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
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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
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