philip hi, here are my (somewhat confused) thoughts.....
i have done email art projects with various degrees of success, however i have always sent only instructions and/or requests, making for light posts i have never had any hostile responses. and as you say "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." of course, people can simple hit the delete button however, i am curious to know it you sent images via e-mail, unsolicited? recieving a large image file of unknown origin is a real pain, especially for those of us with slow connections and a lot of daily mail to deal with. for me, personally, mail art and e-mail art are 2 very different entities e-email art is perfectly valid, in my opinion. however any end result, any documentation or printed 'things' are very different to mail art 'objects', be them postcards, images, letters whatever. anything that arrives via your computer and is then reposted to a web-site or printed via you printer ahs been "reproduced" digitally by your computer an image, drawn and scanned by someone, is translated into another language to be read by a computer, send via the telephone system, re-translated by another computer to a language readably by the viewer, re-translated to enable printing and printed by another machine... who did it? this is very different to the tangible pieces produced by traditional mail art email art may be as valid as mail art, but perhaps for very different reasons anybody? sol? alan
