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JANUAR
1999
Projects WITHOUT Deadline
are marked
A few short stories...
Saturday, 02-Jan-99 09:38:58
- 195.100.20.121
writes:
Happy 1999
http://www2.tripnet.se/~nlg/
Lennart
Mail Art Call
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 15:49:16
- 168.39.74.3 writes:
Tangential Extremes
Send art no larger than 8.5 x 11in. on the subject of
Tangential Extremes (taking something to its outermost
point, its utmost limit-logic, emotion, life, nature,
whatever).
Deadline: 
Feb.
29, 1999.
Documentation in the form of crude copies to all
participants. Submissions displayed in cyberspace.
Send to:
Cheryl Duksta
308 Larkspur Circle
Buda, TX 78610
USA
Mail Art Call
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 15:49:16
- 168.39.74.3 writes:
Tangential Extremes
Send art no larger than 8.5 x 11in. on the subject of
Tangential Extremes (taking something to its outermost
point, its utmost limit-logic, emotion, life, nature,
whatever).
Deadline: Feb.
29, 1999.
Documentation in the form of crude copies to all
participants. Submissions displayed in cyberspace.
Send to:
Cheryl Duksta
308 Larkspur Circle
Buda, TX 78610
USA
What's Wrong? Send a postcard
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 16:21:40
- 207.48.84.141
writes:
WHAT'S WRONG? (Send a Postcord) // Are world problems and
local disasters making you feel depressed? There could be
a cure! Dr. Bird, alchemist, philosopher & world
traveler has elixirs for calming hot spots all over the
globe. He may have just the cure for your troubled
environment. Send him a postcard today. Let him know
what's wrong in your corner of the world and what cure
YOU envision. All correspondence will be displayed on Dr.
Bird's Cart of Perpetual Transformation at the Oakland
Museum of Art, Oakland, California) from March 6 through July 25,
1999. Send postcards through July 16 to Dr. Bird, c/o
Miz-Maze Theatre, PO Box 305, Inverness, California
94937.
Zea Morvitz
Tulips for Magda
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 16:38:11
- 152.171.248.154
writes:
Mail-Art-Zine "TULIPA"
theme: Tulip
size: 15x10cm (postcard)
black & white images only!
project posted by Merlin
Magda Lagerwerf
Animals
in Mailart 1998 is online now!>>>
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 16:48:28
>>mail Tao<< 1999 / 2000 / 2001
Thursday, 07-Jan-99 17:36:25
- 152.171.248.154
writes:
>>mail Tao<<
this is an invitation to write one or more pages of the
fabulous art history of incredible now-a-days present
time. Please send 25 Pages Din A4 (21x29,7cm), numbered,
signed, more than less original works of art; visuell
poetry , comix, DaDa, grafics, text,
©olla-gen-manipulations concerning our
prensen-cut-continouity to:
Karl-F.Hacker,
Karolingerstr.67,
D-25524 Ithehoe,
Germany
and receive one part of the story of arts of our time in
a nice limited (up to 25 ) + original edition. please
leev 2cm free space on left side for binding!
This project is ongoing.
this was posted by Merlin- Karl-Friedrich Hacker is a
very nice unique Artist making excellent original art. I
met him twice at Elbart deep under the harbour making his
own exhibitions there also he worked for us - "port
1998" and "Reeperbahn 1997" and
"Animals in Mailart 1998"
he is not online so I posted for him.
FEEL FREE TO POST PROJECTS AND NEWS OF FREE ARTISTS HERE
EVEN IT IS NOT YOURS!!!!!
All the best Wishes from me to you for 1999
this is a good start for me, 2 very big projects online
now (we made 1998) this new board (2356 visitors in one
month)
Special greetings from me to TAM, Ruud Janssen, you are a
real Networker and Mailartist - Merlin sometimes is lazy
and sometimes crazy... I will send you my Interview if
>I will find the lifetime.... I like you ,
Peace and Love and Art !!!!! for ALL....
MERLIN
edition bauwagen
BRAZIL 500 YEARS
Friday, 08-Jan-99 14:47:48
- 152.171.190.146
writes:
Mail Art International Show
"BRAZIL 500 YEARS"
We are celebrating 500 years of Brazil`s discovery and we
would like the whole planet to join us.
Join us and tell everyone you know about our Mail Art
Project! Please translate and adjust the project in your
own laguage and circulate it in your country. We´ll have
an exhibition with all the work in the second semester of
1999.
