Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Overview of all Statements in BOOK-form




Buy this book Mail-Art Statements Collection by Ruud Janssen on Lulu.



Paperback book €19.99 Printed: 280 pages, 20.99 cm x 29.7 cm, perfect binding, white interior paper (55# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (90# weight), full-colour exterior ink


Description:

B&W Version of Statements Collection on Mail-Art by Ruud Janssen. Reprint of statements written in period 1993-2008 on the subject of mail-art. These statements were first published as pamphlets. Later on the Internet, and now as a collection in one book. Some statements and texts were also published on the Internet first and later as print-out sent into the network. The last part of this book contains visual statements made when the Millennium came about and most recent is an overview of the slides used at a lecture at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam explaining the concept of mail-art. In the past 28 years Ruud Janssen has intensively written about how E-mail and Internet would change mail-art, and it has.

A colour-version of the book is also available. See an overview of all publications at:

http://stores.lulu.com/iuoma

Enjoy reading this book!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Mail from Mirta Toledo - Argentina


Mail from Elisa Rita Fausto - Italy


This message was sent by ElisaRitaFausto (raoggion@tin.it) via ArtWanted.com:

Ruud,

I'm Fausto Oggionni from Italy, with my daughters Elisa and Rita have a pleasure to join IUOMA. We have sent to you our first experiment, idea and job by Rita (13) and Elisa (9), can you sen us your comments when you'll receive it?
Thanks!

ElisaRitaFausto from Italy

As you can see from the posting above, the mail-arrived got to Breda without any problem. Thanks & a good start of 2009 as well.

Mail from Mailartmartha - UK



Not often a 4-collage stampsheet returns to the TAM-Rubberstamp Archive. They sometimes are collected by someone with a mail-art archive as well I believe. A pitty, because these sheets deserve to be in the archive for sure. Contributions by: Massimo Medola (Italy), Mark Greenfield (UK), Keith Bates (UK) and MailartMartha (UK).
Thanks for returning Martha!

Mail from Cascadia Artpost - USA



Mail to Lancillotto Bellini - Italy



Lancillotto Bellini (Italy) sent me this paper with the request to return it to him. Did that yesterday.

Mail from Lubomyr Tymkiv - Ukraine




Add and Pass Booklet by Buz Blurr, Lancillotto Bellini, othar trott, Eberhard Janke







This Add & Pass on Booklet arrived here in Breda. Lancillotto seems to be the one who recycled it to me. I will see what to do with this. Work on it and pass on to someone else I suppose..... To show you what the content is I scanned the complete booklet so it doesn't get lost.

Mail from Robert Swierkiewiez - Hungary



Robert sends the card to Fluxlist Europe, which is Litsa Spathi's creation (see http://fluxlisteurope.blogspot.com/ . Then he adds my name. I am just a co-author there. So I am cinfused to whom he wants to send the card to.

Mail from Cascadia Artpost - USA



A large envelope with two wonderful gifts from Jack Latteman form Me and Litsa Spathi. A CD and a DVD. Very much apreciated and we listened to the music on the second Christmas Day.

Mail from Jim Hayes - USA

The World of Donald Evans


A book about Donald Evans that is part of the TAM-Archive. Donald Evans created lots of Artistamps in the 70-ies. He lived and worked in Amsterdam.

G - Annamaria Danese - Italy and Guido Utermark - Netherlands


The Alphabet Booklet G returned to Breda. See the blog:
for the content and the details of this project I started a few months ago

mail from Angela Behrendt - Germany




Mail from Claudio Romeo - Italy


Mail from Nico van Hoorn - Netherlands


Mail from Wilma Duguay - Canada


Mail from John Tostado - USA



Mail from Letterhead - Maastricht - Netherlands


Some more letters from Letterhead in maastricht arrived....

Cube for Claudio Romeo - Italy


Image by Claudio Romeo - Italy


Thursday, December 25, 2008

Another Alphabet Booklet returned


This Alphabet booklet arrived from Denmark. Also another one from Italy returned. They will be documented on the other blog: http://alphabetbooklets.blogspot.com/

Post from last weeks

In the last weeks I was a bit busy. The mail that arrived in those days will eventually also get published on this blog. Hopefully begore the new years starts.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy new 2009


What happens when you tape 39 cents in postage to an envelope?...


What happens when you tape 39 cents in postage to an envelope?... Was Jennie Hinchcliff (USA) wondering on http://iuoma-network.ning.com/forum/topics/what-happens-when-you-tape-39 and to test the postal system she sent two cards to Roland Halbritter (Germany) and me. Today the card arrived here. The card to Germany even arrived one day earlier (see the posting at: http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com/ ).


Thanks Jennie!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Money & Mail-Art - Part 1


at: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/forum/topics/what-happens-when-you-tape-39 you can find out how this piece of mail-art was started. Will let you know if and how it arrives.... Sent by Jernnie Hinchcliff - USA