CAPTCHAs in Real Life


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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

Artsy Fartsy Yuppie trying to be different and "blend in" with urban artists, imo.
I would imagine after a days work, this guy goes for some roast quail and sips at his Earl Grey.
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The captcha thing might be cool on a wall in an IT department because the IT guys would understand it. Captchas vary too much to be recognizable. Some are words, others are just a combo of numbers and letters. Some have strikes through them and others are warped. No one would look at that and say, "Oh! It's a captcha!"

The other problem is that a captcha has a function and this "art" doesn't play on any of it's uses. It would have been slightly better if it was smaller and put over a doorknob. Prove that you're human before you enter.

Placing that captcha next to/over graffiti is pointless. It just looks like graffiti and it doesn't mean anything. I agree with the other poster, this guy sounds like he's trying to be too artsy fartsy. Graffiti is already a captcha. It feels like he's trying to take an image and stretch it to fit a cause.

-NotBanksy (I swear)
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Does he not realize its to stop bots not people who aren't human. Watched about a minute and he actually thinks there are people who aren't human going onto sites that require captchas :/
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NotBansky pretty much summed it up for me. Put them near doors or ATMs, etc., as if pulling something from the online world into the real world.
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"Does he not realize its to stop bots not people who aren't human. Watched about a minute and he actually thinks there are people who aren't human going onto sites that require captchas"

I can't find anything in his statements that implies this.
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