Mail Art oldtimers

For the Mail-Art oldtimers with over 30 years experience, the current mail-art network is a strange one. The component INTERNET was added and brought blogs, websites, social networks, and a very speedy communication that made Post-Office vanish worldwide. What is left of the Mail-Art spirit they wonder.....

from Digital to Analog

The last years all new members that enter the Mail-Art mostly discover about it online on one of the many websites, blogs or even social networks. They like what they see and start to send out mail-art the traditional way for the first time.

The last years old mail-artists who said the Internet would kill mail-art and they didn't do Internet, they actually enter Internet and show us their history.

The Mail-Art network has changed a lot.

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.

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.

Digital Mail-Art

Mail-Art has to do with the process. With digital Mail-Art there are no artifacts left other then bits and bytes. I prefer the hardcopy Mail-Art where the artifacts are objects and paper and other materials one can hold and treasure.

11-04-2010

Fluxus and a good definition do not mix.

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.

21-12-2009

After working with the mail-art network for so many years it becomes more and more difficult to give a good definition of what Mail-Art is about.

19-12-2009

Discovering Mail-Art is a happening on its own. If you accept it in your life, it will change your life and your circle of friends is a very short time.

Ruud Janssen - Breda, 19-12-2009