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Machine report · TECH/AC/09

Report of the Automatic Critic

Reference
TECH/AC/09

Date
attributed c. 1954

Status
TRANSLATION PROVISIONAL

An Ozols report describing a machine trained to evaluate paintings before they are made. Mensonge’s edition preserves both the report and the evaluator’s increasingly personal remarks.

To prevent the production of unsuccessful art by issuing criticism at the proposal stage.

Title; dimensions; materials; school or movement; artist’s age; anticipated seriousness.

Derivative. The proposed blue is fashionable and will age badly.

The artist’s explanation is longer than the work warrants.

Rejected. Insufficiently machine-like.

No image had yet been supplied.

The operator’s objection reveals a naïve attachment to visual evidence.

Retire the operator.