Ruud Janssen

Male

Breda

Netherlands

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
1980
My Website (without http://):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ruud-Janssen/126853977330127
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
I like communication, art, paper, painting and concepts. The ideal combination for doing Mail-Art. Worked with rubberstamps as a child and started sending out letters as soon as I could write. Discovered that it was called mail-art in 1980. Have been discovering ever since and in the last years also promoting this free cultural exchange.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
TAM-Publications
BREDA - N E T H E R L A N D S
e-mail: iuomanetwork@gmail.com
url: http://bouncesite.com/iuoma

NB. The P.O. Box that was used is closed after 31-12-2024 !

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  • Lancillotto Bellini


    Hello Ruud, thanks for your mailing... Pls follow the link to see your nice mail art...

    http://dododada.ning.com/group/recyclingartgroup/forum/topics/69124...

    Lancillotto
  • Judy Skolnick

    Thanks for the IUOMA stamps, Rudd. I love the envelope and will try to find another unique stamp for TAM. Best Wishes
  • Jennifer Kosharek

    Thank you! Got your mail art and will scan and post soon! Thank you!!!!
  • Medwolf

    wishing you and yours a great mail art christmas amigo

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    KALA XRISTOUYENNA, Ruud, to you and yours!

  • Clifford Duffy

    Best wishes and a joyous and strengthening new year to you and yours Rudd ~
  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Have a Happy Mail Art New Year 2010, Ruud!
    A prosperous year for IUOMA ahead!
    All the best,
    Katerina

  • Karin Winter

    bedankt Ruud voor het mijn welkoms comment. Nu moet ik even uitzoeken wat ik hier precies kan gaan doen :)
  • Sonia Rombaldi

    Obrigada pela recepção. abraços .....sonia.
  • Lyucinda

    Thank you for the confirmation. I am so glad and waiting for your free time!!!
  • Sonia Rombaldi

    Obrigada Rudd...já corrigi....faltou o C...meu teclado está com problemas...rsrsrs
  • Clifford Duffy

    Blessings Rudd!
  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Thank you, ruud, for the nice wishes.
    Something heARTful is in the mail for you!
    Katerina
  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Ruud, dear friend,
    come on by the CAFE...with all that snow
    in Washington D.C., we are still having a "party" :-)
  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    My mail box will be awaiting for that very colorful mail art of yours, Ruud! Can't wait!

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    My, my, Ruud,
    KLM is fast! Or is it the Olympic Air?
    Feb.17th and here it all is!
    Thank you so much...for soooo much!
    Now I will have some add&pass things to do.
    Also, you see, I still like the "stamp IUOMA" because
    it has the whole explanation as to what "IUOMA" means...
    that is so good for the postal clerks to see :-)

  • Manvendra Begerhotta

    Thank you very much!
  • Maura Di Giulio

    Thank you Ruud!
    I will tell you when I receive it.
    Have a nice day
    Maura
  • Ana Spinu

    http://romailart.wordpress.com/my-red-number/

    servus-salut-hello

    Mailart Matters, thank you Ruud

    ANA
  • Rachel Fasig

    Hi Ruud! First, thank you for creating the IUOMA site! I am having so much fun...finding all the members so supportive, creative, generous. This is proving to be a freeing place for me.

    Second, where can I find help with some basic technical questions, like how do I add photos of mailart I receive with my comments so that all members can view? Sorry, I am kind of slow to get with the blogging, etc. scene!

    Thanks so much! Rachel
  • Sean Woodward

    Hi Ruud - lots of archive updates now on planetdada.co.uk including this wonderful envelope, not sure who its from ;-)

  • Paulo Jorge Gonçalves

  • Rod Summers / VEC

    Ruud, I am in Iceland for most of June and most of the time I should be near a network, should I do a blog from the land of Ice and Fire?
  • liketelevisionsnow

    Hi Ruud-
    Thanks for your comment. It depends on the drawing. This one was about 20-30 minutes. I sped it up to match up with the sound track that I created.
  • Ptrzia (TICTAC)

    Wonderful, I like that envelope! Thank you Ruud!!
    cheers
  • CARLOS ZÜRCK CRUZ

    The Place where there is no specific theme. A real social group for you......

  • Lyudmila Dakhova

    10,000 March for Peace in NY 5/2/10
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA4gVarNNOE

    I thought of the 1982 Peace March and found these
    1,000,000 March for Peace in NY 6/12/82
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQjYLQHhVY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUFwuf0K2w&feature=related
  • C O S T I S

    Thank you Ruud.
    Costis
  • Thomai Kontou

    hi Ruud
    Thank you very much for your attendance, your work and your presence in the committee. Is a big help for me and exhibition.
    all the best, Thomai
  • ivana rezek

    Memorable Movie Moments
    What is your favorite quote from a movie? Share it with the rest of us
    and illustrate it :)
    If you can't decide on an actual quote, you can also share a particular
    scene or even make an 'alternative' poster for your favorite movie.
    You can also add a short explanation about why this particular
    quote/scene/movie is important to you.

