Mail Art Archives 2008
(21 Weeks of Mail Art)
From March 19 to August 8 of 2009, I put together a digital collage and sent off weekly mail art emails to everybody on the "Cyber-Mail-Art Email List." As of August 8, it has been temporarily discontinued.
I am very much influenced by conceptual and mail art of the 1960's and 70's. I enjoy making small weekly pieces integrating photos and/or drawings with text, and usually having put them together in Photoshop, I send them off in emails to everyone on the email list.
I intend my Cyber-Mail-Art and this Mail Art Archives to be somewhat of a digital conceptual art venue, or correspondence art for the digital age. Mail art - small works and oftentimes collages - was originally sent off in envelopes and was ephemeral in a way because once it was sent off, it no longer belonged to the maker. Moreover, mail could get lost or damaged in the postal system, and in that case the maker really could not see it again. If I send mail art in emails, it does not have to be ephemeral. I could basically keep the originals (which I am free to alter - and "remix"- on the computer at a later time); on top of that, the same work (or copies of the work) could be sent to multiple recipients, and I can save them in this Archive so that many others can view them.
From March 19 to August 8 of 2009, I put together a digital collage and sent off weekly mail art emails to everybody on the "Cyber-Mail-Art Email List." As of August 8, it has been temporarily discontinued.
I am very much influenced by conceptual and mail art of the 1960's and 70's. I enjoy making small weekly pieces integrating photos and/or drawings with text, and usually having put them together in Photoshop, I send them off in emails to everyone on the email list.
I intend my Cyber-Mail-Art and this Mail Art Archives to be somewhat of a digital conceptual art venue, or correspondence art for the digital age. Mail art - small works and oftentimes collages - was originally sent off in envelopes and was ephemeral in a way because once it was sent off, it no longer belonged to the maker. Moreover, mail could get lost or damaged in the postal system, and in that case the maker really could not see it again. If I send mail art in emails, it does not have to be ephemeral. I could basically keep the originals (which I am free to alter - and "remix"- on the computer at a later time); on top of that, the same work (or copies of the work) could be sent to multiple recipients, and I can save them in this Archive so that many others can view them.
