CAPTCHA Paintings

Human Error (7″x6″)

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CAPTCHA Painting 1 (7″x6″)

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CAPTCHA Painting 2 (7″x6″)

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I started this series after encountering CAPTCHAS on several major sites including Blogger, Yahoo and MSN. These codes are used to prove that the site’s users are human, and not a spam bot. The whole thing seems very “Blade Runner.” It was fun to take this computerized humanity test and paint them in oils, an all-too human process. To read more about CAPTCHAS visit the Wikipedia entry and to see a CAPTCHA in action, try entering a comment.

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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 Digital Life, Paintings

3 Comments to CAPTCHA Paintings

  1. ` NICE PAINTINGS!! I always used to draw and paint stuff like that….

  2. S E E Quine on July 12th, 2006
  3. awesome paintings!

  4. Sean on April 17th, 2009
  5. great idea!!

  6. Lukas on January 3rd, 2010

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