Spamology by Irad Lee and Santiago Ortiz

http://iradlee.net/spamology/

The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.

“Spamology” by Irad Lee
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http://iradlee.net/spamology/
an audiovisual representation of word frequencies in spam email messages.

Spam, the digital garbage of our era, has become a mirror reflecting both our natural human necessities and the artificial necessities that the advertisement industry constantly attempts to stimulate in us. The individual who’s experiencing Spam, also acts as the main influencing factor over its content and behavior. Spam differs from any other kind of man-made trash; while garbage may reflect the individual’s lifestyle and needs, Spam works the other way around: it reflects the way in which the individual is seen in the digital world through an everlasting process of classification; The manner in which one “behaves” in the digital world may predict the kind of Spam that will arrive in his Email, and vice-versa, one’s Spam may imply his specific preferences, interests and perhaps factors in his personality.

Spamology is a part of ongoing research which aims at visualizing the links and interrelationships between the nature of Spam as a digital-cultural phenomenon, the user/individual and the society, by revealing patterns in Spam which may reflect cultural and social trends, behaviors and variations.

Spamology is an audiovisual representation of word frequencies in spam e-mail messages.
the visualization is based on analysis of a private archive of spam messages which were collected during 10 years (1998-2007),
containing up to 2,000,000 emails originated from various parts of the world.

Spamology is a part of ongoing research examining the nature of Spam as a digital-cultural phenomenon. The project aims at visualizing
the links and interrelationships between the contents of spam, the user/individual and the society, by revealing patterns in spam
which may reflect cultural and social trends, behaviors and variations.

** Due to software limitations, online version is currently missing audio **

enter Spamology [silent version]

- Santiago Ortiz

http://www.moebio.com/santiago/curriculum.html

http://www.medialabmadrid.org/medialab/

- Irad Lee

http://iradlee.net/contact/contact.html