Irad Lee
Project date: January 2007
submitted 2009-01-13 17:37:34
Call: After the Net
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 and the audio domains; next to the visual representation, each word generates an audio signal with a frequency related to the number of times it occurred during a certain year. Words of various frequencies flow through the 3D landscape simultaneously, forming a constantly- changing sonic texture. 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. genre: netart / experimental net-data visualization
Format: online/offline real-time application
Genre: N/A
URL: http://www.iradlee.net/spamology
Artist Bio:
Irad Lee is an Amsterdam-based crossmedia artist/designer working with interactive audio systems, mobile music and experimental media design. He studied Sonology (Sound Design & Music Technology) at the Institute of Sonology, and Interactive/Media/Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.