INSTITUTE OF MACHINE UNLEARNING
Public Experiments: CAPTCHURED

What does access mean when machines decide who gets in? Who is seen, mistranslated, or filtered out by machines? Who gets to say what makes someone human?

Instead of clicking through boxes to prove we’re human, what if we could invent our own tests of belonging? This time we step outside the boxes and rooms to be CAPTCHURED in this partly walking, partly making participatory workshop by Institute of Machine Unlearning. 

Participants gathered images from the surrounding environment to form personal datasets, then transformed these into CAPTCHAs that resist recognition.

The resulting works were invited to contribute to CAPTCHURED, a participatory artwork and growing archive of subversive puzzles that resist verification.