earch for Robert Fontenot brings up a lot of deaths and woundings!
Google search for Alan Bowman brings up a lot of Scientology and New
Appointments!
Omens, divine signposts to your future self, or are there just lots of
people out there with the same names?
What's your Googlescope?
I actu
New entries are crawling in
BUT we do have two splendid new additions to the Freeformfreakout
Organisation Fridgepoetry Site
Fluxlist's very own Roger "Radio" Stevens and John "M." Bennett have
submitted poetry from their own personal refridgerators!!!
Go on! Have a look, you be glad you di
the fffo fridgepoetry, prose and prosecco division is pleased to announce
the addition of a new piece by ms ashar
to the fridgepoetry site
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry3.html
foundpoetry from other domestic situations is also welcome.
anna wombal
re
Dear all
See NEW additions to the Freeformfreakout Organisation Robert Fontenot
Collection!
Find out how to see what's really inside the envelopes!!
Decide what to send RF in return!!!
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fontenot/index.html
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutor
i noticed when i uploaded something to my Very slow site
http://space.tin.it/clubnet/abowman/freeformfreakoutorganisation.htm
that when the directories were viewed on the FTP screen, several were
missing, my overall account name appears to have changed too and the images
appear to have changed (qu
AARGHH!
why aren't these images showing???
the past lives series refuses to show for me, yet the "fill & return" one
do, and i cut and pasted the html for all!!!
help please!?
e.g this one = no show
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fontenot/rf11.html
but this
the freeformfreakout organisation let's upgrade bowman's computer div. has
managed to wipeout bowman's address book and all saved e-mails - good eh!?
as well as a host of other stuff
can someone repost the WAP stuff -emulators and the like
Allen can you send me your URL and the site that had th
dear all
the freeformfreakout organisation robert fontenot collection is still
growing, gain access to the marvel from maine's opere at:
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fontenot/index.html
For those of you who need more of a push, and in a vain attemt to get people
to apply for s
dear all,
as
'newly appointed "Head Curator"
Fontenot Consolidated Enterprises )Offsite Archive Dept:)'
send me your (or, a) head.
lets see what we come up with
al;-)
hi
RE
< Or maybe you could opt for a composite word.
>Tell me,
>Has anyone actually asked what's inside the envelopes?
Robert
scott rigby asked
so i sent him a pic of the contents of "this is me"
it's a problem i'm trying to resolve - need to rethink my 'marketing'
strategy - any ideas?
it's a shame cos the stuff's great...
sani!
baruffa
View a poem incorporating alle bukoff's fluxus midwest fridgemagnets
at
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry6.html
take the time to have a look at the rest too;)
hello my name is alan,
welcome to everybody!
i used to live in the UK
but am now in exile
i am the director of the fffo
as if anybody was bothered
new people - find out more about me (and realise why i don't contribute
much!!) here
http://space.tin.it/clubnet/abowman/freeformfreakoutorganisa
"IxSTtUuTIlx Flt FLUXLIST USIxi FLUXLIST"
ltITl fx l-ufIL USIxi lxLu Tsl LlTTltS lF Tsl lltx FLUXLIST.
fLfx lllufx uftus 15 2001
this document was created using FreeFormFreakoutFileTranslator V1:0
idea by bowman (FFFO)
hard work, programming and actual thinking by sol nte SPOW
dear all,
the Freeformfreakout Organisation Cleansing Services found this in a skip
out the back of the FFFO AstroPhysics and Carpentry Division.
So we put it online, like all the rest of the rubbish we find lying about.
It's old, but there's a picture!!!
Go on!
Have a look!!
You enjoy disap
dear all,
this is a genuine request!
i would be greatful if you could look at this and pass on any comments - i
would like to either restart this project, or bin it for good.
there is and explanation here
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/time.html
please feel free to pass on this U
Ahem!!!
there should have, of course, been this URL attache to the previuos mail...
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/cube.html
slinks off sheepishly, wondering "do sheep slink?"
- Original Message -----
From: "alan bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
can someone tell me if theses are
working?
purrlease?
big grin!!
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/cube.html
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/time.html
As a result of extensive (ahem!) research the stout fellows of the
Freeformfreakout Organisation are on the verge of producing their long
awaited book "BARCODES".
