NEW YORK (AP) -- How do I spam thee? Let me count the ways.
Instead of just cursing the steady assault of e-mail in their inboxes, a trio of artists have put unsolicited e-mail on parade. They've even found poetry in it.
"Reimagining the Ordovician Gothic: Fossils from the Golden Age of Spam" considers how future historians might see us if the only window into our culture they had was a vast collection of junk e-mail.
There are back lit flow charts, dioramas, a pile of pornography.
A classification scheme, true to the paleontological theme, divides spam into such categories as Real Estate, Urgent Messages, Work at Home, Goods and Personal Appearance.
The three 25-year-old artists scrawled excerpts from e-mails graffiti-style over an entire stairwell and filled suitcases with the goods advertised in spam to represent the medium's empty promises. Diet pills and house blueprints both feature prominently.
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