Technique: Any Medium
Size: A4 maximumx
Deadline:
July 31st 1999
No jury & no return
exhibition & documentation
Information: email: galartvf@correionet.com.br
http://www.correionet.com.br/~galartvf
Send your art to
Galeria de Arte Vera Ferro
R. Helena Steimberg, 348
Campinas - SP - Brazil 13092 - 481
PS by Merlin:
thank you for sending me your artwork for animal 98, it
is online now
Galeria de Arte
Vera Ferro
Crosses of the Earth
Sunday, 10-Jan-99 10:10:54
What you think about a mailart webring?
Monday, 11-Jan-99 12:20:49
- 152.170.47.106
writes:
World wide web is growing bigger and bigger. The search
enginges seldom will find the artpages I am searching
for.
So why not to create a common ring of links with all
mailart related sites??? What do you think about it and
how we can realize it???
Greetings
Art Love and Freedom
Merlin
Merlin
Re: What you think about a mailart webring?
Monday, 11-Jan-99 22:38:36
- 207.136.38.32
writes:
Friend Merlin -- I like the idea very much! I think your
ideas for keeping mail artists networking in every way
possible are terrific. Thanks!
ex posto facto
Re: What you think about a mailart webring?
Wednesday, 13-Jan-99 14:55:40
- 206.123.32.251
writes:
The people at http://www.webring.org/ might be able to
help with the technical aspects. But you still need a
brave soul somewhere to set it up, build a home page for
it, keep an eye on it. Make that a brave, _devoted_,
soul...
It would be a great resource, though!
JD
Re: Re: What you think about a mailart webring?Hi JD!
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 16:37:46
- 152.171.248.144
writes:
Thank you for your message, - I normally trust in systems
only I ! can control, but this may be a source to make an
exchange more effektive - also I more trust in individual
contacts inside the web and beside the web - my roots are
mailart - personal exchange - so .... somtimes I`ve got
lost in cyberspace but now I am back again and use it to
force the personal free artx-change... maybe it would
better to built an personal (watched and updated)
linkexchange without commercial promoters with strong
connections to snailmail roots, for the future of free
creativity exchange???
what do you think about it and who are you???
Merlin is a son of a royal nun and an incubus.
((you can read the history about in old letters from
Ireland 14th -century - it`s me - no joke)
So I have a lot of faces - but I found - art - free art -
mail art - is one of the best personal x-chage - magical
formulas worth - mine banned myself into an old oak -
after I told my secrets to a girlfriend...
let us plant a tree, free to grow.... tell me more about
us!
Art
Love
and Peace
Merlin
Merlin
Re: Re: Re: What you think about a mailart webring? Ring vs
exchange.
Friday, 15-Jan-99 20:26:09
- 206.123.32.240
writes:
Part one: link exchange versus webring.
This is made more delicate by the fact that (A) English
is no more my mother-tongue than it is yours, and (B)
neither of us knows how much the other knows about the
Web and its arcana. In this respect, we are both sort of
half-blind. So, please do not take umbrage if I supply
information that is already obvious to you...
I see link exchanges and webrings as quite different
beasts. Both have + sides, and - sides. To help propagate
mail art worldwide, I am much more in favor of a ring
than an exchange, because:
- A link exchange is often not as advertised as a ring.
People go to WebRing.org to find out if there is a ring
about their favorite subject, but also to browse (there
are _thousands_ of rings listed there). Either way, you
get people's attention.
- WebRing.org is a sufficiently big ressource in itself,
to be mentioned in Net news and resources. More indirect
advertising for its members.
- The strongest attraction to a ring, for me, is that
magic little bit of code at the bottom of the Home Page
of every member of the ring, that says *previous*,
*list*, *random*, *next 5*, etc. With this precious
little gadget, anyone who stumbles onto a member's Home
Page can navigate the _whole_ ring, backwards and
forwards, at their leisure!
- It is not practical for a Home Page to list _all_ the
links of any wide community, under the form of link
exchanges; it would be way too cumbersome.
Well, these are my thoughts on the subject and, contrary
to the impression I may have given, no, I do not own
shares in WebRing, and I don't work for them either, etc,
etc.
Hope this helps,
JD
Re: Re: Re: What you think about a mailart webring? About
JD
Friday, 15-Jan-99 20:35:51
- 206.123.32.240
writes:
Part two: JD
I can see from your site that you do indeed have a lot of
faces. Merlin is mercurial and protean.
By contrast, you could call me Slow River. I am slow in
my production, sometimes shallow, sometimes deep,
reflecting images back to the world with my own
distortions in them, often quiet, sometimes overflowing.
I am getting old (sure feels like it, these days!).
Like you, I want to flow freely and bring my works to
people freely, that they may like them or dislike them
equally freely.
