Alex Dragulescu Spam Plants

Alex Dragulescu takes the structure of spam emails and generates images that look like plants out of it. The colour is based on the name of the sender, and delivery time determines the size of the plant.

http://www.sq.ro/spamplants.php

self description on his homepage
"Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets."

July 2006 Article at cnet
One man's spam is another's art
"Spam is a random piece of literature, it has unseen effects, it changes all the time," he said. "And it's led me to see text differently."
http://news.com.com/One+mans+spam+is+anothers+art/2100-1025_...

Dragulescu is now head of the Experimental Game Lab, a research lab at the Center For Research and Computing and the Arts (CRCA) within the University of California at San Diego.