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Narratives of Deception

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Bringing to stage the exotic and interweaving network of stories told in spam emails.

(A black karaoke screen: where one of the stories is written in bright colors)

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About (Page)

Narratives of Deception

(What)

• An Operetta
• Written entirely from spam email
• Aims
  • communicate the fascinating stories that otherwise would be lost in the confines of our junk mail folders
  • reveal the interconnected, ever-evolving, and appropriative character of these stories

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(How)

• Compilation and organization of spam fraud emails (known as 419s advance fee fraud emails), according to a characters' topology.
• Each fraud email features one character as the posing author of the email
• The posing author is without exception part of a finite topology of characters: a banker, a soldier, a rich widow, a politician's relative;
• The story told by each posing author is essentially the same.
• Algorithmic analysis of the various messages written by the given posing author
• These various messages are re-organized so that the common elements, among this body of similar text become perceptible
• The re-organized stories are made visible through a karaoke screen
• The karaoke screen will conduct performers in their interpretation of the fraud stories.

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(Why)

• fascinating and exotic stories, that deserve to be told to audiences
• spam is more than deceptive and unsolicited for of online advertising,
• a rich, creative and constantly evolving field
• using the most unthinkable tactics to contour spam filtering mechanism, disguise itself as legitimate communication, while seducing us with promises of wealth, happiness, and pleasure.

Blog (Page)

• current stage of development - karaoke
• workshop at transmeial and booklet

Contact (Page)

• email
• Bio