JD is my initials. My civil name is Jean Dion. I live in
Quebec, wich is fiercely French-speaking, and more or
less a part of Canada. I am a 52 year old man, visual
artist, working with computers for 9 years now. I've done
the gallery-thing, the museum-thing, the
artist-center-thing (for 11 years!), the
grants-proposal-thing, the deal-with-the
-bureaucrats-thing, etc. I got sick of it all.
I've been doing my own form of guerilla mail art for a
couple of years, sending my work, unasked-for and
unexplained, to a lot of puzzled artists, artists
centers, galleries, museums, critics, bureaucrats,
friends, favorite authors, and complete unknowns, around
much of the Western World, for the heck of it.
I only recently became aware of the presence of the mail
art network on the Web (like I said, slow...) and the
wonderful work that you and people like you (Fan Mail,
and Ruud and Tam come to mind) are doing. I've begun
sending stuff out along the network.
But I am capricious, flowing where I will, not where I'm
told. So, for the moment, I am only sending stuff out to
people who do either exhibitions (old habits die hard)
and documentation, or at least documentation; supposing I
am attracted to the theme, of course... And slowly...
To give you a better idea of what I do, I'll snailmail
you a series I did. I like series, sometimes.
So, you can call me JD, or Slow River, or Jean, whatever.
I'm likely to be around, now and then...
Thank you, Merlin, for being who you are and for doing
what you are doing for all of us.
JD/Slow River/Jean
Re: Re: Re: Re: What you think about a mailart webring?
About JD
Sunday, 17-Jan-99 19:12:11
- 152.169.209.58
writes:
Thank you very much for all this explanations and
informations! It will take some time to think all about
this.
After learning how to handle electronic medias now I
think for myself I have to walk a step back to snailmail
- before I`ve got lost in cyberspace... last two years I
did not sent a lot of art out....
But also it is nice to share this virtual galleries (of
real projects and artworks)and this fast informationboard
about it.
I will find the time to add some pictures of mine to
Art
Love
and Peace
Merlin
R2K Project
Monday, 11-Jan-99 22:48:12
- 207.136.38.32
writes:
Art matters. From the Seniors' Watercolor Circle to
contemporary artists exploring theedge...teen angst to
school children's visions of tomorrow...Art defines our
deepest fears and most wistful dreams.
Aardvark Studios and the Garland Artist Group (GAG)
invites Artists worldwide to participate in the
Renaissance 2000 Project. Artists are invited to
contribute one original work of art (max size 12"w x
12"h x 12" d) in any medium. Throughout 1999
the art will be fused with on-site work to create a mixed
media assembage celebrating art's past, present and
future.
There are no fees to participate, no restrictions on
content, no age limits. Art in all media will be
incorporated into the Renaissance 2000 Project.
This is a non-profit, grassroots effort. No Art will be
sold. Nor corporate sponsorships are available. No art
can be returned. All participating artists will receive
documentation of the R2K Project.
To participate, send your artwork with name, address,
title, etc and a brief artist's statement (25 words or
less) to R2K Project, Aardvark Studios, POBox 542913,
Dallas, TX 75354-2913, USA between now and 12.31.99. Or
to work on-site at our studio, call 972-699-8953 or send
email to AARD1VARK@aol.com.
Please share this info!!
ex posto facto for
friends at Aardvark Studios
More Fluxus Bucks update info...
Monday, 11-Jan-99 23:02:42
- 207.136.38.32
writes:
The Fluxus Buck reunion deadline was October 1998, but
that is extended for another couple of months to February 27, 1999.
I have talked to a friend in a nearby city who would like
to put the bucks on display this Spring. YAY!!! The space
is under construction so the date isn't firm until they
know when it will be completed. But the bucks will go
there once it is! So, if you'd like your buck to be
there, you still have time to send it to me:
ex posto facto
pobox 495522
garland, tx 75049 usa
No returns, documentation to all, and I'll let you know
when they'll be up so you can come see!
ex posto facto
BLAH MAGAZINE
Tuesday, 12-Jan-99 19:40:05
- 195.7.227.177
writes:
BLAH MAGAZINE
New zine about mail art and the eternal network.
Produced by the fake blah brothers.
Artwork.
Reviews.
News.
Nonsence.
Blah,blah,blah.
Stuff.
Dada.
For a copy send something cool: Zines, Artistamps, ATC's,
Artwork, Etc...or just send a couple of IRC's or a few
dollars for the postage.
SEND TO: BLAH, 11 MALVERN ROAD, ALEXANDRA PARK,
NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5GZ UK.
