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This is the content of the email that I sent in my preliminary spArt tests…..
I’m an Art Student, in Manchester (UK).
I’m mainly interested in working with computers, technology and the web - and finding interesting subjects within those areas to base my work on.
This will form part of my creative process.
I (literally) just had the idea of putting a computer in an art gallery, connected to the internet and constantly trawling the web for email addresses. This is exactly the same process that some internet marketeers (as they might like to be called) otherwise known as “spamsters” use to gather some of the email addresses that form their spam lists.
My motives however aren’t to lure people into a scam or for some other commercial purpose. I’d like to see if I could have a computer that is constantly collecting new email addresses, and that would also receive a constant stream of replies - as the message is worthy of response, and is not spam.
All the responses would be displayed on the computer in the art gallery.
Something along those lines anyway……
As a sort of preliminary dry run, I’ve just gathered 500 email addresses from the web and I’m testing out the idea with them. If you’re reading this, then you were one of the 500 I got in my initial run.
Do you understand the idea? If so what do you think?
Any thoughts would be great!
Also, if you want to find out a bit more about me, have a look at my website; joesart.org (however watch out, its kind of a work in progress….)
Many thanks! And I apologise for filling up your inbox :o)
Joe
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