World Premiere Prototype of B.A.D.
Bullshit Art Detector™
As any 3 card-trick hustler knows, legerdemain depends for its success on fooling all the audience all the time; any member of the crowd who could point out that the entire operation is a con must be silenced at once. But that was yesterday. For the sake of your sanity, 3rd Wave has undertaken a survey of not only the literature of essential characteristics of bullshit as part of our R&D on B.A.D.™, but also how it has transmogrified and infected contemporary art practices via the use of and abuse of International Art English, and ultimately was reborn into something now commonly known as artspeak.
In light of this, 3rd Wave, the Xevarion Institute and Ponoor Experiments Inc. embark on a collective crusade to bring you the world’s first Bullshit Art Detector (B.A.D.™). We are delighted to announce that after a full year of hard labour, we have now a fully automated syntactical analysis app that can help eliminate the brain fog for all art lovers by revealing the sorcery of artspeak and all its fallacies, where B.A.D.™ can successfully break down the cowflop that is being weaponised to mislead even the best of us.
Use B.A.D.™ to push back the sorcery of artspeak
Hark! An amazing new app that separates art from bullshit that the art world doesn’t want you to know is finally here! B.A.D.™ will make bullshit artists cry, and your friends can’t stop talking about it, so come to Catalyst to check out the prototype of B.A.D.™ now. The Bullshit Art Detector will make its debut in HEArtifact exhibition from November 2026, and you’re invited to field test the system before its general release as an Android app in 2027. Simply upload the image of the artwork in question, input an extract from a press release / artist statement / critical commentary with regard to its creative premises, and B.A.D.™ will be able to analyse the image using our own uniquely trained algorithm to distinguish, unpack and refute all the quantitative baloney at your fingertips.
Bullshit Art Detector (B.A.D.™ ) is the culmination of collaborative research and engineering efforts with Ponoor Experiment Inc.
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than {the need} to produce it.” - Brandolini's Principle 2014
The voluntary merger of International Art English (artspeak) and contemporary art has been providing the art world with infinite amounts of bullshit since its inception at the dawn of the postmodern era, which is still going strong. Whilst the notion of make-believe is a prerequisite for art to function, the art world is nevertheless awash with bullshit so deep that we’re drowning in it.
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than {the need} to produce it.”
- Brandolini's Principle 2014
World Premiere Prototype of B.A.D.
Bullshit Art Detector™
Bullshits Don't Make Art, But Some Art Smells Of Bullshit.
art = make believe ↔ palter
click counts × likes → bullshit