Monday, November 27, 2006

noise to signal


a speech occulter.
vanishing among the shrubs. We grabbed up our packs and followed.

This is an image+poem I made out of email spam. I like spam that has strange blocks of text surrounding the central html or jpeg advertisement about stocks or medication. Sometimes they have a weird lyricism. I've been editing the blocks of text down to 'spam poems,' or I've been taking the shorter ones wholesale (like the example above). Then I do google image search on each word in the poem, and take the first image that comes up for each search. I make the composite image out of these harvested images.

A basic human project is finding a meaningful patterns in chaos. I'm trying to explore this idea with this body of work. I'm not sure if the resulting images are successful.

more of this work can be seen here: exquisite corpse