The first 35 mail-interviews are now published on this blog. It means that thet are available again. The goal is to have them all here, so the information is available.
Mail from my Father – 1949
My father, Herman Janssen, wrote this card in 1949. He was a soldier then, stationed in Indonesia, and sent this card back to his family.
I found the card after the sad duty to dismantel my own family house. My Father died in 1976. My mother died in 2013, and I found the card and kept it.
IUOMA PR materials
The IUOMA has many sides. When you are looking for PR materials and/or logo’s to use, than you should have a look at the blog that is made especially for that purpose:
http://iuomalogos.blogspot.nl/
On that blog you find all kind of samples. The IUOMA doesn’t use just one logo. The network of artists creates their own logo’s and shares them with eachother. Whenever a logo is designed, it is distributed through the network and archived on many places. Besides the blog there is also a group for this on the NING network:
Braincell #916 arrived from Japan
Ryosuke Cohen is doing the Braincell project since 1985. After 30 years he reached this number 916 already and every 10 days he produces a new one. On the IUOMA platform on Ning we trace all the issues and try to get a more complete view of the project. Have a look at:
http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/brain-cell-ryosuke-cohen-compilation
Because a large part of the network follows the group we know instantly when a new BrainCell has come out and who particpated on it.
Academia Sources
To make information available, there is a very good website to publish papers, books, etc. I have used it now to make all kind of informatio available for researchers. That way I don’t have to maintain a big website with all sources, but also can guide you to:
Explaining the concept of this blog
This new blog actually should be the central point of all my digital activities. So links to all blogs and websites that I already have and are still alive. beside that also blog-postings to major places and activities that I am involved in. Only one goal and that is to make the information better accesible. The Internet turnes into a chaos without good structures, and I am just trying to make a structure that I can keep up with. The result might be for you that you can find things again and don’t get lost.
Mail-Art and Art
Mail-Art for me is a conceptual artform in which I feel at home. Besides that I gradually have created also lots of art (drawings, pantings, silkscreen prints, etc) which I sometimes also share within the Mail-Art network.
A portfolio of my work can be found at:
When Mail-Art and Art collide it comes in the form of e.g. acrylic painted envelopes which I actually send out thoughtout the world. They have landed in quite some collections and are sometimes exhibited too.
The OLD IUOMA website
When you wonder where the old IUOMA website went, it is still online. The link to that place is the same:
http://www.iuoma.org/index.html
and I even placed a link to that website in this blog. I will place more links to oplaces that are interesting for you, so from this BLOG you will eventually find a lot of things that I placed online.
Update of the new BLOG – June 13th 2015
The Menu structure has now been created. More texts from the old website will follow soon. Already 3 complete mail-interviews are online now, and the complete other set will follow too. The search button works, so you can look things up. Also I will document a selection of outgoing mail-art and incoming mail-art on this blog.
The main link to the IUOMA network at NING is also there. That is a lively place with over 1.000.000 pageviews a year. I started that 7 years ago and it has grown ever since with soon 4000 registered IUOMA-members.
Mail to De Villo Sloan – USA
After making some special foam stamps with names like IUOMA, Traspo, DkultN, Fluxus and MOMA, I made these stamped envelopes and sent them out into the network
