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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
I would imagine after a days work, this guy goes for some roast quail and sips at his Earl Grey.
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)
I can't find anything in his statements that implies this.