The Appraisal

We never priced objects at all — we price the invisible person behind them (effort, essence, want), which is why machine art is discounted the instant we decide nothing wanted to make it.

WORTHLESS · a triptych · Part I ·

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WORTHLESS — Part I: The Appraisal

Put two pictures in front of a stranger, same subject, same competence, and ask which one a person made. In the study that ran this test, published in Scientific Reports in 2023, viewers shown the images without labels mostly…