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Spam is a peculiar kind of (para)literature. Although it is not | Spam is a peculiar kind of (para)literature. Although it is not intended to be art, it employs artistic strategies in order to succeed in extorting money or collecting informations from its recipients. Like other genres of literature, spam possesses its own rules and reoccurring elements, such as narrative structure, characters, or tone. These persistent elements give spam a distinct character and make it easily identifiable, but also serve as insights into our contemporary global culture. By performing a print remediation of spam, we hope to highlight some of its distinguishable aspects. | ||
intended to be art, it employs artistic strategies in order to succeed in extorting | |||
money or collecting informations from its recipients. | |||
Like other genres of literature, spam possesses its own rules and reoccurring elements, such as narrative structure, characters, or tone. | |||
remediation, we hope to | |||
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Revision as of 11:10, 25 January 2013
Intro
Spam is a peculiar kind of (para)literature. Although it is not intended to be art, it employs artistic strategies in order to succeed in extorting money or collecting informations from its recipients. Like other genres of literature, spam possesses its own rules and reoccurring elements, such as narrative structure, characters, or tone. These persistent elements give spam a distinct character and make it easily identifiable, but also serve as insights into our contemporary global culture. By performing a print remediation of spam, we hope to highlight some of its distinguishable aspects.
Objective
Create a portrait of a character drawing from the spam archive; it doesn't necessarily need to be the sender! It could be a word, an amount of money, a date, etc. You can work both textually and image-wise, juxtaposing materials taken from the internet, reinterpreting the characters in a personal way and reflecting on the structure, the context and poetics of spam messages.
Rules
0. Split in groups of two; 1. Choose one (or more) spam email(s) from the archive (http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/django/acastro/collect_spam/spam/) or from your own spam folder; 2. Analyse the many elements that define the poetics of spam: sender, object, inner text, source code, attachments, browser interface, etc; 3. Work on the pdf template: this is basically composed of two pages 14.817cm x 20.99cm. You can use the digital or analog technique you prefer to fill those pages: paint, collage, calligraphy, photography, screenshot, frottage, etc. Just take into account that the final booklet will be printed in b/w; 4. Send your pdf to silviolorusso@gmail.com with object "RE:monosodium glutamate"
Conclusions
All pdfs will be merged together and the resulting booklet will represent a sort of “bestiary of spam characters”. The booklet will be available in print on demand on Lulu.com. Anyone will be able to purchase it for an extremely cheap price.