“This is (not) a CAPTCHA Poem@”

Abstract

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.”

Keywords

• covid-19
• transfeminism
• technotext
• cyberpoetry