[-empyre-] Question

[sdv at krokodile.co.uk]

Jason/all

One of the now defunkt net-art lists was once inhabited by a net-artist 
who used to glory in the idea of spam-as-art, s/he had no reason, 
logical or otherwise for declaring that the spam and porn  was  art but 
did so anyway. I suppose your justification is better than his, but if 
seperated from the in-joke it still seems to suffer from the same 
problem that 'spam-as-art' did, namely that it vanishes into the ever 
increasing amounts of endless rubbish that constitutes the net.

However this snail mail joke is charming and might be suitably random  
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4162471.stm...



s



Jason Nelson wrote:
> Sure......I suppose the same could be said for much of experimental
> fiction or abstract art etc....the idea that unexpected posts might
> appear to be spam at first is a valid concern.....
>
> but much like graffiti or other tagging, the art comes from posting
> something that both "fits in that net space" and creates an interesting
> part of a narrative or simply a pretty micro fiction or even a non
> sensical poem....
>
> these places where users can enter data and briefly express themselves
> are quickly becoming a powerful form of written communication and
> therefore we creative types must begin to explore those conduits 
> as venues/canvasses for interesting words....
>
> so I suppose I would throw it back to you and say write something
> that doesnt seem spam like.....
>
> cheers, Jason
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, sdv at krokodile.co.uk <sdv at krokodile.co.uk> wrote:
>
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>> From: sdv at krokodile.co.uk <sdv at krokodile.co.uk>
>> Subject: [-empyre-] Question
>> To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 11:44 AM
>> All,
>>
>> Reading a few of the notes that have been written on the
>> net, I realized that I could see no difference between the
>> text and the average piece of spam that is automatically
>> deleted either from emails or sites.
>>
>> What justification can you produce for this proliferation
>> of text?
>>
>> s
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