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Spam as an Art Form

Better than an Andy Warhol painting of cans of Hormel spam is Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu's "spam plants."

Dragulescu's fascination with the intersection of technology and human emotion gave birth to his interest in language analysis. He wrote a program that analyzes the relationships between elements of a spam email's SMTP header information. In order to get through sophisticated spam filtering software, a spam email's header can be very complex, . Dragulescu's plants develop organically as a result of the spam email's complexity.

Here's the article that led me to discover Alex Dragulescu.

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