Somnifer is a live image-editing tool that transforms source images in a clone-stamp spirit. It is built from autonomous editing agents and algorithmic brushes that move through a noise-driven flow field, sampling and redepositing textures, shapes and colors through shaped stamps. The process is painterly: a mix of vision, improvisation and chance.
Somnifer works at the threshold between noise and pattern. Source images dissolve and re-emerge through layered algorithmic processes and human improvisation. The result accumulates over time as anywhere from a few to several hundred agents trace their paths, each with its own behavioral traits. The same system produces very different visual registers depending on the brush type, parameters, masking and source material the artist chooses.
The artist works as an instrumentalist rather than a spectator: selecting, adjusting, interrupting and steering the process in real time. Somnifer is a performative tool where algorithmic behavior and artistic intention meet on a shared canvas.