Turing back to the origin! Rethinking about Spam and see how much I can push forward to the artwork and the concept.
Spam as one of the common phenomenon in the network and digital culture. It gets hidden easily through the technique of spam filtering. It gets evolve as virus and can destroy/manipulate/misuse computer data once the users open it and execute it.
Spam - being both commodities and wastes
Inspiration / food for thoughts from the book "The Spam Book" (2009)
- 40% email traffic is spam
- 12.4 billion spam emails are sent daily
- regard as digital waste
- important part of network culture
- p.4: "Whether they are seen as novel business opportunities or playing the part of the unwanted in the emerging political scenarios of network futures, anomalous objects, far from being abnormal, are constantly made use of in a variety of contexts, across numerous scales."
-p.10: "proposed by Paul Virilio: that is a need to reverse the idea of accidents as contingent and substances as absolute and necessary. Virilio's apocalypitc take on Western media culture argues for the inclusion of the potential (and gradual actualization) of the general accident taht relates to a larger ontological shift undermining the spatio-temporal coordinates of culture."
"Virilio has argued that accidents should be seen as incidental to technologies and modernity. The stance recapitulates the idea that modern accidents do not happen through the force of an external influence, like a storm, but are much more accurately follow-ups or at least functionally connected with, the original design of that technology."
-p.165: "spam remains an integral part of the everyday experiences of Internet usage" "spam is sent to massive address datbases and circulated internationally" "Spam promotes everything from irresistible mortgage bargains to fast access to .....from ready-made college diplomas to lottery award notifications, and commercial pornography sites."
- p.167: "According to Gillian Reynolds and Catrina Alferoff, in the United Kingdom, "demographic detail, income, sending and credit card transactions, as well as court judgements, are logged into databases and subsequently merged with other databases files from lifestyle questionnaires, retailer returns and market research."
Spam as one of the common phenomenon in the network and digital culture. It gets hidden easily through the technique of spam filtering. It gets evolve as virus and can destroy/manipulate/misuse computer data once the users open it and execute it.
Spam - being both commodities and wastes
Inspiration / food for thoughts from the book "The Spam Book" (2009)
- 40% email traffic is spam
- 12.4 billion spam emails are sent daily
- regard as digital waste
- important part of network culture
- p.4: "Whether they are seen as novel business opportunities or playing the part of the unwanted in the emerging political scenarios of network futures, anomalous objects, far from being abnormal, are constantly made use of in a variety of contexts, across numerous scales."
-p.10: "proposed by Paul Virilio: that is a need to reverse the idea of accidents as contingent and substances as absolute and necessary. Virilio's apocalypitc take on Western media culture argues for the inclusion of the potential (and gradual actualization) of the general accident taht relates to a larger ontological shift undermining the spatio-temporal coordinates of culture."
"Virilio has argued that accidents should be seen as incidental to technologies and modernity. The stance recapitulates the idea that modern accidents do not happen through the force of an external influence, like a storm, but are much more accurately follow-ups or at least functionally connected with, the original design of that technology."
-p.165: "spam remains an integral part of the everyday experiences of Internet usage" "spam is sent to massive address datbases and circulated internationally" "Spam promotes everything from irresistible mortgage bargains to fast access to .....from ready-made college diplomas to lottery award notifications, and commercial pornography sites."
- p.167: "According to Gillian Reynolds and Catrina Alferoff, in the United Kingdom, "demographic detail, income, sending and credit card transactions, as well as court judgements, are logged into databases and subsequently merged with other databases files from lifestyle questionnaires, retailer returns and market research."
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