Veronika Szücs & Maximilian Noichl

Macskusz is a digital creature that regenerates itself each day in response to what is happening around the world, forming a living portrait of the day’s events, moods, and textures. The creature was born from the shared language of the two artists, Veronika Szücs and Max Noichl. It began as a paper-cut project, capturing each day through the scraps of paper they encountered, but gradually took on a life of its own, evolving into an AI-powered symbiotic entity built by scanning and fine-tuning an image generation model.

Macskusz’s daily pipeline unfolds as follows: each day, an agent crawls the main news sites that Vero and Max read in the morning. An LLM then simulates how they might have discussed the news items they would likely have found most interesting, based on an internal summary of their personalities. Finally, the LLM generates a single targeted prompt for the image model, translating the essence of the day and the artists’ imagined reactions into an image. This process produces a daily avatar in the precise visual language of the original paper cuts.

In this way, Macskusz has become both a mascot and a document of the artists’ relationship. On any given day, it might appear as a lioness dissolving into a pink bubble bath, a melancholic marbled cat, or an archaic figure composed from an archaeological map, condensing a manifold of information into a singular, mythified symbol of the ever-changing world around us: The Thousand Names of Macskusz

About Us

Veronika Szücs was born in Hungary and studied art history and Indology in Budapest, contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and comic and illustration at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. She works on art books and comic projects including Damayanti (2018), Andersrum (2020), Zurück in die Zukunft (2023), and Cupcake & Bejgli (with Zsófia Pintér, 2025) and on hybrid digital-analog works. (Rapty Paints.)

Website: veronika-szuecs.com

Max Noichl is a philosopher of science. He works on the application of computational and AI methods in philosophy and is currently doing a PhD in philosophy at Utrecht University.

Previous works include a large, data-driven map of philosophy and an AI-illustrated accidental philosophical haiku project, and other computational projects across philosophy and art.

Website: maxnoichl.eu

For another AI project we developed together, visit: https://mnoichl.github.io/dierenleven/