ARTWORK DETAILS
David Aston
Attest you are human
C-Prints
17 H x 3 x 9 D cm
2017
“A “CAPTCHA” is a turing test to tell human and bots apart.”
FURTHER DETAILS
The Attest you are human series looks for the humorous, profound and ironic at the point in human evolution where we have to confirm our humanity to machines. The series explores the possible play on the words and multiple interpretations of the request to ‘attest you are human’ as well as the randomness associated with a reverse Turing Test who's method of evaluating humanity is the selection of nine images containing signs, cars, lampposts, shopfronts and bridges.
The words sit in a heavily contrasted landscape as alien as the request. The remote lunar-like landscapes of the Peruvian desert, a world far removed from the world of humans and machines. Tracks lead from the foreground to the words before disappearing into the landscape behind, directing your eyes to the words as well as signposting the possible future direction of travel.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Kühlhaus, Berlin
BBA Gallery Art Prize in June 2022
Large scale Attest you are human
2021 - Scottish Royal Academy Annual Exhibition
Large scale Attest you are human https://www.rsaannualexhibition.org/content/viewing-room/49/artworks-6927-david-aston-a-test-you-are-human/
2019 - The Other Art Fair, London
TALKS & EDUCATION
2022 - Kühlhaus, Berlin - BBA Gallery
COLLECTIONS
A large version of Attest you are human is in an American collection.
PUBLICATIONS
Attest you are human art book is available on blurb.
