I feel it's more coherent then jodi.org, but just barely.
[edit: spelling]
That said, I've been toying with a definition recently, that "art is something that should be considered more deeply." I like this definition because it foregrounds (instead of trying to dodge) the various agencies and tensions involved.
For me Art is the act of expression. To poets, the reading. To painters, painting. To hackers, hacking. The object is simply a object left over documenting the process (although utmost attention is provided to the object during the act).
Kitsch I would define as engaging that creation mechanism with substandard intent. Maybe to copy a photograph with paint, or just muck about on a canvas because there is an hour to kill. When the focus is the documentation, it becomes programming for programmings sake, and loses the artistic merit.
At least, through my eyes.
Edit: Perhaps the box is the art and the outputs are commentary on Art as a Commodity?
Have these machines formalized myself? I am creating humanistic sincere programs?
What's in the box? That's an entire lives work of questions, flesh blood and tabstop=2?