Cats from the Machine — After Hours Magnets

This is what my insomniac mind imagined might happen after the corner-store doors locked and all the shop cats gathered without us.

A playful feline side-archive from the early AI image-making era.

Inspired by years of photographing San Francisco corner-store cats, this collection preserves the strange, bright, and unpredictable feline characters that appeared when real-world observation met the machine’s dreaming logic.

It began simply enough: noticing shop cats, photographing them, and following the small feline presences tucked into the corners of the city. Years later, those memories found their way into my earliest experiments with Wombo Dream.

A real photographic habit went in. Something odd, vivid, and unmistakably feline came back.

Created during the early AI image-making era, when artists were still learning the machine’s language — and teaching the machine some of their own.

Product details

• Curated Cats from the Machine magnet collection
• Featuring original early AI artwork by Panos
• Individual 4" × 4" die-cut magnets
• Flexible vinyl with matte finish
• Strong magnetic backing
• Created from the early archive of The Art of Artificial Art
• Website: theartofartificialart.com