To commemorate the fact that they are even contemplating the finishing of a
project, the Freeformfreakout Organisation Barcodes and oth
missing barcodes!
let me know what you want and ill get onto it asap
bests
alan
alan bowman
via lorenzago 15/7
30174
mestre - venezia
italia
+39 (0)41 61 40 20
+39 (0)34 77 55 86 04
- Original Message -
From: "alan bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: ahem!
> to anybody who has asked for my address recently
>
> I sent the wrong one to everybody!!
>
> Another
Heiko
As a result of extensive (ahem!) research the stout fellows of the
Freeformfreakout Organisation are on the verge of producing their long
awaited book "BARCODES".
To commemorate the fact that they are even contemplating the finishing of a
project, the Freeformfreakout Organisation Barco
Dear all,
The Freeformfreakout Organisation would like to announce to opening of yet
another web-site.
"Be Calm"
."this site is a collection of simple images
and texts
to be viewed in silence"
This is an on-goi
amiani
and
The Legendary Stardust Fabio
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry7.thml
please lend your support to this project - we need it!
bests
alan bowman
nder.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry7.html
>
> please lend your support to this project - we need it!
>
> bests
>
> alan bowman
>
what happened to the WAP stuff?
allen did you get my site page stuff? did you try it and get lost?
bests
alan
i've just waded through about 20 posts from jason, (who has just made my
delete on site list), after being away for a couple of days
reply button fever (at least delet irrelevent parts of the original
message!)
one line replies and smart arsed quips.hmmm..i'd rather have my mail
box full
dear all,
here are some pics from the opening of
537 Broadway Comes to Venice
at the
Emily Harvey Associazione Culturale
San Polo, 387I-30125 VeneziaItaliaa
very successful show by all accounts
Please take a look! - see Emmett Williams, Ay-O,
Yoshi Wada, Tahkako Saito, Philip Corner
can someone s'plain me why my site worked with IE and not Netscape?
then I can try and fix it.
thanks to all for your kind comments and patience!
bests
alan
dear all
i've put all the images into a zip file, if any of you want to have a look -
let me know
might be better than my web efforts!
alan
http://www.fluxus-engineering.com
dear all,
i have to compile a (predominantly Fluxus related) mailing list for a
gallery
the trouble is, i've never done this before and i'm not really sure where to
start
does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
I would be most grateful!
Thanks
alan
> Is this a snail mail list or email list?
Both, I need an International list of artists, curator, galleries, critics,
newspapers, journals and collectors, (Gasp!)
for both snail and e mail purposes
There is an existing list but it needs updating and expanding, and as i have
a bit of free t
reed!
i'm working for emily harvey, there's a gallery here in venice too now. she
wants her list updated so if you think you can help me out, i'd be very
grateful.
I can handle any format ;-)
thanks and warmests
alan
dear all
i sent a personal mail to reed via the fluxlist
if you read it, please pretend that you didn't
alan
dear all
the boys and girls of the FFFO offices have been playing whilst bowman's
back was turned. they have plugged in the much unused office webcam, and
generally messed around with it.
you can see their handiwork at the following links
do you want to see a particular aspect of the FFFO offi
dear carol (and anyone else who's interested - silence, somewhere in the
distance a dog howls)
bowman's desktop - well bits of it anyway..
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/desktop/index.html
alan
;-)
- Original Message -
From: "Carol Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
the staff of the freeformfreakout organisation have had a vote, through
which they have decided, unanimously, that they are in total accordance with
the words of mr nte.
they, as a group, are whole-heartedly bored beyond belief with the
andersen/tamas discourse and wish to state that as a democra
we've just been to the jean eyous 2000 website (should that have an 'h' i
there?)
woo!
840 hits
we thought we had bad traffic problems - (we don't multi-list spam however)
yours
T Hee
Freeformfreakout Organisation
We don't really get the whole G2000 thing Division
why does eric constantly have to refer to ken friedman, why does he bring up
ken's name?
was ken involved in the G2000 thing, or tamas' tests?
let's vote
hands up who give a
ahem!
.
> Fluxlist poems 2.
> Anyone interested?
