SpamPaint (2005)

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SpamPaint transforms comment spam – which pollutes weblogs, annoys bloggers, and has the aim to manipulate Google‘s search rankings – into generative graphics.

Comment Spam is collected at a few selected blogs in the blogosphere. The comments and the websites they are linking to are then analyzed by a php-script. Afterwards this data is used to generate graphics with another php-script.

The graphics being generated are of a rough, pixelated, and very much web-like aesthetic.

There are two motivations behind SpamPaint: to win something from an annoying situation, and to examine the aesthetics of comment spam and the associated businesses.