A new book for 2020 is sceduled by John Held Jr. (USA). Book Title: Archiving Advanced Art, ISBN #: 978-1-79482-552-9. Published by TAM-Publications. You can order your copy at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/iuoma
Outgoing to Ryosuke Cohen (Japan) – Dec 2018
Mail to Ryosuke Cohen – Japan – October 2018
Letter written and sent to Ryosuke Cohen. He has been making this many Brain Cells that in return I always send him some handmade works so he knows I appreciate his work. This time a larger envelope went to him. Below you can see the cover on which the address was hand painted: In a few week I will see what he did use or did not use. Just wanted.. Read More
Frontiers – 1986
Statement written in 1986 by Ruud Janssen The Mail-Art network always is looking for new ways to communicate in a creative way. From sender to received in whatever medium there is. The Internet and Facebook haven’t changed that.
Outgoing Mail-Art on 4-5-2018
Some outgoing envelopes on May 4th 2018. Some old names get snail-mail again after they have been active online that much….
FAKE-Ism
FAKE-Ism ; The ISM to fake an artform. When you want to belong into a specific group by faking the techniques and motives that belong to that specific ISM. Applied this to mail-art for a few years but never published gthe documents I made in 1998 and 1999.
Golden card from Richard Canard (USA)
To make the right photo, I had to hold this card by Richard Carard (USA) in the sun to let it shine like it should…. Thank you Richard for sharing these thoughts again.
Outgoing Mail-Art September 2017
Some samples of mail-Art that went out in September 2017:
Traditional Mail Art Catalogs – They still exist!
In 2017 I got these catalogs of Mail-Art project in the mail. Above a project done by the Stickerdude (Joel Cohen) in NY – USA, and below two catalogs that Uli Grohmann (Germany) did. Although a lot goes digital thee days, the hardcopies are still my favorites. You can go through the pages, and digitize them, but the booklet will survive the times for sure whuile the digital images go.. Read More
Incoming Mail-Art june 2017
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