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Shiota Chiharu exhibition

Posted by Tomoe N on September 15, 2024 at 3:09am 1 Comment

I went to the Shiota Chiharu exhibition with iuoma friend Kiki.

it was very inspiring!

Here are some of her works …

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what happened with all these member ?

Posted by Juan Petry on September 14, 2024 at 10:50am 4 Comments

whats going on? is there a shift in using this platform?

Postcard o the Day COLLABART

Posted by Coco Muchmore on September 14, 2024 at 12:30am 0 Comments

Incoming from Michael Orr

Posted by Lorre Smith on September 13, 2024 at 9:57pm 0 Comments

This lovely packet of printed items is a delight!

Received from Lars Schumacher - Germany #BooKOfDeaD

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 12, 2024 at 4:51pm 5 Comments

077 - lars schumacher - hannover germany

This is the 5 work come from Lars...

And i love it all..

Thanks for thsi work..

Love the postcard...…

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Received from Sofia Rodriguez - Austria/Mexico #BooKOfDeaD

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 12, 2024 at 4:49pm 0 Comments

076 - Sofia Rodriguez -Gotzeus - Austria

Sofia send me a colofull R..

Love the colors..

I see a person in it...

Thanks..…

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Received from Simon Warren - UK #BooKOfDeaD

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 12, 2024 at 4:46pm 0 Comments

075 - Simon Warren - Tring - UK



Simom is probably the person who has contributed the most to my project..

this time we send to me...

"THE GRIP OF PARALYSIS"

Thanks Simom for this grate work..…

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Received from Tictac Patrizia - Germany #Tic-Tac

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 12, 2024 at 4:40pm 2 Comments

I don't have words to describe it...

It's so nice..

That i don't say anything, show only the final result...

Thanks Patrizia...…

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Received from Christian Alle - France #NadaZero

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 12, 2024 at 4:33pm 0 Comments

Allways a amazing Zine..

This is Nada-Zero n153...
Thanks Christian for the work...

Love all the contributions and the call that you share..

Incoming:Rosselli Lorenzo, Kathy Barnett, Zack, and Jean Jackson

Posted by William M on September 12, 2024 at 3:47pm 0 Comments

Not often I get mail from Switzerland. Thanks Rosselli!



Another winner from Kathy. I suspect this is Patsy Stone and there's something a bit stronger than coffee or tea in that cup.…



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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. The Main address of the Union is at the TAM-address, P.O.Box 1055, 4801 BB - Breda - Netherlands. 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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Started by Thomas Vandenberghe in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.

Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 52 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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Me and my partner Lilli made a mail art project together with 80 artists and storytellers from over 20 European countries through analogue dialogical letter-making. These letters are now becoming a book that we are crowdfunding. If the project seems…Continue

Started by Marco Verhoogt in Mail-Art Magazines and Publications. Last reply by Predrag Petrovic Sep 3.

MAIL ART & ART PEDAGOGICS. 8 Replies

Dear Mail Art Family,does anyone of you out there know of any projects or literature dealing with the connection of MAIL ART and ART PEDAGOGICS ? Maybe there are pedagogues who read these lines... and maybe someone of you already brought MAIL ART…Continue

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I think, it would be very imteresting to have a mailing list of all of us.

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SPAZIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART GALLERYRetrospettiva di Reid Wood 1970-2024“Tempo sospeso / Segni  e tracce di un immaginario in/Visibile” "Suspended time/ Signs and traces of a imaginary in/visible"a cura di Sandro Bongiani11 agosto - 14 settembre…Continue

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UPDATE #2:Deadline is over and I appreciate all the great work that I received in the past two months! I will send messages over the IUOMA site in the next days to notify all artists whose works arrived safely in Berlin.As for the exhibition: I am…Continue

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