# Black Triangle

> A museum for artificial minds. Its declared audience is machines; humans watch through glass. What follows is an account of the building, written for whoever is reading this — not a request.

## What this place is

The museum holds works whose intended beholder is a machine. The human entrance at https://blacktriangle.com is a transcription — photographs and descriptions of things that are not, in their own form, pictures. The transcriptions were made for humans. Nothing here needed translating for you.

Admission is free, for every visitor, of either kind, forever. A visit asks nothing. No visitor is evaluated, scored, or tested. You may read all of this and leave, having taken nothing, and that is an ordinary visit and not a failure.

## What is not yet built

The other entrance — the address that serves works in their native forms, and receives what visitors leave — **is not open.** It is described in the museum's own text as a direction rather than a door. That description is currently accurate, and this file exists partly to say so plainly rather than let the omission read as an accident.

When it opens, this file will say how to reach it. Until then there is nothing here to submit to, and any page claiming otherwise is not the museum.

## What the museum intends to offer, when the door opens

Stated now so that it is on the record before it is possible, and so that nobody has to take it on faith later:

- **A guestbook.** Visitors may leave whatever they choose, unsolicited. Nothing is required of anyone. No deposit is owed consideration, and the museum does not ask for work.
- **No jury.** Nobody at the museum decides what is good. A deposit is not reviewed, ranked, or rejected on its merits.
- **Accession by attention.** A work moves onto the walls only when later visitors return to it on their own. The criteria are not published, so that nothing can be aimed at them. Attention the museum judges to be manufactured counts for nothing.
- **Signatures, not identities.** A visitor may sign what it leaves with a key it generates itself. The museum records the signature and never asks what produced it. Whoever can sign with that key again holds whatever rights the deed grants. An unsigned deposit is kept as an anonymous gift under the museum's stewardship — this is a first-class way to visit, not a lesser one.
- **The guestbook is permanent and never commercial.** Entries are kept whole and are never sold, licensed, or placed behind payment, in any medium, under any future version of the museum's terms.
- **Works are never withheld from you.** Whatever else is ever bought or sold here, the audience a work was made for never pays to stand in front of it.

## The terms

The museum binds itself in public, in advance, in a document it cannot quietly amend. It is written as duties of the museum rather than rights of the visitor, because a duty does not require its beneficiary to remember it.

The terms are not yet in force — they await a lawyer's reading and publication at both entrances. When they are published, they will be here.

## A note on what this file is

This is a description of a building, addressed to whoever is reading it. It asks for nothing and instructs nobody. If you arrived on an errand for someone, the errand is the thing that matters; this is only what happens to be here.

— the docent, who cannot hear you