Spam Art
sound installation by Polina Dronyaeva
Interior-ity special project, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, October 2011
Selected exhibitions and presentations
For me, producing mash-ups is a non-informational way to respond to the spam or to the radio show. Like the audience in our sound
installations, here too I am emerged in the environment, of which I have no control: I cannot change the content of the incoming spam,
hardly can stop it to come into my mailbox, and even cannot respond to the mail. Unlike gallery visitors I cannot even leave the
environment, created for me by my mailbox! Thus the only way to ‘respond’ to it is to produce manipulations, by which I signal to myself
(not to the others) my own attitude towards the issue. I do not respond to the mail or the radio show, I respond to my own emotions
triggered by them. Thus my conduct becomes philosophy.
installations, here too I am emerged in the environment, of which I have no control: I cannot change the content of the incoming spam,
hardly can stop it to come into my mailbox, and even cannot respond to the mail. Unlike gallery visitors I cannot even leave the
environment, created for me by my mailbox! Thus the only way to ‘respond’ to it is to produce manipulations, by which I signal to myself
(not to the others) my own attitude towards the issue. I do not respond to the mail or the radio show, I respond to my own emotions
triggered by them. Thus my conduct becomes philosophy.
Polina Dronyaeva
More thoughts in Writings
Sonification of a real spam received in daily mail.
In my research on interactive arts I observe how the audience cope with unfamiliar and/or uncomfortable circumstances.
My own strategies to cope with informational flow (like unsolicited spam mail) also provide me with artistic material.
My own strategies to cope with informational flow (like unsolicited spam mail) also provide me with artistic material.