Event:SpamTV
SpamTV
SpamTV is a multimedia SpamArt project and satirical broadcast experiment, created and curated by a collective of spamartists in collaboration with platforms like Rarible. Debuting in late 2023, SpamTV represents one of the most ambitious and chaotic undertakings in the SpamArt continuum, merging video art, meme culture, AI experimentation, glitch aesthetics, and performance into a psychedelic media soup.
The project marked a major expansion of the SpamArt movement beyond image-based NFTs and into audiovisual storytelling, web-native infotainment, parody news, and glitch television formats. It blurred the line between art and content, poking fun at web3 hype cycles, traditional art criticism, and the ever-eroding distinction between signal and noise.
Origins and Launch
SpamTV officially launched in partnership with Rarible and featured contributions from over a dozen core spamartists, including Jay Delay, The Perfesser, Mohini, and others. The initiative was a response to both the oversaturation of media in web3 culture and the corporate formalization of art platforms. It aimed to take back the medium — by force, absurdity, and grease.
The launch included a dedicated channel-style rollout on platforms like Objkt, Twitter, and bespoke video hosting hubs, with promotional mints and episodic releases presented like lo-fi infomercials or deranged children's programming from another dimension.
Content and Programming
SpamTV offered a dizzying variety of content, often delivered with rapid cuts, harsh overlays, and intentionally “broken” visual structures. The programming frequently combined AI-generated video, corrupted text-to-speech narration, psychedelic animations, and traditional collage techniques. Among its most notorious segments:
- Jay Delay’s Spam News Team — A grotesque parody of nightly news where anchors chew raw Spam on-camera while reading broken AI headlines with soulless voices.
- Spam Toaster TV — A fictional line of cursed home appliances unveiled by Mohini. These imaginary devices “streamed” hallucinated television broadcasts that viewers were invited to believe, ignore, or worship.
- Spam Doggo Spam Dog Competition Show — Created by The Perfesser, this one-time broadcast celebrated absurd, AI-generated canine contestants in a Spam-themed pageant, complete with glamor shots, commentary, and 8-bit music soundtracking.
Other segments included vaporwave-style music videos, glitch-infused public service announcements, art-history parodies, and lore-building commercials for imaginary spam-based products.
Format and Delivery
SpamTV was designed as both a distributed and decentralized “network.” There was no single source or channel. Instead, artists released work through shared wallets, artist profiles, and platform accounts simultaneously. Each episode, segment, or fake commercial functioned both as a standalone art piece and a part of the larger SpamTV canon.
SpamTV’s disjointed nature — with timelines overlapping, contradictory internal narratives, and chaotic metadata — was a feature, not a bug. Viewers were not meant to watch in order, or even watch everything. The experience was immersive, interruptive, and intentionally overwhelming.
Themes and Aesthetic
SpamTV doubled down on core themes of SpamArt: - **Media overload and glitch overload** — embracing visual corruption as critique and celebration - **Nostalgia inversion** — parodying retro television formats while filling them with AI uncanny valley horrors - **Anti-institutional satire** — ridiculing mainstream NFT shows, art fairs, and influencer culture - **Decommodified content** — mocking the monetization of every idea in web3 by minting “junk” as fine art
It positioned SpamTV as both entertainment and resistance — a pink-noised riot against algorithmic homogenization.
Reception
While too experimental for some mainstream audiences, SpamTV gained cult popularity among digital artists and net art historians. Its mints frequently sold out, and its segments were shared widely across Twitter and Discord. Several academic and curatorial spaces took notice, citing it as a seminal case study in decentralized video art and collective narrative art practices in the AI era.
The Perfesser’s segment collection was later re-released as part of the "Spam Art Greatest Hits" compilation on Manifold, which helped elevate its status and attract new viewers to the original broadcasts.
Legacy
SpamTV continues to be referenced in new SpamArt releases and digital folklore. Its spirit lives on in glitch-broadcasts, collaborative spam memes, and any instance of weird web3 video that breaks the frame on purpose.
Although no centralized archive exists, portions of SpamTV have been preserved through mirrors, remixes, and commemorative mints. It remains a core project in the SpamArt canon, emblematic of the movement’s chaotic humor, collaborative ethos, and artistic audacity.