A small new project is started. I wrote the text below and sent it to several online groups. The start of this only took 20 minutes, including the spreading of the news. Is this how fast a mail-art project can be started these days? Here is the text I sent out to the groups:
RETURN MY ENVELOPES IN DIGITAL FORM.
Since 1980 I have been sending out mail-art. In 2005 it will be the 25 year anniversary, and for that I need some help from the mail-artnetwork. In the years 1997 till 1999 I did a project in which Iasked people to return my envelope in a digital form. I have published the results in on a number of pages on my site at www.iuoma.org .
Now I need your help again. I am extending the rangeof the envelopes I would like to get returned in a digital form. Theolder, the better. If you have an old envelope I sent you and you have the possibilities to digitize it (in these modern times that can be a scanner, a digital camera, etc.), I would welcome a digital image of it. Please keep the resolution of the image reasonable(about 200 Kbytes for a JPEG image would do). If you would like to send a lot, try sending in a CD-R with the digitized images.
The images are welcome at: r.janssen@iuoma.org . I know that it is a strange project since only people who received something from me canparticipate. But it is a typical project for our times: we enter the digital world more and more, but the real mail-artists treasure the old-fashioned envelopes. So do I, and I want to document all I sent out (and haven't documented yet) in a digital way. Especially works from years ago is very interesting for me since I am documented all I send out the last years in digital form already.
Ruud Janssen –P.O. Box 10388 – 5000 JJ Tilburg – Netherlands.
Deadline for sending in files: December 31st 2004.
So, this is the text that got out. I am currious to see what and if I get reactions. Normally mail-artists want to send in their own works to get this publisged. This project is the other way round. I want to have digital images of my old work, so I can use it in my documentation of the 25 years I was active.
Ruud
1 comment:
I know this must sound like deja vu but what about a swap? Would you be interested in sending scans of my envelopes (presuming you still have any?) in exchange for the ones i have of yours?
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