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Here at Neatorama, we’ve covered a variety of projects by artist Aram Bartholl. He has filmed people living out their World of Warcraft characters, made a giant Google Maps marker, and placed CAPTCHAs in real life. Bartholl’s latest project is called “Dead Drops.” He stuck five USB flash drives into walls around New York City and invited people to download from or upload content to them.
Link via CrunchGear | Photo: Aram Bartholl
German artist Aram Bartholl often juxtaposes online life with real life, as seen in his giant Google Maps indicators and actualization of World of Warcraft avatars. One of his recent projects is to place CAPTCHAs — the images of letters and numbers used to prevent computers from creating accounts with online services — in public spaces. Bertholl places them next to graffiti tags because graffiti, like CAPTCHAs, are codes that can only be read by certain people. The project is called “Are You Human?”
via Make | Artist’s Website
This 1996 2006 WoW project by Aram Bartholl let people "play" as their World of Warcraft avatars in real life.
If your name is Leeroy Jenkins, you’d have to use big fonts 
The WoW project takes this mode of publicizing players’ names that’s typical of online 3D worlds and transfers it into the physical domain of everyday life. Participants of the WoW-workshop will be able to construct their own name out of cardboard and then parade around in public with it hovering above their head. What happens when a person’s customary anonymity in the public sphere is obliterated by the principles operative in virtual worlds online?
