Horo Mox, the pseudonym of the Paris-based artist Serge Aa, makes generative digital art from true randomness — numbers pulled from radioactive decay, atmospheric noise and quantum random number generators, rather than the pseudo-randomness of ordinary algorithms. He calls the resulting work “AIproof art”, chaotic and unpredictable patterns designed to resist interpretation by machine-learning systems.
He began experimenting with neural networks and true random number generators in the 1990s, generating abstract images and texts from data such as radioactive decay and atmospheric noise from thunderstorms. In 2004 he developed the concept of AIproof art, using true randomness to reject patterns that machine learning algorithms could reproduce, a concept that later evolved into what he calls the OArt paradigm. Between 1999 and 2003 he studied traditional Tibetan Buddhist ceremonial arts, including TangKa painting and NamKha ritual objects, at a monastery in the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu lineages. That training later informed his series Quantum Air NamKhas, which reconceives the traditional Tibetan Namkha as a device built from quantum data and random numbers intended to resist artificial intelligence interpretation.