Yes,
the lads and lasses of the freeformfreakout organisation 'poetry, prose,
prosecco division' - (up for owt section) would be very interested in
participating in a second edition, sort of thing.
we would be interested in perhaps seeing the terms poet
Dear FluXlisters,
On Thursday 27th September, Bowman will be
travelling to New York City.
Anybody fancy a beer, coffee, cup of tea,
cake?
Yours
Dr. Banana Mowl
Vice President
Freeformfreakout Organisation (Hooray the Boss is
Going Away Division)
p.s. get's his timing perfect
eh!
you can't hear absolute silence (external)
because you hear your own sounds (internal)
so you'd probably be wasting your money buying a tape of silence(!)
(ahem!)
i have a document of an event
called
"Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running
Around Emily Harvey Gallery...
(in semi darkness)"
alan bowman 8-10-2001
i intend to produce an edition of 5 photocopied
booklets
i will sell them for photocopies of money, any
currency
i performed these using live artists
to stress:
spend the day between hf and a
computer.
to destress:
walk arm in arm in the cold with
ak
t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-Sunday
> . . . . how about a copy of an ileagally scanned (i.e. counterfit) 50.00
USD bill that I recieved from another artist in exchange for some art work
that i had "sold" him. . . . . or you can have the actual counterfit bill. .
. . .
>
Owen
>
owen,
howabout a fake photocopy of the forged bankno
baby i'm a rich man too!
ooh ee hoo!!
thanks
the 5 copies are now reserved, robert, melissa, owen, carol and patricia
i'll need postal addresses...
they shall be done in of course the usual fffo charmingly incompetent way
and posted as soon as i find some envelopes, actually i'll have to wait
count me in
alan bowman
via lorenzago 15/7
30174
mestre venezia
italy
yours in
antici
pation
alan
- Original Message -
From: "sarah tranter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Fwd: artsnews digest: November 02, 2001
>
> hiya alan...i was wading through my inbox and thought that this first item
> might be of some interest t
> Publication Party
> Henry Flynt
etc etc>
>
> [why isn't alan bowman posting this stuff?]
alan bowman is in italy and for some reason (probably good) wasn't given the
brief for this press release
he does however have the 'graduation' cd and recommends it
> What is his music like? I saw a cd of his used the other day and was
> tempted.
>
henry play(ed)s guitar and fiddle
he describes his music as 'avante garde hillbilly' and blues
to me it has a surprisingly mainstream feel/sound to it (however i have
fairly extreme tastes, musically)
he's an
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 artis
now my scanner's gone on the sick too!
must be a bug going round.
bugger!
all i did was ask it if there was a way to scan
(part of) the map of the fffo archipelago (sp?)
the cluster of islands and the lagoon in the corner
of the fffo living room, next to the tv.
perhaps the webcam is b
dear
Robert, Melissa, Owen, Carol and Princess
Petal,
re: your copies of
"Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running
Around Emily Harvey Gallery...
(in semi darkness)"
alan bowman 8-10-2001
I have not forgotten (gad! the wonders of ginko biloba..), however the
photocop
dear all,
the freeformfreakoutorganisation is somewhat bemused to present
the freeformfreakout organisation new york red wine incident
this site contains a collection of scribbles and texts which go some way to
showing the effect of 3 bottles of red wine and half a bottle of prosecco on
the FFF
dear all,
erm, pressed send by mistake
here is the information again
(with URL!)
> dear all,
> the freeformfreakoutorganisation is somewhat bemused to present
>
> the freeformfreakout organisation new york red wine incident
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/newyork/
http://digilander
dear all
sorry to post this to the list but i am somewhat
baffle and my boozle has been well and truly bammed!
all my websites semm to be up and running (well,
hobbling and pausing for frequent rests) however when i go to the FTP bit,
i can only see about half of the folders
e.g. on th
Dear all
more nonsense from the FreeformFreakout
Organisation Offices
take a look at what actually goes on
here,
a real, 'live', glimpse into the world of the
FFFO
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/ani/
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/ani/
http://digilander.iol.i
abbi
some points to hopefully open discussion ( if i'm not too late and some one
has already done so)
we had this discussion 4 or so years ago, we should check the archives.
i don't think that we came to any concrete conclusion.
obviously, there are different viewpoints, was 'fluxus' only the s
> >but what i am really
> looking to write about is how Fluxus is not dead, but still has a place in
> the art world.
