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Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 7, 2012 at 7:11pm

history of IUOMA: go to www.iuoma.org and click on the IUOMA logo to go to that specific section.....

Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 7, 2012 at 7:10pm

International Union of Mail-Artist Overview 1988-2008           

By Ruud Janssen

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                In the year 2008 the International Union of Mail-Artists (IUOMA) was 20 years old. This book contains texts by Ruud Janssen, John Held Jr., Wilma Duguay, Tulio Restrepo, Vittore Baroni and Geert de Decker. As illustrations lots of images are used created by IUOMA-members over the years to support the union idea.                                           

Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 7, 2012 at 7:09pm

Thesis Michael Lumb           

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                MICHAEL LUMB. MAILART 1955 TO 1995: DEMOCRATIC ART AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE. ABSTRACT. This thesis, written by Michael Lumb in 1997, evaluates the importance of mailart in the late 1990s, traces its development and examines the reasons for the changes that have taken place in the nature of mailart practice. Includes also an interview by Ruud Janssen (NL) with Michael Lumb (UK).                                           

Comment by Poison Label Productions on March 7, 2012 at 5:13pm

why have i been a mentor and not a member of this group?
anyway... 

Comment by Marcela Peral on February 7, 2012 at 10:20pm

Hi Ruud!

I´m writing my tesis on collaborative work and networks... i´m including this site in it, so i´d like to know something about the origins of IUOMA and how it comes to this platform, I found a bit info on New members group... Is there another link to read more?

Comment by Ruud Janssen on February 3, 2012 at 6:04pm

I had to move to a bigger place years ago to inlude an archive as part of my house...

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 16, 2011 at 5:35pm

you begin with nothing, and after a few years you end up with an archive....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 7, 2011 at 2:09pm

Amazing, Ruud, truly amazing!

My son told me recently that if you'd invested €1000 in one of Fortis Bank's investment accounts in 2000 it's only worth €350 today, BUT if you'd bought €1000 of Duvel beer, kept the bottles and took them back today and collected the statiegeld (?) you'd now get almost €400.

Which leads me to wonder, how much you've spent on posting 100,000 + items over the last 30-odd years, and if you'd invested that money in something (other than Fortis and/or Duvel) how much it would be worth today? A lot, I would think.

Approximately -- well, to the nearest 10,000! -- how many of the 90,000 pieces that you have received have you kept, and what do you do with them (if anything) in terms of storage, cataloging, etc?

All of a sudden the implications of a long-term future in Mail Art are overwhelming.

A last point which it would be impossible to quantify, but I raise it anyway: how many pieces of Mail Art, in total, from all over the world, have you been responsible for since you started all of this up in the 80's? Millions? Tens of millions, Hundreds of millions? The UPU should give you a medal. Or two. or three. Or..

Thanks and regards, Val

 

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:52am

Reseeing the chart, I guess the amounts I mentioned are even higher. I just sent out that much it just guessing.....

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 6:51am

From 1991 till 1998 I even tried to count all outgoing mail-art. It was my busiest period. You can see how many pieces went out every month and they are counted each month as a total.

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