Projects using spam and making visualitions about it or using it:
A book that illustrates the scam-mail from Africa. Like the author says," The African scam-mails differ from other fraudulent e-mails in their creativity, audacity and their ludicrous claims. They are fancifully written and thrilling to read".
Interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. The artist created a specific email account to receive spam email and expose that email account to several websites, hoping to be tracked by bots and spammers. Spam Traps are usually used to catch spam.
screensaver that endlessly request data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam emails, with the aim of increasing server load on those sites to the point their operation became unprofitable ( project finished)
The attributes of the plants are defined by spam emails. Subject lines, headers & footers are parsed: it detected relations btw data: IP addresses form sender are used to change color, from 0 to 255; the time defines if the plant is smaller(morning) or larger (evening); the size of the msg influences how bushy the plant is; certain keywords might trigger more branches ( viagra is not used to make it taller)
SpamGraffiti
Online Visualizations created from spam messages received by # emails accounts.
Spam appears as layers and time is used to overlap each one ( the newest is one the top)Each email accounts appears visually different, in order to compare them.
"A physical data visualization system that models a bio-degradable, starch-based block of foam using spam & email as stimuli. Based on the content of an email, the system rotates the block & lowers or raises the sprayer, to erode parts of the foam with sprays of water." (scr= information aesthetics)
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