One Man's Spam Is Another Man's Art

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

[cprior]

Hey, you elitist PhDs!

I clicked into this thread from alterslash because I thought that (after the OPs lame start) a somehow interesting discussion on what art is commenced.

But all I find is this short-sighted stuff! /.-crowd 2 teh rescue!

[TM], of course ;)