How to create writing and hybrid media publications from your junk mail folder.

Questions

How can spam be re-published whiles maintaining its networked aspect?
How can the characteristic elements of spam become apparent, when re-published?
What publishing strategies allow for those 2 aspects to be present?

Expectations

What do we intend to get out of the workshop?

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

The workshop 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 Consent to Print use? The spam itself, or the strategies? How do you think to go on about it?

Examples

the narratives described in spam, through their characters

As the same character might appear in a more than 1 one email
As characters are often actual living(or dead) characters
As they are often famous and with a large presence in the media
They are related to other characters outside the spam narratives

Characters' profiles can be drawn in great detail. And they can be interconnected to those related to them (both in spam narratives and in real-life). Such well web of strong characters opens up the possibility for re-writing the narrative between this characters

questions

what form to publish this network of characters so that their interconnections become apparent?
how does it allow expansion, speculation, for narratives to emerge from the vision of characters' relations?
could this be a final published object or it could be a intermediary to another publication.

the formulistic nature of spam

Spam's language and structure is quite identifiable. It reaffirms and repeats itself in almost every spam email.

With All Due Respect My name is morgan ashante am the manager of auditing and accounting department International commercial bank

I pray this proposal meet your kind co-operation. I am Mr. Mphilo Dlamini, the service Director/ Account Unit of First National Bank of South Africa.

My name is Mrs.Sonia Murphy am the manager of auditing and accounting department International commercial bank

My Name is Mrs.Janet Andrea. I am a dying woman who has decided to donate all that I have to charity through you.

My Name is Mr. Peter i am writing you this short note based on the latest development at my bank

What could be a publishing solution that would put a focus on this formulistic aspect o spam?

create head-body-and-legs with these sentences

Take a look at the spam emails collected at http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/django/acastro/collect_spam/spam/

See if there is something there that arouses your interest. How could that aspect of this raw material manifest itself in a publication? What form would that publication take? Paper? Digital? Sound

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

User:Andre Castro/2/Transmedial/spam transmedial

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