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Spam art is getting bigger and bigger these days, there's some 40k hits for "spam art" in google. I'm trying to find this one project I found which turned spam email headlines into re-rendered porn (and so on) made out of colourised headlines, it was really awesome.
I also found this, by our very own Mr. Coates.
Ah, here it is, good old Rhizome. They've got a lot of art projects which show up when you type 'spam' into their search box.
Also, I think the text is generated by a program written by a guy called hip(word for breaking the law) (I'd put it in full, but years past, he used to search for sites mentioning him and spam them to death, so just in case he's still active, I won't).
I personally have made something similar, though it's full of more random letters and makes less sense, called autotransformer's smorgasbord, which I made by turning a text (Philip K Dick's... confessions of a crap artist, I think) sideways, and running the resultant jumble through a spellchecker. It's hard to parse, but does have some really awesome phrases in it (like its title). It's quite interesting to try and read it out loud, making the fragments into words if you can. Or, at least, reduced a room full of my friends to tears of laughter, but that might have been at me, not it. |
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- until this afternoon.