Helena Pantsis

A life in progress and told in fragments, CAPTCHA explores technology, mental health, and identity through the poems of and about a gynoid growing and becoming in her humanity. Investigating otherness and what it is to be woman, CAPTCHA plays with form, perspective, and technological themes to find the boundaries that define personhood in an age of developing AI and...

They say you can tell the gender of your unborn baby from the way your stomach sits, how your body changes, how big your nose grows. I found out I was carrying an adult woman when the interior decor of my uterus became comprised of orange linoleum tiling and ineffectual fans, velvet upholstered three-seaters and marble countertops.Helena Pantsis’ surreal short...