Carl Loeffler died on February 5, 2001 in Pittsburg, PA. He was the former Director of La Mamelle, a highly regarded alternative art center in San Francisco in the seventies and eighties. Loeffler organized a number of exhibitions on Mail Art, rubber stamp art and Fluxus, and was the publisher of the periodical Art Com and the Mike Crane/Mary Stofflet book Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity (Contemporary Art Press, 1984). Loeffler was also one of the most active presenters of Video and Performance Art on the West Coast. After leaving San Francisco, Loeffler taught Virtual Reality at the Carneige-Mellon Institute in Pittsburg. He had been ill with various ailments the past year. Several members of the Bay Area Dadaists, whom Loeffler supported in many ways, are hosting a Dadaland Dinner for Carl Loeffler, at a yet unspecified site on Friday, February 23, 2001. For more information contact John Held, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
