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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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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



(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.



(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.

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

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  • email
  • Bio