hi alan, this isn't sol so it must be anybody, i did a piece last summer that was sort of computer involved in that i scanned the work and then printed it. after that i worked on the page again and mailed it as mail art. i called it 'remembrance of things vast' though i never (typical) finished all of it. i didn't send it by email though it is in my files somewhere. i am on my first cup of tea so i'm not sure if this post addresses the topic but good morning anyway.
bests, carol xoo alan bowman wrote: > > 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 -- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://laplaza.org/~datastar/index.html
