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playing around with AI these days...

Posted by Juan Petry on October 11, 2024 at 7:19pm 0 Comments

playing around with AI:

"Mail art, also known as postal art or correspondence art, has indeed played a significant role as a tool for free expression and resistance against censorship across various political and social contexts. Emerging in the 1960s as a form of avant-garde artistic communication, it has provided artists and individuals with…

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Katerina

Posted by Janine Weiss on October 11, 2024 at 6:34pm 0 Comments

Musique, sun, montagnes 

Thanks alot my dear

unknown sender to my N°13 mail art project

Posted by John Gayer on October 11, 2024 at 10:30am 0 Comments

Here's a visual aid which I hope triggers some leads to this artist's identity.

1) Address side:

2) Address side with light transmitted through it…

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And then there was mail from Brasil ?!!!!!!

Posted by Valerie Degroodt on October 10, 2024 at 10:13pm 0 Comments

Thank you Patricio !

180 unique works of SOCIAL-DADA are published on ARTSURPRISE.EU

Posted by Juan Petry on October 10, 2024 at 9:23pm 0 Comments

A selection of works by artists from all over the world was published today in the international social art project ARTSURPRISE.EU. The lucky owner of one of these works has the opportunity to take an active part and…

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Incoming: Braincell 1223 and Dr. Zack

Posted by William M on October 10, 2024 at 6:59pm 4 Comments

Always nice to find one of these Braincells in the mailbox.



Received this card "what are you looking at?" from zack yesterday. A fine card maybe getting new meaning to sending a postcard naked in the mail. Of course…

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From Michelle Gendreau

Posted by Tomoe N on October 10, 2024 at 12:22pm 0 Comments

I received a mail art from Michelle in Canada 🇨🇦 Thank you
I have got a ATC kit and ATCs. Better make something with it.

カナダからメールアート来ました。ありがと
ATC アーチスト トレーディング カードが沢山入っていました♪作ってみようかな。。

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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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My First Mail Art

This week I received my first two pieces of mail art! One from M. L . in Oregon and one from Nick in New Mexico. I mailed off some today as well. I cannot wait to share these with my students!…Continue

Started by Rebecca Lancaster in Mail-Art Projects yesterday.

Send mail or not send? 7 Replies

Dear friends, this is not the first time I have learned that my American friends have not received my mail. This was not the case before.I live in Russia. Maybe the US Postal Service has slowed down? Can I send my collages to the US or is it better…Continue

Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Sep 18.

NYU Libraries Exhibition Explores Mail Art Movement and Mark Bloch’s Postal Art Network

NYU Libraries Downtown Collection presents   "Panmodern!" An Exhibition of the Mark Bloch/Postal Art Network Opening:…Continue

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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Sep 17.

Harris Walz stickers 6 Replies

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Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Sep 15.

Open call 1 Reply

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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

Tags: mailartists, twitter, blogs

Started by andytgeezer in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.

theLetterNetwork - book by 80 mail artists 1 Reply

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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Started by Mikula Lüllwitz in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CUTandTEAR Aug 27.

Mail Artists Addresses? 585 Replies

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

Started by Litsa Spathi / NOBODY in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Stephen Tomasko Aug 26.

Best place to post Mail Art Calls 5 Replies

Thank you for any thoughts or directions n placing mail art calls internationally 💖🌞🪬Continue

Tags: receivinh, msending, art, mail, Calls

Started by Perry Hoffman in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CtlAltDel Aug 9.

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