..it's a name that has, for some come to represent a specific man, a
specific
group of artists during a specific period.
for others it has come
Dear All
Following the tremendous lack of
interest shown in the piece "10,000 Words on a Piece of String" (c) Bowman 1998,
the FreeformFreakout Organisation rather sheepishly presents a new
essay.
"Ten Thousand Words on the
Internet" Bowman 2001
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/
Dear All,
Tell us who shouted out the words
"hari hari supermarket,
hari hari supermarket,
hari hari hari supermarket
hari hari london bus
hari hari ladies lavatory" (this bit we're not so sure about - sheepish
grins!)
and win something from the freeformfreakout org. archives
fffo comp.
Dear Melissa,
I spoke to Alan Bowman today who you have arranged to meet tomorrow.
He apologises that he does not have any access to the internet at the moment
and he has asked me to send you a quick email to make further arrangements
as he has no telephone number for you either.
His number is C
5 PM
Subject: RE: FLUXLIST: FFFO Competitions Div
> Gong! from um angels egg cd i think
>
> -sherry
>
> -Original Message-
> From: alan bowman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FLUXLIST: FF
roger,
i saw gong a few years back in sunderland of all places, had the good
fortune to have a little chat with daevid allen.
you thunk right, he is off his trolley - in a wonderfully 'english' way
he sold me a camembert electrique t shirt - clever man, it was horrible!
gong are playing this
that's very worrying zap!
btw he also made a blatant typo too
we'll fix it soon(ish)
fffo1wdiv
me too, i ran it through an editor, which allows you to read the code
without opening the file
guess what!
there was nothing in it!
but it did try to download itself
reed PLEASE tell us you did it on purpose!
my anti-virus didn't pick anything up, but i feel particulary uneasy 'bout
thissun
dear
Robert, Melissa, Owen, Carol and Princess Petal,
re: your copies of
"Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running Around Emily Harvey
Gallery...
(in semi darkness)"
alan bowman 8-10-2001
Finally I got your booklets prepared only to find that the FreeformFreakout
Organisation
> True Life Adventure #674
delivered a telephone
d would be ideal...
(Deadline for entries 1st February 2002 - hopefully so we won't forget about
it)
to
alan bowman
dir. fffo poetry prose & prosecco div.
via lorenzago 15/7
30174
mestre - venezia
italy
ta!
err
hello
is there anybody there?
have i been unsu??ribed?
listens to sound of wind whistling through in box
some where in the distance, a door creaks and something howls
or is fluxlist down
or what
alan
carol!
what have you done!?!?!
i read your mail this morning and it started snowing here too
it's been snowing heavily almost all day now
it hardly ever snows in venice
is this some new sort of virus we wonder?
has anyone else been affected by a snowstorm after reading carol's mail
brr
ah the joys of peripherals...pt2
the good bit is when you get your scanner finally
working .
you've found the light, it's on.
you tried the 'test' program and the scanner made
the appropriate whirring noises.
you've heard the clever scanny bit inside
moving.
you've placed the thing to be s
i must have missed summat somewhere
what's all this NP mullarkey?
you know i just hate to think that i'm missing something!
;-)
no message
but
NP: gillian welch - elvis presley blues
is that right?, did i do it? did i do it? eh? eh?
al
Fluxlist People Meeting
Melissa McCarthy and Alan Bowman in a Mexican(?)
Restaurant somewhere near Times Square Oct 2001
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/newyork/melisalan.htm
can someone send me the links to the other
'meeting' pages ?
ta!
alan
I didn't even know she was ill.
I am so very sad, I've just done a drawing and a
copy of a booklet for her too. Now I don't know what to do.
I feel a bit lost this morning...I'm just glad I
had the chance to communicate with her, she will be missed greatly by the
FreeformFreakout Organis
well it's been quite a day
robin crozier was one of my tutors at
university
a great bloke, he filled our library with fluxus
literature, which i think only he and i ever read!
i am doubly sad now
I shall be there, hopefully i'll be on the bus trip too. I have to take
Ay-o' s finger box tower to the museum on sunday so I'm planning to stay a
while, so with any luck I'll be able to get some good photo's to put up for
everyone to see.
