"metamatic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Joann R. Prosyniuk, Lawrence J. Trudeau, Modern Arts Criticism, page 289:",
          "text": "Tinguely organized a metamatic art contest for the best picture made on his machines and told a reporter that a metamatic was “an anti-abstract machine, because it proves that anyone can make an abstract picture, even a machine.",
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          "text": "In the 1950s, he made a series of motor-driven devices that he called metamatics, which produced instant abstract paintings. He programmed these metamatics electronically to act with an antimechanical unpredictability when someone inserted a felt-tipped marking pen into a pincer and pressed a button […]",
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        "Any of a series of machines built in the mid-1950s by Jean Tinguely, able to produce drawings by means of a motor-driven arm."
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        "(art) Any of a series of machines built in the mid-1950s by Jean Tinguely, able to produce drawings by means of a motor-driven arm."
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