In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. In November 2008 this NING platform for IUOMA became the home for members
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the collage is titled "Portals"... and it actually reminds me a bit of the videogame Portal, even if this maybe wasn't intentional? But who knows :)…
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Very, very nice surprise...
An enormous Xmas gift...
Yesterday I received the book with my participation in a mail art call...
love…
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PERASTIKA, Mim! Be well soon! Mim fell and fractured her leg,
and she is in the hospital not able to post, so here is the mail art that arrived in Virginia:…
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I am very pleased to be included in Brain Cell #1261. It feels like a great honor to be a part of Ryosuke Cohen’s long-running art project.
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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The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, or My Ignorance and Ignorance?!?I drew a drawing on cardboard with this pencil. When I laminated, the drawing disappeared. An empty cardboard remained. On the second postcard, I just wrote the address with this pen,…Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Eduardo Cardoso on Thursday.
In 2019, I wrote on the IUOMA portal:“If you want to get rid of excess postal art, you can donate your collection of postal art to the Museum of Moscow. With my participation in the Museum of Moscow, an archive of postal art for art historians and…Continue
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Leslie Levenson on Tuesday.
are there any volunteers for the research?a few days ago they didn't want to receive my envelope at the post office.The reason was the ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED.They say that any color can be used except red.Red is supposedly for controllers.If anyone…Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Dec 1.
Started by Amber Scribble in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry Nov 19.
Hey mail art friends, is it correct that if I want to send a mail art envelope with the envelope design and its address info oriented to portrait style vs landscape style, it costs extra postage?Continue
Started by Melanie Reed in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Nov 6.
if anyone happens to think that this is not visual poetry ~ we are not of the same mind.but we remain friends...😊❗Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Oct 31.
This book came to me, with the content written on stamps (Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia).Do you know (illustrated) (children) books about: mailpostpostmanstampsetc.?No matter what the language is.Thank you!…Continue
Started by Szabó Zelmira in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Szabó Zelmira Oct 21.
Greetings to Vladimir. An Eastern European Story of Censorship and Mail Art[Hommage à Franz Kafka]https://viragfold.net/post/796038304120324096/greetings-to-vladimirContinue
Started by Peter Abajkovics in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Szabó Zelmira Oct 20.
Press release BONGIANI ART MUSEUM COLLECTION Carla Bertola Retrospective Exhibition "Interferences and Interweavings…Continue
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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Oct 16.
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