In โJust in case,โ Thierry Fournier addresses the perception of digital systems as an Other by reversing the relationship between human and machine. Borrowing from the experience of solving captchas, the work sets up a fictional situation where itโs considered normal for a machine to detect whether or not someone is human all by itself.
In the piece, the screen shows a message that seems to come from a computer program that wonders if the person who observes it is human (โchecking you are humanโฆโ). It hesitates, calculates, and a wheel turns. Finally, it stops and displays a brief โthank you.โ Then it starts again, ad infinitum. A brief moment of doubt arises while the process runs, which is lifted when the animation starts againโonly to open up more questions.
As an animated GIF, this edition can be easily distributed via social media posts, messages, emails, and any other form of digital communication. In those spaces, it can be experienced outside of an artistic context as a way to hint at humansโ dystopian relationship with machines, or to question how to define what being human is.
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In โJust in case,โ Thierry Fournier addresses the perception of digital systems as an Other by reversing the relationship between human and machine. Borrowing from the experience of solving captchas, the work sets up a fictional situation where itโs considered normal for a machine to detect whether or not someone is human all by itself.
In the piece, the screen shows a message that seems to come from a computer program that wonders if the person who observes it is human (โchecking you are humanโฆโ). It hesitates, calculates, and a wheel turns. Finally, it stops and displays a brief โthank you.โ Then it starts again, ad infinitum. A brief moment of doubt arises while the process runs, which is lifted when the animation starts againโonly to open up more questions.
As an animated GIF, this edition can be easily distributed via social media posts, messages, emails, and any other form of digital communication. In those spaces, it can be experienced outside of an artistic context as a way to hint at humansโ dystopian relationship with machines, or to question how to define what being human is.