Go on it's well worth a read. Issue to comes with a free
badge. A few copys of issue one are still avalable. get
em' now before they run out.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
Joe Decie & Apple Jack Dada
Re: BLAH MAGAZINE
Tuesday, 12-Jan-99 19:44:34
- 195.7.227.177
writes:
Hey Joe, I recieved a copy of blah a few weeks ago from a
friend. It's great. I love the small format. I'd recomend
any folks interested in artists books, mail art, zines,
should write to Joe and get a copy.
David Truelove
Re: BLAH MAGAZINE
Tuesday, 12-Jan-99 19:47:56
- 195.7.227.177
writes:
Yes! I lked your magazine very much also.
I did not know you email.
Thanks also to Merlin for great web site.
Edvard.
Edvard Presscott
Blah, Blah, Blah RE: Blah
Tuesday, 12-Jan-99 19:53:58
- 195.7.227.177
writes:
Blah web site will be coming out soon.
more news later.
DaDa.
Re: Re: BLAH MAGAZINE
Wednesday, 13-Jan-99 06:04:21
- 195.7.227.144
writes:
I've read Blah, it's a neat little publication.
When's the next issue out ?
AMY
Mail Art Rainbow Child
Amy Cookson
Re: Re: BLAH MAGAZINE / for Edvard,
Wednesday, 13-Jan-99 13:30:27
- 152.167.23.68
writes:
Hi Edvard thanks for compliments...
most people do not understand what great source this
could be, you can post htmlcode her, linking to pictures,
need no e-mail for posting, no password , everything is
free- but watched by Merlin ( I will not censore!!!!!!!)
every free artist is welcome here! I work like Ruggero
Maggi told me:" to use systems in the place of
systems against systems" . . . let´s walk on and
carryon all these snailmailconnections into the new
century!!! we are the source of creativity aren´t we?
Art Love and Peace
the Falcon
Merlin
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 13:39:15
- 152.170.5.98
writes:
Leaves on tour
Send me leaves, any size, any color, any species. Send
them just like that or USE THEM to write, paint, print,
cut, stick, paste, burn, or what you want! If you know
the name of the plant, write it somewhere and put the
date of harvest. Deadline: end 1999.
Send to: HMA (Happy Mail Artists)
c/o Sébastien Vellut and Florence L.
153, Rue Verte
1030 Bruxelles
Belgium.
Documentation to all!
HMA (Happy Mail
Artists)
Gestern - Yesterday
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 13:43:59
- 152.170.5.98
writes:
Gestern - Yesterday
Gestempelte Arbeiten zu diesem Thema, nicht größer als
DIN A 5 bis zum 15.07.99 an
Heindesign, Eilper Str. 67, 58091 Hagen
rubberstamped works, not bigger than A5 (14,5x21cm)
Deadline July
15th 1999 to
Heindesign,
Eilper Str. 67,
D-58091 Hagen
Germany
Cancer and the Environment
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 13:45:39
- 152.170.5.98
writes:
Cancer and the Environment
International mail art show. Any 2-D medium ok: collage,
rubber stamp, print, xerox, photo, drawing, painting,
etc. No larger than 13 cm x 21 cm. NO returns. All
participants will receive a catalog. All entries will be
displayed. Entry deadline April 1, 1999
Mail Art Show/WCRC
3023 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705 USA
WCRC
Millenium
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 13:48:45
- 152.170.5.98
writes:
Millenium
All free: Techniken, Materialien, Größe
Doc to all, Deadline: 01.01.2001
STEMPELdocument, dasARCHIV,
c/o holger minotto,
langestr. 51,
34131 kassel
Germany
dasARCHIV
Sea and Ocean Project
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 15:58:10
- 205.188.198.47
writes:
Please send your artworks on the theme "Sea and
Ocean."
Answers and documentation to all.
Deadline: 9
July, 1999
Olivia Hartigan
1/92 Asbury St.
Ocean Grove
Victoria 3226
Australia
Olivia Hartigan
Kobb Laboratories VHS Video Compilation
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 16:09:53
- 205.188.198.47
writes:
Send 10 minutes (approx) of footage on an otherwise blank
T-120 VHS casette. Anything you consider strange,
interesting or simply enjoyable viewing is fine.
Your segment becomes part of a 2-hour mix of merry mayhem
and your videotape is returned filled with weirdness!
Any adult with a TV and VCR can play. Please try to
record your footage at or near the start of the tape.
Participants names and addresses are held strictly
confidential.
Ongoing- No deadline, no rejections.
Your tape is returned free via 4th class mail. If you'd
prefer your tape returned via 1st class mail, please
include a US dollar.
Offer limited to NTSC (N. American) formatted VCRs. We
are unable to make conversions from PAL format.
