Questions

How can spam be re-published whiles maintaining its networked aspect?
How can the the characteristic elements of spam can apparent, when re-published?

This are the main questions from which we would like the workshop to depart.

Expectactions

What do we intend to get out of the wokshop?

new insights of what elements are specific to spam.
concepts/prototypes for spam publishing

The worskhop will cross-fade to Consent to Print, that will use it as the raw material to explore consensus/dissent based editorial practice. Question is what will you use? The spam itslef, or the strategies? How do you think to go on about it?

Taking email spam we'll suggest participants to come up with strategies of publishing spam under a physical (possibly paper) format.

We'd like the proposals not to crystallize spam, but to keep its movement, it network and ever-changing nature. However repetition is also a very strong characteristic of spam, that could be explored.

Possibilities for publishing:

The database: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/django/acastro/collect_spam/spam/

go through a spam database and