Janet Zweig, Lipstick Enigma with Franklyn Berry for the Harris Engineering Center at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. 2010. Photo Stephen Allen

There have been numerous computational “sentence generators” since at least Joseph Weizenbaum’s Eliza program, including one of my all time favorites, David Rokeby’s Giver of Names. What seems particularly successful about Janet Zweig’s latest public art project, Lipstick Enigma, which mixes the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising, is precisely how intelligible – and humorous – her sentences are. Some examples:

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