“This is (not) a CAPTCHA Poem@”
On Language, Algorithm and Representation in the Time of Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_11-1_3Keywords:
covid-19, transfeminism, technotext, cyberpoetryAbstract
Mar y virus/Virus and the Sea is a multimodal e-lit project directly responding to the impact of COVID-19 on society and the environment, providing technological and aesthetic opportunities for connection and collaboration/sharing of the collective experience. This project addresses the precarity of human agency —and its exclusionist reference to (hu)Man,— from a post-humanism ignited by the devastating crisis caused by the Anthropocene. The installation and project “Mar y virus / Virus and the Sea” reconceptualizes multiple combinatory electronic options that address, among other levels, a crisis of representation in the time of the COVID 19 pandemic. The technotexts presented in this project, such as the Poem@CAPTCHA, request recognition and proof, a test of what subtly makes us human, based on the principles of inclusion, connection, transfeminism and cyberpoetry, a test that potentially points to a new and necessary metanarrative of collaboration and technology-based connection/alliance: “Share your COVID story.”
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