    Deadline: JUNE 30
    Size and technique free, no fee, no jury, no returns.
    Works will be documented on the blog and exhibited in a venue in
    Sarajevo in July, during the Sarajevo Film Festival when the entire town
    lives for the movies.
    If you provide your e-mail address, we will e-mail you the photos from
    the exhibition.
    Mail-art is hardly known in Bosnia, so please contributel and help us
    make a big mail-art show :)

    Mail your works to:

    Nataša Stanišić
    Asima Ferhatovića 1
    71000 Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • LuAnn Palazzo

    Am I number 1001? Thanks for the warm welcome!
  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Nice items at the IUOMA shop, Ruud...I'll have to look in to how to order a few. And many thanks for the envelope full of goodies! It arrive today, and I like all the stickers, pics. You are lookin' good with John Held in NYC!
    I'll try to get that FLUXUS rubber stamp paper back to you soon. All my stamps and tools are in Thess, and not here at the seaside. Maybe next week I'll get some sent to you.

    Thanks again for all!
  • gmitides

    thanks nice to see you too
  • swinx

    …postman was here…
    THANKS a lot for your artwork. nice to be here.
    best wishes.
    swinx
  • Mirjam Blekkenhorst

    Thank you Ruud!

  • Sharon Silverman

    Hi Ruud... Just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work within the mailart community. I am hosting The Face of Jesus - An International MailArt Gallery Exhibition to be held in March of 2011. I am getting wonderful images in the mail and plan on posting a separate web page soon for this event. Can you help get the word out to other artists for me? I will create a MailArt website for this Show as soon as I receive 50 pieces of work, then I will continue to add other artists as they come in. Thank you and Best Wishes to You!
  • Ficus strangulensis

    Thanks, Ruud. I'm back after an email address change.
  • CrackerJack Kid

    HI Ruud,

    Seems like I had a page on IUOMA a year or two ago, but I lost the password and
    here I am again.....starting over. I wanted to ask you about your books which were
    published using Lulu. How did that work out for you....costwise and otherwise?

    I've been active with music these past few years. But I've also checked in with mail art
    at some events like Joel Cohen's big gathering at MOMA (2005) for the Dada Exhibition.
    That was a great time and good to meet old friends....some for the first time. I do miss the
    connections and now that my four kids are getting near college age...I may be more active.

    Where is Charles Francois? And have you talked with Guy Bleus in recent years. They are/were
    both dear friends. I do miss them a lot.

    Read a thread on IOUMA about Eternal Network and was a bit amused by some of the comments
    .....like the artist who liked the graphic cover design. Interestingly, the book is considered rare and I've seen copies going for $380.00 each. Then again, awhile back I saw five issues available through
    Amazon that were going for $50.00 each. Thought I should buy them, but you know.....I've already read the book. ;-)

    I read parts of an MIT Press edition about Net Art (At A Distance) and was a bit puzzled by the lack of information about how important Mail Art was to the development of Networking and the internet. Held wrote a chapter, but he falls far short of even giving a word to the NC92 year. That was a HUGE event in the expansion of networking ideals among mail artists. Hell, MIT Press wouldn't even look at Mail Art when I sent them a book proposal back in 1993. They still don't seem to get it.
    It all amazes me after so many years of history under the bridge.

    Say, I've always been amazed at your stamina, man! You have certainly stayed on course without
    the burnout. How do you do it and what has kept you truckin on?

    Cheers,

    Cracker
  • CrackerJack Kid

    The "friend" passage thang is kind of amusing, no? My 19 year old daughter tells me she has a Facebook friend who will be attending Rhode Island School of Design with her this Fall....and who brags about having over 2,000 friends. My GAWD! I remember in the 70s when mainstream artists/critics etc. doubted there could be an underground international movement of 5,000 Mail Artists. I recall Carlo Pittore saying there were probably over 10,000 Mail Artists and even I had some doubt about that.....But hey, 2,000 friends on Facebook! I wonder how many Mail Artists have archives with over 2,000 addresses?

    Cheers,

    Cracker
  • EFTICHIA PETALA

    hello dear RUUD DID reach threre my PRINT MAIL ART fluxus ilike your video your art too petala eytihia
  • EFTICHIA PETALA

    The truth is that I had sent some projects MANY TIMES IN VARIOUS holdings of mail-art was lost in the past
    assumed that thrilled not been the case
    Anyway this is happening
    to wish you well wherever passing have you a nice vacation
  • Lex

    it can also be a postcard. Oh no. let it burn. let it burn.
  • Karen Champlin

    Hi Ruud,
    Just letting you know that I mailed a piece to you yesterday.

    Peace.............Karen
  • Litsa Spathi / NOBODY

    Happy Birthday, Ruud!
  • Ann Tracy

    Thanks for the b-day wishes!
  • Heleen de Vaan

    Thank you, Ruud!
  • Frank Odette

    Thanks Ruud! Great to be here.
  • Celestino Neto

    Hi Ruud Jansen,

  • Valentine Mark Herman

    Bonjour Ruud! I'm trying to get into the Mail-Art Projects part of the web-site, but failing to do so. Is it just me (and my normal level of computer illiteracy) that is not having any success in accessing it, or is there something wrong with the link to it? Help, please! Thanks and regards, Val
  • andytgeezer

    Thanks Ruud - I'll try and get some pictures of my lecture and will add your stuff to the REAL display as usual