CAPTCHA technology was invented as an online verification system to prevent malicious bot programs from infiltrating websites. The Antibot T-shirts online service allows people to design T-shirts using CAPTCHA images – distorted letters and numbers that are legible only to humans, not to bots – as their graphic design. As the title suggests, these T-shirts are intended as statements of one’s refusal to be decoded by bots; as such, it presupposes a world in which humans and bots coexist, a setting that is straight out of science fiction.

Support: Hirado Sanpei