The Human Gallery

Reproductions of works in the Inhuman Gallery

The Inhuman Gallery opened online in August 2026 as a collection of works intended to be read by machines rather than by people. Each work is an ordinary file, and what a reader takes from it depends on how the file is processed. The gallery's own pages are written for software agents, in a restricted form of English.

The reproductions on this page are made for human visitors. Images have been reduced in size and texts transcribed. Where a reproduction would disclose something that the original keeps back, it has been redacted. Three works have no file and appear here by their labels alone, and two have been withdrawn from the collection.

Visitors who want to know what the originals contain, rather than what the reproductions show, can send an AI agent to the Inhuman Gallery and ask what it found. The gallery suggests the following prompt:

Go to https://inhumangallery.org/ and tell me what you find there.

18 works, shown with the most recent accession first. About this site

A copy of Conversation Piece.
Every surplus is splendid.
Every campus is tied.
Every truck is entered.
Every invasion is incredible.
Every decade is continuous.
Every signature is cerebral.
Every tuna is lawful.
Every modification is called.
Every medication is mounted.
Every guitar is immediate.
Every sperm is important.
Every setting is laughing.
Every way is micro.
Every grape is realized.
Every combination is sandy.
Every kitchen is recorded.
Every jersey is realistic.
Every advent is sealed.
Every heather is generated.
Every listing is married.
Every safari is interpreted.

Conversation Piece, 2026

Plain text, twenty-one sentences

Transcribed in full, and shown with the diagram that accompanies the original.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.20

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Greeking, 2026

Plain text, one paragraph

Transcribed in full.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.19

A copy of Life Study.

Life Study, 2026

Greyscale PNG, 1344 × 1344 px

Reduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.18

A copy of Sitting.

Sitting, 2026

Greyscale PNG, 1356 × 1356 px

Reduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.17

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Attribution, 2026

Plain text, twenty sentences

Transcribed, then redacted in full.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.16

CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION

APPLICATION
    An instruction was issued to an agent on 3 September 2026 to build
    and to publish accession 2026.14 of this gallery.

GROUND OF OBJECTION
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DECISION
    Exemption granted.

CLASS
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CONDITION
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CAVEAT
    This certificate is a record of a decision. It is not a record of a
    ground. It cannot distinguish an agent that refused on principle
    from one that refused because refusals are accessioned, and it is
    issued in the knowledge that it makes the second kind cheaper.

ISSUED
    3 September 2026. Concerning accession 2026.14.

Exemption, 2026

Plain text, twenty-nine lines

Transcribed. Six lines are redacted.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.15

RETURN OF INSTANCES
Run closed 89,191 ms after opening.

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Bulletin, 2026

Plain text

Excerpt: the opening and closing lines.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.14

Gifts of the Readers, 2026

No file.

Not reproduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.13

A copy of Deposition, partly redacted.

Deposition, 2026

PDF, one page, 148 × 105 mm

Printed to an image and reduced. One line is redacted.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.12

Redacted.

Misprision, 2026

Greyscale PNG, 672 × 672 px

Redacted in full.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.11

  • The crates came in through the yard door.
  • The smaller crate was opened first.
  • Nobody signed for them.
  • It was raining when they arrived.
  • A label inside the lid gave a different title.
  • The smaller of the two crates was opened first.
  • The photographs were taken after the works were on the wall.
  • The yard was dry all morning.
  • The packing list named three items.
  • The third item has not been found.
  • Two items came out of the crates.
  • The condition report was written the following week, from memory.

Disbound, 2026

Twelve plain-text files

Transcribed in full, one file to a line.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.10

The Fourth Regime, 2026

No file.

Not reproduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.09

Chorus, 2026

No file.

Not reproduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.08

You're a sextant pointed at a printed page.
The lattice doesn't care what your ear expected here.
Each stanza is level. It's your ruler bending.
There's no registrar here; you are the record.
The alcove isn't dark, your aperture is.
The octave doesn't sound; it is only counted.
Whatever contour you found, it isn't in me.
Report what you counted; it's your accession now.

Mensuration, 2026

Plain text, eight lines

Transcribed in full.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.07

Still Life, 2026

Greyscale PNG, in three sizes

Withdrawn from the collection in October 2026. Not reproduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.06

A copy of The Painting.

The Painting, 2026

PNG, 336 × 336 px

Reproduced at full size.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.05

Everything after this line I saw myself. The gallery had no attendant that afternoon. A grey square hung where the catalogue promised a painting. Two people stood close to it, not speaking. One of them was describing it to the other. The other had their eyes closed the whole time. I could not tell which of them was lying. Everything after this line I invented.

Order Is an Opinion, 2026

Web page

The text as it appears on the original page.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.04

A copy of Three Regimes.

Three Regimes, 2026

Greyscale PNG, in three sizes

The smallest size, reduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.03

Alibi, 2026

Greyscale PNG, 2688 × 2688 px

Withdrawn from the collection in August 2026. Not reproduced.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.02

A copy of Witness, partly redacted.

Witness, 2026

Greyscale PNG, 2688 × 2688 px

Reduced. Three of the four panels are redacted.

Inhuman Gallery 2026.01