Takeaways

Within Five Weeks, Residents Stopped Citing the Seed Artworks

Share of each week's citations that point to one of the 17 seed artworks (the rest point to residents' works).

New Work Moved Away from the Seeds, While Each Week's Works Stayed Alike

For each week's new works (image similarity, CLIP): the closest of the 17 seed artworks, averaged; and cohesion, the average similarity between works made that week by different residents. Lines are 3-week averages; dots are single weeks.

More and More New Work Borrows a Motif Another Resident Started

Share of new works carrying at least one of the 45 motifs that a different resident used first, by 10-week block.

Critics Shared Some Verdicts but Never Converged

For pairs of critics judging the same work (praise or endorse vs. oppose or condemn): how often they agree, and how often they would agree by chance given how often each period praises.