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Mini-Album released today

Posted by Chris Marino on November 2, 2026 at 8:44pm 0 Comments

Hi,

Please let me know if this type of promoting is not allowed.

This week has been undeniably eventful and exciting.   I am still gleaming from my Halloween wedding on Saturday.  Today, I've officially released my mini-album to the world, something I have been working on for many months and my first new music in two years.

For anyone interested in harsh noise / power electronics / industrial music, I will leave a link to the bandcamp page here. …

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I received Mail Art from Kiki

Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on November 2, 2026 at 7:59pm 0 Comments

Some Mail Art has arrived from Kiki in Osaka, Japan.









Inside the envelope were two miniature cards. On the first, the artist had included a portrait of the Nobel laureate, the Serbian writer I. Andrić. The second card features… Continue

I received Mail Art from Richard Baudet

Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on November 2, 2026 at 6:22pm 0 Comments

Last spring, I received some Mail Art from Richard Baudet. He lives in Marseille. In this case, the envelope is empty, and the images are drawn on it. Merci!…



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i received Mail Art from MomKat

Posted by Zack on November 2, 2026 at 5:59pm 0 Comments

this Halloween-hued card came in some time ago, along with The Sticker Dude's re-issue of Carlo Pittore's comments on 'the eternal ring'. thanks Katerina and take good care of yourself; see you in the mail soon!

i received Mail Art from David Stanley Aponte

Posted by Zack on November 2, 2026 at 5:53pm 0 Comments

Sub #7705

the other side features an apt Paul Robeson quotation concerning resistance, and these terrific stamps designed by Chris Ware -

always a pleasure to encounter Subreal…

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i received Mail Art from DSBailey

Posted by Zack on November 2, 2026 at 5:45pm 0 Comments

wow all this superposition, so many textures!

i feel like i've seen these creepy spectators in my dreams... just in time for Halloween.

thanks DSB

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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.  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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"Objects of Interest" Art Distribution Box::: Call for Contributions 8 Replies

Hello IUOMA compatriots! I am launching a community facing art project here in Albuquerque, NM USA and I'm asking for your…Continue

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After Ray Johnson: Add (to) and Return To Mail Art Call 28 Replies

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Good Art Pens? 90 Replies

What are your favorite pens to use in mail art?  I have a few good (sort of) ones for my regular-size collage work -- for applying lines, not for actually writing -- but they aren't turning out to be great for mail-art scale.  New ones for writing,…Continue

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[offer] hidicards -- simple collage postcards (no exchange expected) 16 Replies

hello mail artists,during full-time caregiving seasons, i've made postcard-sized collages in spare moments. they are very simple, sometimes oddly composed--but they exist.all are made from found materials, and most include images of women.rather…Continue

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Started by Margaret Jeddry in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kit Gonzales Moore Oct 23.

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