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welcome to the International Union of Mail-Artists. This Blog gives you information and links to all activities undertaken by Ruud Janssen, who started with Mail-Art in 1980 and is still active.

Silent for some months

in Art, Ruud Janssen, Uncategorized

What happens too in the digital world. The database of the blog went corrupt and the website didn’t work anymore. Got it fixed, and will start when time allows it. Anyhow, all old data is available again.

Off cours lots of new work was produced, things were sent out, and on Facebook all activities just continued. Somehow I even din’t notive the website was offline, and no one reacted to me to tell that. Is that the current status of Internet. Is it just one big “blop” of data and doesn’t anybody miss a website when it is offline. Seems so.

Mail to Ryosuke Cohen – Japan – October 2018

in Art, Breda, Fluxus Word Score, IUOMA, Mail-Art, Nederland, Netherlands, Outgoing Mail-Art, Ruud Janssen, Ryosuke Cohen, TAM Rubberstamp Archive

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 him to get a nice surprise too. The content has also some handpainted fluxus words in it, so he can read them when he gets the piece

Add and Pass for the MoMa – What is new?

in Add and Pass on, Art, Breda, Digital Art, Digital World, Incoming Mail-Art, Nederland, Netherlands, Outgoing Mail-Art, Ray Johnson, Ruud Janssen, Visual Poetry

Added a hardcopy Bitcoin to this paper and also some traditional values. Symbolic for the new ways for mail-art that old and new are now integrating and we don’t know which way things are heading. Will be funny to find out where this paper will travel too…… And what kind of traces are on it. I left a few of mine and now digitized it. The network will tell if it is still alive and kicking (or not).