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6 envelopes more for the “Journey‘s“ Mail Artists

Posted by Palettentheater Kollektiv on July 16, 2025 at 9:00am 0 Comments

Taking our time getting ready to send one by one…

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Posted by jon foster on July 15, 2025 at 9:07pm 0 Comments

Received from Honoria Starbuck (Texas, USA)

Posted by awyn on July 15, 2025 at 7:22pm 0 Comments

Thank you, Honoria!  

Incoming....

Posted by Garrett Bliss on July 15, 2025 at 11:36am 0 Comments

Thank you Denice Newton for the wonderful card and welcome to IUOMA. I will put something in the mail to you soon. I have fallen behind on production recently. 

Thanks Blaine

Posted by Adam Herst on July 15, 2025 at 1:20am 0 Comments

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Somehow people always think that if a group of artists work together that then there must automatically be some kind of organisation that coordinates it all. Well, in mail art there are many groups working together. These groups themselves also work together, but there is NO organisation that arranges all the things that go on in the mail art network. The I.U.O.M.A. is the Union that mail artists can become a member of. The Union has no rules. Everybody who is active in mail art and hears about the Union can become a member just by saying so.

In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. I invented this name and made forms for people to become a member of this (fictive) union. About 300 mail artists reacted in a year, and official membership cards were made, even a official Union Magazine was published. Anybody who was a member of the Union could also claim a special function within the Union.

Even today, people still join the Union. And somehow it gives power, to say that YOU are a member of the International Union too.  It is just the center for archiving all the things that are going on. But I am not in control of the Union. I just invented it. And to make it official, I made myself General-President of this Union. Sure was impressive when I travelled to the USSR in 1991 and went to visit some friends there who were also members of this Union........

Today online on Ning there are thousands of members. On December 2nd 2018 the 5000th member joined in.

 

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Sensations of Tone by Hermann von Helmholtz

Has anyone read The Sensations of Tone by Hermann von Helmholtz??  I got a copy of the Dover edition for my birthday;  I haven't read it yet, but I am thinking about making some art about it.Continue

Started by Asterion in Other Jun 27.

Brain Cell - Ryosuke Cohen 208 Replies

What are your thoughts about this project? Would be interesting to know what you think. Do you participate. Since when, How much times. Do you know the concept? Will also try to publish a few samples here (or others can help me with that)

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Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 53 Replies

Many of us keep blogs and have twitter accounts, and I know that many of us post up our best work there. Personally I love seeing people's work on their blogs, and I follow the latest work of many mailartists on Twitter too, where the banter is…Continue

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