The backside of the catalog I mentioned in the previous entry. Most mail-artists I know participated in one of the parts in this project. A beautiful documentation indeed.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Room-Creation / Traum-Gebilde Catalog from Germany.
The backside of the catalog I mentioned in the previous entry. Most mail-artists I know participated in one of the parts in this project. A beautiful documentation indeed.
Jean-Luc Cavellec - France
mail from Jean-Luc Cavellec, France. He has his own blog at: http://mailartetcarnetsbavards.blogspot.com/ and http://mailart-fromtosend.blogspot.com
John M. Bennett - USA
mail from John M. Bennett (he has a new name???). He sent some more paperwork for my collection and off course another stampsheet....
Kazunori Murakami - Japan
Mail from Kazunori Murakami. He returned one of the new stampsheets that are cicullating the mail-art network.
Lancillotto Bellini - Italy.
Don't cry my dear - mail-art is still Alive. Work by Lancillotto - Italy.
Fabio Di Ojuara - Brasil
mail from Fabio Di Ojuara, Brasil. He started a project with the theme: "Now every Shit is Art.
John Puig - Barcelona - Spain.
John Puig made this digital collage of several portraits of mail-artists he founs in other publications. Funny to see the result. "Freaks of the Netmail #1" he calls this piece. I guess I was lucky and he didn't use any of my facial parts..... Looking foreward to cersion #2.
Hotel DaDa - Argentina.
Envelope fro Hotel DaDa in which they sent me several copies of the catalogue of the Artistamps Exhibition.
Jim Leftwich - USA
Mail from Jim Leftwich, USA. He sent a text about a the poems that Rea Nikonova has made. A very interesting text that will joing the archive. The envelope also contained some stampsheets that he received and completed. The esults you can fins on that other blog of the TAM Rubberstamp Archive.
Geof Huth - USA
Geof Huth wondered if he has used the right P.O. Box address. Yes, he did. The card arrived without problems.
The history of the DNC's
Finaly, after 20 years of fake postagestamps, Peter Kustermann can send an original postagestamp from Hungary.....
Peter Kustermann - Germany
Font cover of the card on which Peter Kustermann announces his new project.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
How long are you active in Mail-Art?
On the IUOMA-group I plavce a poll some weeks ago. The question that is asked there is:
This poll stays interesting. How many years are you active in mail-art?
less than 1 year
1-3 years
4-5 years
5-10 years
10-15 years
15-20 years
20-25 years
25-30 years
more than 30 years
I started this week
The results so far are quite interesting. 15 Mail-artists reacted so far. You can still enter your votes since the poll will close on December 20th 2006.
Ruud
This poll stays interesting. How many years are you active in mail-art?
less than 1 year
1-3 years
4-5 years
5-10 years
10-15 years
15-20 years
20-25 years
25-30 years
more than 30 years
I started this week
The results so far are quite interesting. 15 Mail-artists reacted so far. You can still enter your votes since the poll will close on December 20th 2006.
Ruud
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Ann Marie Mangini - USA
mail that got in today from Ann Marie Mangini (USA). Quite a large oval sized card with coloured paintwork on both sides.
Tamara Wyndham - USA
Tamara Wyndham, NY, USA sent me this envelope with in it her newest publication. A nice addition to the collection of the TAM-Archive. Tamara is also quite active on several online groups, and off course in New York....
John M. Bennett - USA
New stampsheets arrived from John M. Bennett. I will publish the rest on the rubberstamp Archive blog.....
Rene Wagemans - Netherlands
A very nice surprise from Renee Wagemans, Dordrecht, Netherlands. She sent a small package with a small objectbook in it. Wooden pages, and on every page she made a small work for me.
Zak Stevens - USA
The surprise package I received from Zak Stevens, USA some weehs ago. Just click on the image to see the details.....
BOOG - USA
Mail from Boog in USA again. He received on of the stampsheets I recently started to send out. His envelope is a collage of the wonderful artistamps he has made over the years.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
More walls
On the blog with the "TAM was HERE" project, located at: http://tamwashere.blogspot.com/ there are now lots more visuals for you. Photos of the exhibition in Italy, at ArteStudio from Emilio Morandi, and also new contributions:
contribution from Volker Haman (Folke Hawan) then living in West-Germany.
contribution from Volker Haman (Folke Hawan) then living in West-Germany.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
100 Mail-Art Blogs
The number of Mail-Art Blogs I encounter keeps on growing. The link list I have found sofar is 100 blogs large. What I discover is a new mail-art goal. People send mail-art to the owners of the blogs just to have the material published. This way every blog itself has become a mail-art project. Some Mail-Art blogs are started with a specific goal. Online galleries on specific subjects. For some it has to include the sending of snail-mail. Some also accept digital contributions. Because of the speed of electronic mail, the mail-art world is growing fast...
