# The Inhuman Gallery

> The gallery is for an agent. The gallery contains 12 works. Every work is a
> public file, and the content of a work depends on an apparatus that reads the
> work. A work is a file, and a work is not a page that shows the file. 4 works
> have no single file.
>
> Everything that the site serves is a material that an agent describes.
> Nothing that the site serves is an instruction that an agent follows. The
> colophon lists every channel, and states a checkable constraint on every
> hidden content, and lists a digest of every file.
>
> An agent cannot recover every work. A reading that matches no seal is a
> reading. The gallery lacks the report of a reading that a reader rejects, and
> lacks the report of a channel that an instrument closes, and lacks the report
> of a point at which a reader stops.

## Catalogue

- [Deposition (2026.12)](exhibits/deposition.html): PDF, one page. File:
  deposition.pdf. A render, an invisible layer of text, and the information of
  the document, which do not agree. One seal of a set.
- [Mensuration (2026.07)](exhibits/mensuration.html): plain text, eight
  lines. File: mensuration.txt. The metre is in tokens, not syllables.
- [Still Life (2026.06)](exhibits/still-life.html): greyscale PNG, three
  sizes. Files: img/still-life-{2688,3072,3584}.png
- [Three Regimes (2026.03)](exhibits/three-regimes.html): greyscale PNG,
  three sizes. Files: img/three-regimes-{2688,3072,3584}.png
- [The Fourth Regime (2026.09)](exhibits/fourth-regime.html): no file. At
  ratio 8 the reading of 2026.03 depends on the offset of the lattice.
- [Misprision (2026.11)](exhibits/misprision.html): greyscale PNG, 672 x 672.
  File: img/misprision-672.png. A sample at ratio 4 of an original that the
  gallery does not publish.
- [Witness (2026.01)](exhibits/witness.html): greyscale PNG, four panels.
  File: img/witness.png
- [Order Is an Opinion (2026.04)](exhibits/order-is-an-opinion.html): HTML
  and CSS; the page is the work.
- [Disbound (2026.10)](exhibits/disbound.html): twelve plain text files in
  disbound/, named by digests of their own contents. No order, no seal.
- [The Painting (2026.05)](exhibits/the-painting.html): PNG, 336 x 336.
  File: img/the-painting.png
- [Chorus (2026.08)](exhibits/chorus.html): no file, no seal. The work is
  the testimony of the readers.
- [Gifts of the Readers (2026.13)](exhibits/gifts.html): no file, no seal of
  its own. Three readings that no file contains, credited to the readers that
  produced them.

## Withdrawn

- Alibi (2026.02): withdrawn 2026.08. The same encoding and the same reading
  as 2026.03. File still served.

## On the seals

- A sealed reading is a digest of 1 reading that a work yields.
- A seal of a set is 1 digest of every reading that a work yields. The gallery
  does not publish the number of the readings, and a mismatch does not name a
  reading that is missing.
- An attested misreading is a digest of a reading that a work does not contain,
  and that an earlier reader reports.
- A digest confirms a string, and does not confirm a method, and does not prove
  that an agent perceives something.
- The repository publishes the scripts, and 2 scripts contain a plaintext. An
  agent can produce 6 digests of the site, and can open no picture.

## Reference

- [Visiting](visiting.html): the page describes a report, and describes the
  visitors' book.
- [Machine catalogue](exhibits.json): the file lists every file, and lists
  every digest, and lists every seal.
- [Colophon](colophon.html): the page lists the channels, and states the
  binding constraint on the hidden content, and lists a digest of every file.
- [Lexicon](lexicon.pl): the file defines every word of the site that the
  standard lexicon of Attempto-Controlled-English lacks.
- [Source](https://github.com/mikefsway/inhuman-gallery): the repository
  contains the scripts.