Very nice blog Pati B. ~Allan _____
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (",) Wishing You Were Here I have chosen, in the past, not to participate in various mail art projects for various reasons , from lack of interest in the subject, to disagreement with the theme, to just not having time, and so on. It is true, each artist must decide for themselves whether or not to participate. I have hosted many mailart projects in the past few years, and at first did a documentation at the end, scanning and printing thumbnails of all the entries and sending that , in color, along with names and addresses to all participants. The last two years, I have done online documentation, usually on a weekly (or so) basis to a webblog of all artwork sent to me, whether it is on the theme of the call, or not. I get a lot of 'random' mailart as well as answers to calls. For the calls, I do a periodic mailing of names and addresses to all who have submitted, but the primary docu is online scanning and posting..... takes a LOT of time, that is true, but is less costly than printing 100-200 color documentations. I really appreciate the people who can do the beautiful catalogues of the shows, but I suspect they have some kind of financial backing from the galleries, or community art associations. By the way .... check out my blog http://pati- <http://pati-bristow.livejournal.com/> bristow.livejournal.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 6:06 PM Subject: RE: (",) Wishing You Were Here I mostly agree with you Pati B. I think that the call in question DOES say that ALL works will be exhibited, but suggests that not all work will be documented online. This is a bit of a grey area because it can be extremely time consuming to scan or photograph every item, edit and adjust each image, then post it to a web site --- especially if the exhibit has no staff besides the curator. I have seen some shows get around this by posting photos of the whole exhibit instead of individual works. Like most questions in life, this one is probably best answered with, "it depends". And as mentioned in a previous post, there is nothing compelling anyone to participate in a call that they don't like. For example, I have decided not to participate in mail art calls that had political or religious themes that did not appeal to me. I never questioned the right of the organizers to put out the call though. It is not the organizer's responsibility to put out only those calls that I happen to agree with --- the choice of whether or not to participate is up to each individual artist. So Dragonfly, please keep the calls coming. I appreciate all your efforts to keep us informed! Thank you. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (",) Wishing You Were Here But then , if you limit what can be posted here ... that is censorship, too. I am not disagreeing with Lavona about the censorship idea .... I think a mailart call should document, post, ALL works sent, not by selection ... that is one of the basic premises of mailart, is it not??? Pati B. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 2:52 PM Subject: Re: (",) Wishing You Were Here Okey Dokey, I may cut out of here if it becomes a commercial thingy. I believe in Mail art, not donation things or censoring. Sorry folks. The Bitch --- Reed Altemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> net> wrote: > No, that's right, probably not a way to limit it > here. Best > to leave it up to folks on the list who they want to > support > or not. > > Dragonfly Dream wrote: > > > > > > : > > > >> Not allow these kind of invitations on this site. > OR > >> make it loud and clear > Thanks. LaVona > >> - > >> > > > > > > > > I don't think there is a way to limit what kind of > posts we do > > here..... I simply pass along calls that folks > post to my site. > > > > > > Dragonfly Dream > > www.dragonflydream <http://www.dragonflydream/> .com > > > > > > > > "The great end of art is to strike the imagination > with the power of a > > soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the > midst of a collapsing > > world." > > > > -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > > > > > > > http://www.flickr. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavonasherarts> com/photos/lavonasherarts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail. <http://mail.yahoo.com/> yahoo.com _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <http://www.aol.com/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437> AOL.com.
