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Some Mail-Artists have been doing Mail-Art for a longer time and have saved all they get in, documented what they sent out, collected books, magazines and documentations, and before they knew it were the owner of a Mail Art Archive. Tell us more...

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Started by Mick Boyle. Last reply by Francis Lammé Apr 15, 2021.

Do you have a mail-art archive?

If you have a mail-art archive.please tell a bit about what is in it, how you store it, from which dates the materials are, and if possible show a photo.Continue

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Started by Ruud Janssen Feb 4, 2017.

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Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 2, 2010 at 6:44am


A rare view into the condensed TAM-Archive.
Comment by Samuel Montalvetti on November 25, 2010 at 12:17am
Fotos que saque en la ciudad de La Plata, en la presentacion del libro de Graciela Gutierrez Marx, espero les gusten
Salud!!

Comment by Samuel Montalvetti on November 20, 2010 at 3:16pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on October 25, 2010 at 6:12pm


Every address list a valuable addition to the archives.....
Comment by ginny lloyd on September 28, 2010 at 12:52am


A show of my 80s art and selections from my archive.
Comment by Ruud Janssen on August 25, 2010 at 6:57am
New addition to the TAM-Archive: The complete files of all published in this IUOMA Ning-platform. All the files that are published on this platform are archived on a first 1 TByte Harddisk. So your files are all backuped for many years to come. I use the Ning Archiver Tool which also documents the structure. his makes the information accessible for the future as well. Just for your information. - Ruud Janssen
Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 23, 2010 at 8:09am
Dear De Villo Sloan, How people organize is very complex. I have a lot of collections in boxes, saved away from moist, light, etc. So it is preserved quite well. Collections like the Mail-Art Interview (which I would like to exhibit one day), The tenthousands of sheets from the TAM Rubberstamp Archive, etc.

The rubberstamps however are very accesible. To use them and also to keep the rubber alive and workable.

Then there is the digital archive. Most forget that. I have several harddisk to save all the data on it. Also the LuLu bookshop is in a way a digital archive of some major publications.\

Just a first reaction. How to organize things is a constantb question the mail-artists that are at it for a long time are asking themselves. I have seen some lovely collections. Rare occasions when you are able to see the collection ' live' I know for instance how John Held Jr.'s archive looked like inn the 90-ies. A storage room he rented for all the boxes. Costed him lots of money just to save the collection. Now parts are in major archives and museums.....

Ruud
Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 23, 2010 at 2:43am
Thank you for this group, Ruud. And hello. Okay, I have a "collection" going back to the 1980s. It's a disaster. Just thrown in boxes. Especially since IUOMA, I want to go back and look people up. How do people organize? By artist, by era, by zine? And some stuff is showing the ravages of time. How do you preserve it?
Comment by Samuel Montalvetti on June 16, 2010 at 8:56pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 30, 2010 at 6:42pm
As you can see a special portfolio for Cavellini....
 

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