User:Andre Castro/2/semina aymeric

Seminar with Aymeric

Blog

• The Head Body Legs of Spam book

Mini Projects

• The Head Body Legs of Spam book

Reports on works

• Spam Graffiti by David Chien

Sessions Notes

• Sessions' Notes

Andre

• two forms of spam:
  • crafty spam
  • automated cyber crime forms of spam

feedback on essay

• digital folklore - its definition is not clear enough to base the thesis on it
• asking if spam is a cultural artifact, its maybe stating the obvious. It doesn't need to be proved.
• what will be the thesis angle ?
  • literary criticism
  • ethnographic - create a map of the current forms of operation of spam
  • culture studies - the evolution of spam (has been written by A.Ludovico, and in Spamology article)

feedback of work

• choose your own adventure
• hypertext fiction

• both contain the danger of diluting of the story - i don't have to add another layer to it
• how the personal conversations get - the real stories behind it (??)

• the use of hyper-fiction to document could work
• parallel universe going on 24/7(??)

connecting facts and traces

• showing the different narrative, that by placed together the fiction emerge
• the stories that are within the email

• what i want to tell? stick to fiction, or show what is behind the curtain - double narrative?

next small project

• map the interaction within all the emails

Aymeric: afraid that there is not that much inter-relations within the material is there a mythology to be written about this characters or is simply a collections of small stories? how far can be the these inter-links go? what i want to communicate with the richness of this material ?

• once this information is mapped try to render this connections and materials