28-03-2010

Reading to much about history of Mail-Art makes you wonder what will come next in all the developements in communicationtools we have available nowedays.

22-12-2009

A rubberstamp tells more because it is in fact a reproduction-machine that -if used in the right network- can have quite an impact.

Center of the Network

Every mail-artist is the center of his/her own network. The people he/she meets and doesn't like, he/she ignores them. Only the persons who play the way he/she likes stay part of the network. That is why eveybody has his/her own personalized network.

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The new GLOBAL MAIL from Ashley Parker Owens in USA contains approximately 500 entries (addresses, contacts, projects). The impact of the magazine is large. Once you get such a magazine as a newcomer you can go any direction you choose. The network is no longer a closed circuit or an underground art-movement. Global Mail is a correct title, but it is strange too. The intimate contacts I built up in mail-art are very important for me, and this can only be with a small group of people. Now that this GLOBAL MAIL is on Internet too, all kind of networks are mixed together. They will influence eachother and build a new network of networks somewhere in the future. But I've learned that I don't need more and more contacts, I only need a limited amount of good contacts with old or new friends because my time and life are limited.