No hurry, I extended the deadline to April 1st 2001, I got many nice contributions already but I need more time to work on the project. Thanks for your collaboration, ciao, Vittore "The I.M.A.C.O.V.L. (Mail Artists Council of Virtual Lands) team in Belgium, R. De Meester and B. Simon, declared 2001 to be "the Mail Art Year of the Virtual Lands." Read all about it by visiting their web site at http://imacovl.citeglobe.com/ (you will also find there an invite to contribute to a collective artistamps project). Near the Edge Editions, the home of the mail art magazine Arte Postale! decided to support the promotion of 2001 as the year of imaginary countries by assembling a special artistamps issue titled JUST 4 F.U.N.? (F.U.N. is an acronym invented by my friend Permario Ciani and stands for Fantastic United Nations). To participate send an original design in black and white for an artistamp on the theme of virtual lands & creative de-globalization. size cm. 5.5 x 5.5 (inches 2.2 x 2.2) and/or 201 copies of an original artistamp (hopefully on the given theme, but not necessarily. Deadline: February 1, 2001. Of course all contributors will receive a copy of the magazine. In 2001 AAA/Near the Edge will try to organize an artistamps exhibition in Italy, to promote James Felter's book and the "Mail Art Year of Virtual Lands," so is you make artistamps or if you have new stampsheets, I will be happy to add them to my E.O.N. archive (and I will send some of my artistamps in exchange). Mail everything to the usual address: Vittore Baroni, via C. Battisti 339. 55049 Viareggio, Italy"
