I’ve been using Claude AI to build custom tools and applications for clients in my tech existence. Today I made one for myself — a computational interpretation of my painting 7,917 Hours Ago, a generative algorithm that “paints” using code. You can interact with it at annmorgan.art/ai.

I built it with Claude’s algorithmic-art skill, which translates an artist’s visual language into a live, interactive system. Both my worlds at once! Break this piece out of the iFrame.

A comparison work is Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised at MoMA, where he trained a machine learning model on 138,000 images from MoMA’s collection and used real-time environmental data — weather outside the museum, ambient light, sound in the lobby — as noise inputs that continuously shifted the output. My version uses the same structure but from a collection of one. Instead of MoMA’s archive, it’s my work. Instead of weather as the noise source, the noise is seeded by a number that represents elapsed hours — pulled directly from my Hours Ago series, where each painting is titled with the number of hours since a life-changing event.