(Don't hold your collective breaths though... i recently
heading to venice for the carnival. any must-do-flux-thing while
i'm there?
.you can get in touch with me if you like, not terribly fluxy in
itself i know, but perhap something might come out of it...
alan
http://space.tin.it/clubnet/abowman/freeformfreakoutorganisatio
dear robert, owen and melissa
did you get your booklets "drawing a straight line"
etc?
i know carol did but it seemed to take a while to
get there
i thought i was being clever and i posted them from
the uk not italy
tcch! i hope this doesn't mean i'm going to have to
stop moaning about
The FreeformFreakout Organisation Embarrassed
Publicity Div
Begrudgingly present:
"take a ten storey apartment across
venice"
possibly bowman's most pointless exercise
yet
(the web page that is. believe it or not
there was a point to the actual exercise)
to view the latest fiasco go t
sorry to post tjhis via the list but i cant get through to you carol! i
keep getting error messsages-mail delivery failures and all that
anywayhowroad what the deadline again?
big cheesy grin
alan
i guess it's out then!
i had the great fortune (and fun) to perform , at the grand opening and on
the 2 performance days, as well as go on the Fluxus Tour. I joined in with
"octet for winds", "Four directional songs of doubt" and did Tomas Schmit's
"Zyklus"
a real experience
just got back 6 ro
rn of e-mail, then we can
send out the relevant postal address and perhaps even discuss reimbursement of
postage (yes we REALLY do want those maps!!).
Also, if anyone has any e-mailable
maps
Yours in antici
pation
Alan Bowman
The FreeFormFreakout Organisation Scroungers and
Ca
hi all
sol writ
In fact I like the direction he(as well as Dick Higgins) took Fluxus in
> best of all. The whole Mail Art thing and publishing via Something Else
> Press.it's all about owning the means of production, I like the
idea
> of particpating in art activity but at the same time n
>
> FLUXLIST ADDRESS BOOK
>
> the size is 3x5 inches and the deadline is
> 01 april.
what's that in centimetres?
sheepish grins and best wishes from
the freeformfreakout organisation mathematical duffers div.
europe
mIEKAL
>
> SEEDSIGNS
>
I REALLY like this, my compliments!
I love seeing gems like this on the web.
How long did it take to put together?
Made me realise just how dull the site I've ben working on for 3 months
actually is..Oh god...I feel a 'moment' coming on...
a
dear all and sundried,
finally he got round to it!
see some video caps from the Fluxus Constellation events in Genova last
month.
We reckon he might even get a bigger site up, after all he took six rolls of
film during the week. Yes he might get it done, if we can drag him out of
the pub that
np:lee 'scratch' perry - eponymous?
proposed np for the rest of the day so far (i.e. the pile on the table i dug
out earlier)
Ravi Shankar-Chants of india
various-Rough Trade 25 years of rough trade shops
einsturzende neubauten-strategies against architecture III
C
dear all and sundried
i have a massive list of email addresses in front
of me that some gave me - hard copy.
is there a quick and easy way to turn this into and
address book for outlook express or eudora?
I know that i'm going to have to type it all up,
but can i get around doing all the
sol!
not only are you apparently an all round good egg, but it would seem a
genius too!
many ta's
alan
seriously thinking about having a cold brew or two this very eventide ;-)
the other day the freeformfreakoutorganisation visited the hunter coll. open
studio thing
where they saw sherry wong, who obviously didnt recognise the fffo
she therefore joins a VERY long list
yours in a state
alanfff oh dear
dear all
this in from Locustmusic today - some revues of henry flynt's music
i was fortunate to get a preview of henry's new disc 'spindizzy' the other
day, which i think is being released by ampersound OR it could be recorded
i'm not sure
http://www.ampersound.com/
http://www.recorded.com/
http
where is this site - i must have missed something
somewhere!
a
shouldn't bukoff be
bigg all
?
Dear All
The lads and lasses of the Freeformfreakout
Organisation are on the cadge again.
This time does anyone have any 'victorian/maciunas
style pointing hands and arrows gifs and or jpegs? The images must be
freeware or unprotected/available for use in the public domain.
The FFFO Half
hi
can someone (allen?) send me the thursday
night fluxlist dinner page URL please?
i appear to have rather brilliantly deleted the
mail with it in
thanksalot
al
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