Send questions/comments/tapes to:
Kobb Laboratories
PO Box 30231
Pensacola, FL 32503-1231 USA
David M. Coble
photo exchange
Thursday, 14-Jan-99 16:17:24
- 205.188.198.47
writes:
Kindly send me a photograph you have taken and I will
reply with one of mine.
b. saved post
p.o. box 7464
richmond, va 23221 usa
B. Saved
LIPS
Friday, 15-Jan-99 01:41:07
- 209.172.208.54
writes:
Howdy Merlin, Well since I'm hardwired now I thought I
should take advantage of your cyberpresence to promote my
"Lips of the Network" project (which, among the
people who have checked into your page, you, me, Magda,
ex posto facto, & Jörg Seifert have already
participated in).. anyway, to participate, all you need
to do is send me a reproducible image of yuour lips (if
you don't have access to lipstick, ink or watercolots
will work, the darker the better). I will incorporate
your lip print into a sheet of artistamps, at least one
to all participants. Documentation is ongoing, & the
next one will be released in April 1999 (earlier or later
depending on how fast the lips come in). To participate,
send your lip print to: Boog, PO Box 1313, Lawrence, KS
66044 USA. Entiries will also be indirectly submitted to
"Tulips for Magda" (see below).
Cybernetically yours,
Boog
Boog
The Hair of the Network
Sunday, 17-Jan-99 16:34:08
- 171.208.154.230
writes:
MAIL-ART archive
THE HAIR OF THE NETWORK
Send Mail-Art with or about your HAIR to the Archives
Marlies Mulders
Älde Hiemen 4
8407 ELL Terwispel
Holland
Size 10,5x15cm
Doc to all
Please send me a sample of you Hair before we all lose it
Marlies.
Marlies
Mulders
For JD!!!
Monday, 18-Jan-99 13:31:25
ABSTRACTION
Tuesday, 19-Jan-99 12:12:22
- 152.171.138.154
writes:
ABSTRACTION: order, instict
or both?
INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART EXHIBITION
max size: A4 - Technics: free
no return - SHOW & DOCUMENTATION
Deadline:
April 30, 1999
send to:
ACCADEMIA D`ARTE DI PISA
Via L. Boccerini 12
56122 Pisa (Italy)
Accademia DÁrte Di Pisa
for slow river
Tuesday, 19-Jan-99 15:50:13
Bric a brac has moved, and it's changed a bit too.
Tuesday, 19-Jan-99 18:52:36
- 152.167.38.17
writes:
BRIC A BRAC NEWS
Bric a brac has moved, and it's changed a bit too.
NEW EDITOR: P.Collins, 128 Kingston Road,Tedington,
Middlesex, uk.
NEW THEME: Mail art as science.
same size and quantity as before.
Joe Decie
I want to make mailart with artists
Tuesday, 19-Jan-99 21:21:00
Mail-Interviews
Friday, 22-Jan-99 11:22:23
- 195.121.64.5
writes:
At my site there are already 40+ interviews online. I am
still continuing this project and another 25 interviews
are in progress. Just now I have started with some of the
visual aspects of the mail-interviews online. In the
published booklets the visuals were always there, and now
gradually (with the help of a new purchased digital
camera) I will be able to publishe visual images. The
first visual part is current being made, and you have
access to all at the
interviews-page.
Ruud Janssen
Demoness MailArt (Low Tech - High Tech)
Sunday, 24-Jan-99 17:04:16
quick and dirty
Tuesday, 26-Jan-99 07:02:39
- 134.100.200.81
writes:
send your e-mailart,
theme quick and dirty,
you can send also html-files,
not bigger than 30 KB
email: virtuelle-atelier@usa.net
also see:http://www.virtuelle-atelier.de/aktion/
mailart/mail.htm
D. Daniels
Dieter Daniels
New Mail-Interview
Wednesday, 27-Jan-99 16:07:21
- 195.121.65.205
writes:
NEW
- MAIL-INTERVIEW with Litsa Spathi. The visual part
of the mail-interview is now online. TEN envelopes, and
18 enlargements of details of these envelopes are there
for you to see. All thanks to my new digital camera which
makes it easy for me to transfer snail-mail into digital
images.
TAM-Publications
Mail Art Project- Wipe
Thursday, 28-Jan-99 22:27:14
- 205.188.198.154
writes:
Wipe- Light Weight Bookwork
Please send 40 sheets of printed toilet tissue. Open
theme and technique, rubber stamp, etc.
No organic materials or traces, please.
Ongoing project, edition sent every 20 participants.
Send to: Field Study, PO Box 1838
Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Field Study
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