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Posted by Tomoe N on September 11, 2024 at 9:43am 0 Comments

I received a mail art from Aude in Paris.

パリからメールアート来ました。クロワッサン🥐のふくろ〜

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i received Mail Art from Daniel Westerlund

Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 1:10pm 0 Comments

this card from Ebb Yowza makes me wonder if the twenty-first century might see the beginning of  the end of nations... maybe borders cause more trouble than they're worth? just like it's important to think not just of now but of generations to come, it's important to think beyond here, to the folks who live on the other side of the tracks. perhaps it's time…

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i received Mail Art from SueAn Stradling-Collins

Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 1:03pm 0 Comments

Man Ray, Ray Johnson, and Heironymous Bosch walk into a bar...

(this postcard documents the moment) ];-)

thanks SueAn; see you in the mail soon!

i received Mail Art from Fabienne Ruaut-Lichet

Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 12:58pm 0 Comments

another lovely print from my (brain) cell-mate in Dreux; this is a detail from her signature handcrafted oversize b+w envelope.

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Posted by Mikel Untzilla on September 10, 2024 at 8:05am 0 Comments

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Posted by Mikel Untzilla on September 10, 2024 at 8:00am 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. 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 on Saturday.

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

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Mail Artists Addresses? 585 Replies

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

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

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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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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Jun 28.

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