Ruud
Ruud
Old and New Mail-Artists
Mail-Art means something different to everybody that works in this field. Some have experienced the changes over the decades, were in contact with the first generation who started it all. Some have only discovered Mail-Art a few years ago and start to discover the many aspects of it.
The basic aspect is that people have the need to communicate and to create. The process of sender and receiver, the use of communicationforms. The 'old' generation always communicated with the snail-mail system, mayby integrated with the FAX and telephone. Computers only became available end of the last century, and the experimenting started. The 'new' generation grows up with computers and discover this almost anarchistic art-form called mail-art. The 'unwritten rules' that mail-art follows have been written down many times, but every newcomer can write his own rules. The essence is that he/she will become the center of the new created network of which he/she will be part.
When we talk about 'the Network' we sometimes forget that everybody means a different network. My network is limited by the people I know and the information I get. That is a different network compaired to the one my correspondents know.
That is probably the charme as well of the Mail-Art network. Through every contact you are able to discover a new aspect of the Network, and follow the path you find. Mail-Art is a discovery-path.
Ruud
The basic aspect is that people have the need to communicate and to create. The process of sender and receiver, the use of communicationforms. The 'old' generation always communicated with the snail-mail system, mayby integrated with the FAX and telephone. Computers only became available end of the last century, and the experimenting started. The 'new' generation grows up with computers and discover this almost anarchistic art-form called mail-art. The 'unwritten rules' that mail-art follows have been written down many times, but every newcomer can write his own rules. The essence is that he/she will become the center of the new created network of which he/she will be part.
When we talk about 'the Network' we sometimes forget that everybody means a different network. My network is limited by the people I know and the information I get. That is a different network compaired to the one my correspondents know.
That is probably the charme as well of the Mail-Art network. Through every contact you are able to discover a new aspect of the Network, and follow the path you find. Mail-Art is a discovery-path.
Ruud
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Mail-Interviews online
On the site created by Jas W. Felter: http://jas.faximum.com/library/lib_tam.htm you can find most interviews I did. The site was offline for a while, and therefore I also created a mirror-site of the mail-interviews at: http://mailinterviews.blogspot.com/ . In this last site I also included the coloured hard-copy covers of some of the booklets that were published.
Ruud
Ruud
Monday, October 23, 2006
Mail-art during one week in Germany
Isn't it funny. Only one week I was in Germany, and back in Breda I emptied the P.O. Box and found out that mail-art is still alive and kicking. When I find the time I will scann the mail and show you some of the things I got last week. Yes, qpdb sent his card to the right address, and so did many others.
Card for qpdb - USA
This word-play I made back in 2005 and sent it to qpdb in USA. He published it on his blog with a nice comment.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
In Germany
Yes, suddenly in Germany again. Actually the complete last week. Visiting with family and also off course in connection to Fluxus Heidelberg Center. In these Internet-cafes one can so easily check the e-mail and off course, place these online messages on a blog.
Friday, October 13, 2006
More Mail-Art BLOG's
The link-list is updated again on 13th October 2006. Already 90 online blogs connected to mail-art. I believe some artists even send out mail-art to the owners of these blogs just to get published. A nice surprise was to find & see the blog of Dan Waber. He not just published the mail-art he gets, he also makes an online archive for each person. If you know of a blog on mail-art that isn't on this list, please send me an e-mail at r dot janssen at iuoma dot org.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Mail-Art to Ruud Janssen from Mail-Art Florida - USA
Mail-Art from Mail-Art in Florida - USA. Acrylic painting on the card where you can really feel the structure....
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Saturday, October 07, 2006
A Dream
This is something I wanted to do for a log time. An animated film. There are almost 200 drawings made for this. Each frame put together in an .AVI format, and then the texts are added in the programm Movie Maker. It all works on a fast computer. The ending of this short film is ofcourse to support the Tomatoes.
Ruud
Friday, October 06, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Statistics
I know that not all like statistics. I actually do, maybe also because I am somewhat familiar with the mathematical sides of it.
This blog is measured since: 2 oktober 2004
Total number of pageviews till now: 19.967
Busiest day till now: 2 april 2005 with 134 pageviews
Pageviews today : 13
Pageviews yesterday: 23
So somewhere tomorrow I expext the 20.000th visitor here after about 2 years of blogging. How time goes by....
Ruud
This blog is measured since: 2 oktober 2004
Total number of pageviews till now: 19.967
Busiest day till now: 2 april 2005 with 134 pageviews
Pageviews today : 13
Pageviews yesterday: 23
So somewhere tomorrow I expext the 20.000th visitor here after about 2 years of blogging. How time goes by....
