Lost Mail-Artists - Looking for....

[Ruud Janssen]

Sometimes we have been in contact with a mail-artist and have lost their address or the contact completely. Others might know what happened. Did he/she move. Did he/she stop with mail-art completely?

[Ruud Janssen]

In the 80-ies and 90-ies I had a very good mail-contact with James Hill with his TCAB-Studio in San Francisco, USA. We echanged also audiocassettes. Suddenly the contact was gone and I never heard what happened. The contact was lost. Does anybody know him too and can he/she tell me what happened?

[Ruud Janssen]

In the 80-ies I was in contact a lot with Charles Francois from Liege, Belgium. He used a modem and an Apple computer in the early years of communicating with e-mail. He had RATOS, I had the TBHS (Tam Bulletin Host System), and we were pioneers in these new fields where mail-art and electronic networks joined. Also together with Chuck Welch (CrackerJack Kid) and Mark Bloch both in the USA. On the Internet I can hardly find things from him. His old website from the University of Liege has gone.... Does anybody know where he is or what happened? He was also a pioneer in the electronic communication-world and now seems lost or far away.

The photo is from my archives (dates 15 years back I think).

[Ruud Janssen]

It is not so sad. People come and go in the mail-art network. That is completely o.k. For soms mail-art is just a short time of their life. For some it becomes their life. It is a choice one makes.

About starting a project. Isn't this group something like that?

Dawn Helene Stechschulte said:

oh rudd this sounds so sad.
i think you should do an art project about all the people you've collaborated with that have vanished. unfortunately i don't have any lost comrades to add to the list, though i'm sure in time i will.

[Denis Charmot]

Does someone have some news about manekineko from Spokane, WA USA, which had the site mailart.org.

[Ti Ar Raden]

Does anyone have an e-mail address for Danielle Roy in FR-Marcoussis? I am late in updating my blog and I would like to thank her for the two beautiful MailArts that I have received from her yesterday and today. I cannot check in the directory that was published here recently because I cannot find it any longer.