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New IUOMA membership Cards 2016-2017
Soon the new cards will be ready and will be sent out. The order went out just now. This blogposting is the only posting about the cards I will be doing, so eventually we will see what the sending out of the cards will bring.
There is a long history about the membership cards for IUOMA. It started back in 1988 and not every year a card was produced. Also designs from others were used sometimes, and in a special group:
http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/iuomamembershipcards
I even try others to make designs too, but not always succesfull. Anyhow….. A new card is in the making, and the cards are for 2016-2017 and will soon hit the network. Some will collect the cards for sure, and these will become historical time marks for the future of the IUOMA. Too much is going on digitally, but what will last is the hardcopies and lots of digital information scattered in the cloud.
By the way; it will be funny when someone reacts for the first time about the English and Dutch variation of the word Ship and Schip.
Multimedia in progress
In 2 months I will be doing two workshops for teachers that work at a college. I will sow them the ways to use a 3D pen and also let them think on how to use it with their students. For the occasion I will have access to lots of 3D pens, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.
For my art I am testing a few things. This afternoon I made some letters with the 3D pen that have become objects. I placed them on a scanner to make an color-copy of the letters. On that result I put again the original letters and took a digital photo of that on my working table. Next step is to put that image on some places online, like Facebook, IUOMA Network and some ‘pataphiscal platforms, and now also on this www.iuoma.org website.
So from idea to plastic to a color-copy into a digital photo and now going into that digital worlds. Multimedia for sure.
At the workshops I will probably let the teachers first make a letter of their choice to let them test the 3D pens and to see if they get the idea.
New machinery from the previous century
After getting lots of fountain pens which whom I write daily, I recently got some typewriters for the collection I will work in for the production of my art. The last one was built in the 60-ies and comes from Eastern Germany. The first tests are good. I have to do some cleaning and after n ew inkroles arrive first letters will be typed. It is a typical performance to use these machines in the time of computers.
6th generation of Mail-Artists
The Boring Group on Facebook
For some time now I am exploring the world of Facebook.Have a working profile there, a public profile, a College profile, and lots of groups to reach people online.
One group has a special purpose. People sometimes are bored, and then look for a specific group to pay attention for. The Boring Group is successful. Just have a look at the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/borrrring/
And when you want to see my public profile on Facebook, just go to:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ruud-Janssen/126853977330127?ref=hl
And like me if you like. You will then get messages through facebook whenever there is news.
TAM was HERE project by Ruud Janssen
This project was done in the 80-ies. I documented it on: http://tamwashere.blogspot.nl/ so you can have a good overview of the project. It was a typical Add & return project, where the result was exhibited in the Milkyway (Melkweg) Gallery in Amsterdam in 1985. Also I brought the collection to Ponte Nossa in Northern Italy, where I met Emilio Morandi and his family and exhibited the collection in his gallery.
As the Internet and computers came, I digitized the collection too and made the blog. Also on facebook I made a page of the project so it is now accessible to the world too. Have a look at: https://www.facebook.com/tamwashere
The Gallery had their own magazine in which the exhibition was announced (see above), and invitations were sent out (zee below)
Some contributions are historic, like the one of Joki (above). One of the themes was energy and the running out of it. The move to Nuclear Energy and the effect of all of what humans are doing.
In Ponta Nossa (Italy) I also did a performance (above) which is documented too.
And also political statements since the Eastern-Germany was active in the mail-art network quite a bit. mail from DDR was a treasure in those days.
The award of incompleteness – Sweden – 2014
In 2014 I received this wonderful prize from Sweden. See for all the details their website:
http://www.theshapethatchangedtheworld.com/
Ruud Janssen is a fluxus artist engaged in mail art. He is the founder of IUOMA (International Union of Mail-Artists), and he also led the way for art on the internet. His outbursts of creativity colored the whole digital revolution
Mail-Art statements 2013 – by Ruud Janssen
Some new statements in 2013 where published as a .PDF file too. New ideas
Writing letters with a 3D Pen – Ruud Janssen
Experimenting with the 3D pen resulted in an interesting collection of objects. I also like to call it ‘writing letters’ because the objects are letters or even envelopes. To document the findings I also wrote two articles that are formally published. have a look at them to read:
https://www.academia.edu/10113497/The_influence_of_the_3D_pen_in_the_Art_World_-_Part_1
https://www.academia.edu/10113532/The_influence_of_the_3D_pen_in_the_art_World_-_Part_2
These are .PDF files, so you can print or save them if you like.