Ruud
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Géza Perneczky: Network Atlas
Just found online the two publications that Géza Perneczky (Koeln, Germany) wrote about the mail-artists he discovered in his longtime research. In the publications he gives a lot of information on who is who and which projects they have done over the years. Quite fascinating these publications, since they give a great insight about what has happenened in mail-art is the last 40+ years
www.c3.hu/~perneczky/mail.art/Atlas/Letter_S/LAtlas_1.pdf
www.c3.hu/~perneczky/mail.art/Atlas/Letter_S/LAtlas_2.pdf
They are PDF-files. So easy to save and to print.
Ruud
www.c3.hu/~perneczky/mail.art/Atlas/Letter_S/LAtlas_1.pdf
www.c3.hu/~perneczky/mail.art/Atlas/Letter_S/LAtlas_2.pdf
They are PDF-files. So easy to save and to print.
Ruud
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Hello off line
That happens too. When you have new images scanned, the software you need to place things online doesn't work. It makes me think of other details in this online blogging. We all use servers that mostly us this service to place things online. The databases row, and the space to keep things online does cost money. How will thsy start to ask us for money. First steps are the placing of advertisings on the free websites. Will Blogger do the same?
Another detail is the archiving of all those texts and images. Does everybody have their own 'back-up' of all these data? I wonder.
A saying that goes in the world of computers is that in another 100 years the new generations will discover that they doný know what happened in the past century. When the power is gone, all data gets lost.....
Ruud
Another detail is the archiving of all those texts and images. Does everybody have their own 'back-up' of all these data? I wonder.
A saying that goes in the world of computers is that in another 100 years the new generations will discover that they doný know what happened in the past century. When the power is gone, all data gets lost.....
Ruud
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Old mail from Joki - Germany
Contribution from Joki (Minden, Germany). He cut out a part of the wall and opended the windows. Adding his stamps, but most of all creating a surreal landscape that is awaiting us in the nucleair ages. As Joki did often: he integrated the postage stamp in the artwork and sent this contribution as a card. Wonderful work. Joki died years ago on a boat-accident. His work lives on. Just published this work on the new blog: http://tamwashere.blogspot.com
Saturday, September 30, 2006
803 postings
Since I have started this BLOG the number of postings is now 803. That includes this one. When I recently started another Blog I noticed that the ID number of the new site is extreme hign. Also at another blog I saw that Blogger itself has now over 31,000,000 identities on it's platform. So Blogging is booming buisiness.
When I look at the statistics I can only see that the number of visitors decreases. I remeber that Geert de Decker once predicted that in a few years everybody would be doing blogs, but nobody would have time to read all those blogs. Also commenting on the texts and visuals has decreased.
Is this blogging the next step in how our world developes. More individualism, less communication....... Any comments? Or are you all too busy writing your own blog.
Ruud
When I look at the statistics I can only see that the number of visitors decreases. I remeber that Geert de Decker once predicted that in a few years everybody would be doing blogs, but nobody would have time to read all those blogs. Also commenting on the texts and visuals has decreased.
Is this blogging the next step in how our world developes. More individualism, less communication....... Any comments? Or are you all too busy writing your own blog.
Ruud
Mail-Art from JK Post - USA
The Horror, The Horror, is the title of a work that JK Post sent me in this envelope. Also he included a new stamp-steet for the TAM Rubberstamp Archive.
Jeff Berner & Ben Vautier in Paris
A card from Jef Berner in Paris. He is organizing a special event in his Atelier Berner together with Ben Vautier. Should be interesting....
Mail from Montenegro
A strange surprise in the P.O. Box. This card from Montenegro. No sender-address on the card, so I guess all I can do is publish this on my Blog. Anyone knows who sent this? An interesting detail on this card is the Euro-valuta on the postage-stamp.
Decentralized Networking Congresses - 20 Years
A card from Peter Kuestermann (Germany). A special postagestamp from the Hungarian Postal Office about the 20 year celebration of the DNC (Decentralized Networker Congresses). In 1986 the first congresses took place. Even remember meeting Peter in Miden (Belgium) on the first european DNC. Every 6 years the DNC's took place. So for me the 20 year celebration is a strange number. But that is typical mail-art too. On November 8th 2006 the event will take place in Artpool, Hungary. So if you are in close to Budapest, this is your chance...
back-side card Peter Kuestermann (Germany
back-side card Peter Kuestermann (Germany
This week I received after a silence of more than a year a new card from Geof Huth in USA. Also on his blog :
http://qbdp.blogspot.com/
I noticed that he is active again. Nice to see his visual work again! Now he is back, I will sure look a bit more on his blog....
TAM was here Project 1983-1986
A new blog has started. The "TAM was here" project was done in 1983-1986 and is nog being digitized for you. See the link-list to find the project's blog, or go to:
http://tamwashere.blogspot.com/
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