audio

spamology1.jpg

Spamology

author

Irad Lee

date

2007

project description

Spamology is a live 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. Spam data is audiovisualized in a 3D landscape, where popular words are represented as rectangular structures of various heights, illustrating the occurrence rate of each word in the archive year. Each word represents itself both in the visual
cricket.jpg

Crickets

author

judsoN

date

2008

project description

Did you know if you hear a cricket chirp you can get the temperature? They are surprisingly accurate little buggers too. Just count chirps for 17 seconds and add 40 to what you get. (Thanks Discover.) Step into the great outdoors. This piece monitors an accumulating the temperature in cities throughout the world. As the program gathers info, crickets gather in your computer. Soon their mating calls are juxtaposed, the range of weather gets interesting to hear. Sounds a little like a Steve Reich composition, no doubt.
screen4.jpg

AV Book - from Accessible Happiness series

author

Maya Kalogera

date

2005

project description

"anything that happens, happens. anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. it doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though." d.adams 12 pages of the hidden matrix of coincidences – reflecting the architecture of network memories. flip firmly! listen carefully!