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:Spam != Art by tehwebguy · 2006-07-26 04:37 · Score: 4, Informative

this guy admits that his drawings are not good, but i think it is funny stuff: http://www.spamusement.com/

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Re:I need to get more sleep by elbenito69 · 2006-07-26 05:02 · Score: 2, Informative

I thought that too, and then remembered that it's come true already... the album covers for Metallica's Load and Reload albums are blood and sperm between plates of glass.