A new statement ; FLUX US
Sunday 25 September 2011
Thursday 31 March 2011
Social Networks
The current social network cause the mail-art network to grow once again. A new generation (the 6th) learns online about mail-art and joins in.
Saturday 26 March 2011
Saturday 5 February 2011
New Generation of Mail-Artists
After writing the article on 5 generations of mail-artists I wondered what the 6th generation would be like. Now I know.
Online, in social networks, people discover the mail-art movement where ther speak of snail-mail used as a medium for art. They join online and start to send out their first mail-art piece after being online for such a long time.
So the 6th generation are the artists that move from the digital communication-world into the oldfashioned snail-mail world.
Online, in social networks, people discover the mail-art movement where ther speak of snail-mail used as a medium for art. They join online and start to send out their first mail-art piece after being online for such a long time.
So the 6th generation are the artists that move from the digital communication-world into the oldfashioned snail-mail world.
Thursday 6 January 2011
The new mail-Art Projects
A lot of new mail-art projects I see lately are simple of construction. The mail-artists thinks of a theme. Want the network to send him/her mailing (postal system only). What is the reward for the senders? Their artwork will be documented on a blog, and that is all the documentation that will ever be made.
For me it seems like a trade that isn't in balance. The artwork and sending costs a lot of money. The digitizing and making of a blog entry only takes a few minutes. I can understand that a lot of old-time mail-artists don't send in things to projects like these. Are these the modern times where the digital information is all we can afford for documentation?
For me it seems like a trade that isn't in balance. The artwork and sending costs a lot of money. The digitizing and making of a blog entry only takes a few minutes. I can understand that a lot of old-time mail-artists don't send in things to projects like these. Are these the modern times where the digital information is all we can afford for documentation?
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