having used email to distribute add to and pass immages and projects, that in turn could be printed and worked on in a tactile rather than/or as an alternitive to the digital way, i have found that it has been met with mixed feeling, those who have embraced, digitally manipulated, emailed back, also printed and worked on and sent or re scanned and emailed back.....and then there has been those who have been hostile, emailing requesting that i do not send add to and pass e(mail art)
as i understand it, as mail artists you are subject to whatever comes through your mail box, so why should the in box be any different, if indeed you are using the address for mail art. is email, not mail, i understand it to be another method of mail correspondance, so why should it not be as valid as the traditional postal system, as times change should practice not evolve phill x >From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Fluxlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FLUXLIST: Internet Art >Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:47:05 -0800 > >A cut & paste from Mail Art Message Board > >pk > >**************************** > >Author: honoria > Date: 11-02-01 18:40 > > In my research on Internet and Mail art I found this >article by mail artist Andrej Tisma... > > What is Internet Art? > Author: Andrej Tisma > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WEB.ART'S NATURE > >There is no doubt that web.art (internet art) is a new kind >of art that has some characteristics never seen before, in >such a pure form, in the history of arts. > Interactivity is one of those characteristics that makes >the viewer to become the creator of the artwork, of its >final form. The artwork gets its shapes thanks to the >activity of the viewer, and since the work is open, it can >always get new shapes. > >The hyperdimension is the second characteristics of the >web.art, that means that the work of web.art is infinite in >space and time. It can be developed in many directions, and >without limitations. > >The third characteristic is non materiality. The web.art >work doesn't exist in the real space, only as a digital code >on the disc. The work can be seen only by means of screen, >in form of thousands of sparkling pixels. So web.art work is >impermanent visualization of the world of ideas, and >therefore it stays non material, intangible and spiritual. > >By its characteristics the international Mail-Art movement >from the 60s and Networking from 80s can be seen in some >aspects as the forerunners of today's web.art. Derived from >Fluxus movement and Concept Art, Mail-Art was based on >international communication between artists, who were >exchanging ideas, artworks and collaborative projects. The >difference was only in the means of communication which then >was mail . Mail-Artists and later Networkers who preffered >personal meetings, common performances and debates, were >practicing an art of communication, collaboration and >interaction, spreading ideas all over the world regardless >of geographical, racial, national or ideological barriers, >same as web.artists are doing today. > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
