Dirt!@# is one of a series of audiovisual experiments looking into the nature and behavior of popular internet phenomenon. The work is based on the audiovisual output of a custom-built generative composition software that uses raw data from a private archive of electronic Spam (aka junkmail, abusive messaging systems), which has been archived for research and study purposes of the phenomenon.
Dirt!@# deals with consumption culture and society. It examines the medium of Spam as perceived by the individual, who in addition to experiencing Spam, might also act as the main influencing factor over its content and behavior. The generated audiovisual output continuously zooms into the details of Spam content and examines it both as a cultural and digital phenomenon, through its different common types. It attempts to represent Spam as a mirror reflecting both our natural human necessities and the artificial necessities that the advertisement industries stimulates in us.
