Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. All rights are reserved. This chapter is an edited conversation on the topic of computational evaluation of artistic artefacts. The participants were Harold Cohen, Frieder Nake, David Brown, Jon McCormack, Paul Brown and Philip Galanter. It began at the Dagstuhl seminar on computers and creativity, held in Germany in 2009 and continued over a period of several months via email. The participants discuss their views on the prospects for computational evaluation of both the artistic process and the made artefact.
