Ruud Janssen - IUOMA & TAM: April 2009

Ongoing Interview Ruud Janssen

on http://rjinterview.blogspot.com/ I published a new answer for an interview that is going on with Luciana Tamas from Roumenia, and used this illustration for the answer as well.

The website / blog "Ongoing Interview with Ruud Janssen" will be documented in a bookform as well. So if you ask questions there and the answers get posted, they will end up in a book I will publish probably next year.

Labels: Luciana Tamas, Mail from Ruud Janssen, Mail-Interview

Mail-Art ready for History?

Somehow the Mail-Art is being historified. If we want it or not. Mail-Art archives are sold or given to museums. Books about mail-art end up in muesums. The postal rates go high and less mail-art is being sent out. Digital platforms take over the communication-function for the new generation. I addressed this point to in a lecture I gave in Rotterdam last year. I invested a lot of time for that lecture. The sheets I used there to explain my views are all published in the book available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/5521047 . Or when you want it in colour that is possible too at: http://www.lulu.com/content/5520212 .

Labels: Books, History, Mail-Art, Ruud Janssen

New Interview - Blog

Again someone is interviewing me. Because it is not sure where the complete interviews end up I have a new strategy with interviews. The blog: http://rjinterview.blogspot.com/ is used for that. Any question I get in is answered with a blogposting. That way others can read the questions and answers, but even can intervene with another question. The concept is also good because I can use hyperlinks and images with the answers. Just have a look.....

Labels: Interview, Mail from Ruud Janssen, Mail-Interview

Mail from John M. Bennett - USA

Labels: John M. Bennett, Lancillotto Belini, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Tam Rubberstamp Archive, USA

Mail from Ed Buddz - USA

Labels: Ed Buddz, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Mail-Art Selfportraits, USA

Mail from Node Pajomo - USA

PJM sent me his issue of Node Pajomo!

Labels: Node Pajomo, PJM, USA

Mail from Mudhead - USA

Labels: Chris Mudhead Reynolds, Mail to Ruud Janssen, USA

Mail from Lubomya Tymkiv - Ukrain

Labels: Lubomya Tymkiv, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Ukrain

Mail from an unknown Zipcode

received this wonderful piece of linocut material. On the back just a zipcode inside the Netherlands. I returned an envelope to this zipcode with in it a small surprise. will see if this causes a reaction.

Labels: Mail to Ruud Janssen, Netherlands, Zipcode

Mail from Wilma Duguay - Canada

Labels: Canada, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Wilma Duguay

Mail from Joli - Netherlands

Labels: Joli, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Netherlands

Mail from E. Buado - USA

Labels: E. Buado, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Mail-Art Selfportraits, USA

Mail from Torma Cauli - Hungary

Labels: Hungary, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Torma Cauli

Mail from Thorsten Fuhrmann - Germany

Labels: Germany, Mail to Ruud Janssen, Thorsten Fuhrmann

IUOMA Certificate

Sent out to Wilma Duguay - Canada

Labels: Canada, IUOMA membership Certificate, Mail from Ruud Janssen, Wilma Duguay

Mail to Wolfgang Skodd - Germany

Special envelope for Wolfgang Skodd because he returned the O-Booklet for the Alphabet Booklet series. More about that later. I am slowly catching up on all the mail-art that piled up here.

Labels: Alphabet Booklets, Germany, Mail from Ruud Janssen, Wolfgang Skodd