In 1998, Nick Philip created an art installation to visualize the amount of spam on the Net. Nick directs you to a row of garbage cans placed below twelve fax machines at Tokyo’s Intercommunications Center. This is how when they are printed out.

“Confronted with 57,000 feet of thermal garbage, Nowhere instantly lets you experience, touch, hear and smell a small part of this incredibly vast media landscape, at the same time making a tongue in cheek nod to the fact that the more things change the more they stay the same,” Philip says.

Emails are copied as they pass through nowhere.com on to their final destination. They are distributed through 12 fax modems and then printed by 12 fax machines. Thermal paper is collected in trash cans, then allowed to overflow onto the gallery floor.

[via Neatorama]