that monsters are surprisingly capable visual artists,” the ‘Extimate Operating Officer’ of the project (who does not share her or his real name) tells me. “I learned this when I patched their x/y coordinates into to a paint program, such that their motion controlled the digital…
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