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Comment by Mail Art News on April 28, 2023 at 5:06pm
Comment by Kiki on April 28, 2023 at 9:09am

Sorry, the photos are all upside-down... :-/

Comment by Kiki on April 28, 2023 at 9:07am

Yes! 

Here are the collage cards that Predrag and I made together as well as a couple of photos I took in Serbia :

 

Comment by Mail Art News on April 28, 2023 at 4:25am

Welcome Kiki. What?? From Osaka, Japan to Serbia? That's an amazing adventure.  I will include a comment about it on the next blog post. Any photos to document this adventure?

Comment by Kiki on April 28, 2023 at 4:06am

Hello!

I travelled to Serbia, Europe, for two weeks in April 2023 and I met a fellow mail artist, Predrag, who is also on IUOMA, in person. We made collage cards and drawings together. Such a fabulous time!! I hope to visit Serbia again :-)

If any of you visits Osaka City, Japan, hopefully on the weekends, I would be happy to meet you in person :-)

Comment by Mail Art News on April 28, 2023 at 1:27am

Welcome Janys. We are 9 members strong. 

If anyone has any fun mail art stories they would want to share on the blog, let me know. Did you attend a mail art meet-up? Did you ever travel hundreds of miles to meet a mail art friend? This is all volunteer and not for pay since I do not make money from the blog and am not planning to. No google ads. 

I want to promote mail art and mail artists. Feedback has been good so far from readers. 

Comment by Mail Art News on April 27, 2023 at 11:57pm
Welcome Joey Patrickt. I follow him on Instagram and I have enjoyed seeing his collages.
Comment by Rebekka Schmidt on April 27, 2023 at 11:38pm

thank you for the kind welcome.

yes...and one could see by whom one is influenced - the mood one was into when he/she created the envelope..personal interests....etc  

today it is already possible to see through evaluation of ones internet-behaviour if the person is pregnant or in which state of menstrual cycle she is. I read in an article that pregnant people would be the most interesting target group for personalised advertisements at the moment.

Comment by Mail Art News on April 27, 2023 at 11:30pm

And welcome to the group Rebekka. 

Now that you mention it, I wonder if the AI programs of the future will be able to find useful information from mail art posted on IUOMA. They could see geographic location based on the addresses which is probably pretty easy for them, since the USPS already photographs every envelope it processes using high speed scanners.

They could maybe figure out if a person is making unapproved political statements. Watch your use of rubber stamps with words on them starting in 2025! :-) They could be figuring out a person's general interests based on the imagery of collages or drawings. 

Well yes an AI program to generate useful data about a person based on what kind of abstract art they make could be big business. 

Comment by Rebekka Schmidt on April 27, 2023 at 11:11pm
as we make a lot of our mail art visible online...  :)
In any case, thank you for addressing such interesting topics
 

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