One Man's Spam Is Another Man's Art

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @04:17AM from the bah-i-used-spam-as-art-in-college dept.

mytrip writes "Most people see Viagra ads and Nigerian scams as simply more e-mail to delete. Alex Dragulescu sees art. For the last several years, the Romanian-born computer artist has applied techniques in computational modeling and information visualization to invent a new form of artistic expression. One of his more notable projects involved creating what he calls Spam Plants. He wrote algorithms that analyzed various text and data points of junk e-mail to produce "organic" images of plantlike structures that spontaneously grew based on incoming spam. "

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Re:No, this is not art by John+Nowak · 2006-07-26 06:01 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Oh for fucks sake, shut the fuck up. I can't believe people are still bringing out this stupid fucking definition nowadays. You haven't a fucking clue what you're talking about.

And yes, that's about the level of reasoning my argument should contain, because that's about the level of reasoning you're putting into it.

It's art if someone says it is! Drop this absolutist crap already.