spam.
the scourge of all people who use email as a major conduit of communication.
brent gustafson is an american video artist who uses video games as not only a form of inspiration but as a sort of base medium. he lent a piece to the gallery i work for last summer as part of a group show entitled "Gameplay: Video Games in Contemporary Art Practice". the piece was R.I.G. a "video of three games played simultaneously through one video connection." pretty cool. but the piece i really like is entitled AXBX and is a web based work. around the time this show was up i started collecting the strange gif attachments i was receiving in my spam. i have long been a fan/hater of spam. i hate the volume, but love the sometimes beautifully strange messages that are fabricated. i started collecting these gifs with the intention of doing some kind of collage or visual project with it. after studying AXBX, i saw an easy way to apply the new computer graphic structure to this style of presentation. unfortunately this trend of strange gif attachments seem to be out of vogue in the world of spammers and i'm worried that i will not be able to continue building the catalog of images it draws from. so as strange a request as this might sound, if anyone comes across really strange image attachments in their spam, send em my way.
so here 'tis.
A(JUN)XB(JUN)X
the scourge of all people who use email as a major conduit of communication.
brent gustafson is an american video artist who uses video games as not only a form of inspiration but as a sort of base medium. he lent a piece to the gallery i work for last summer as part of a group show entitled "Gameplay: Video Games in Contemporary Art Practice". the piece was R.I.G. a "video of three games played simultaneously through one video connection." pretty cool. but the piece i really like is entitled AXBX and is a web based work. around the time this show was up i started collecting the strange gif attachments i was receiving in my spam. i have long been a fan/hater of spam. i hate the volume, but love the sometimes beautifully strange messages that are fabricated. i started collecting these gifs with the intention of doing some kind of collage or visual project with it. after studying AXBX, i saw an easy way to apply the new computer graphic structure to this style of presentation. unfortunately this trend of strange gif attachments seem to be out of vogue in the world of spammers and i'm worried that i will not be able to continue building the catalog of images it draws from. so as strange a request as this might sound, if anyone comes across really strange image attachments in their spam, send em my way.
so here 'tis.
A(JUN)XB(JUN)X
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