Some help for Beginners in Networking

Drawing made by Ruud Janssen to explain some of the terms used in Networking. Not complete, but the essence of names used when explaining Networking.

Variation IUOMA-Logo

IUOMA Webshop

A sample of one of the intems form the shop : http://shops.cafepress.com/IUOMA the IUOMA shop with PR materials has opened. The small profit goes into the funds to keep the IUOMA platform online for free for all mail-artists.

IUOMA TV-Channel

Yes, it is there. IUOMA's own TV-Channel, available at:

http://iuoma.blip.tv/

For you to see some of the videos that were made.

Free Download

Only a selected set of books is free for download. Mostly because the other want the information just to be out there for free. Some new publications by TAM are in the beginning also available for free download but that option is removed after a few months to stimulate the sale of the real books which I hope will end up in collections, archives, libraries and museums. Sometimes printed versions of the books are donated to specific libraries (like MoMa Library New York, Schwering Museum Library Germany) to make the information available for the next generation too.

New book : Thesis Michael Lumb

MICHAEL LUMB. MAILART 1955 TO 1995: DEMOCRATIC ART AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE. ABSTRACT. This thesis, written by Michael Lumb in 1997, evaluates the importance of mailart in the late 1990s, traces its development and examines the reasons for the changes that have taken place in the nature of mailart practice. Includes also an interview by Ruud Janssen (NL) with Michael Lumb (UK).

You can download the complete file for free this time. A hardcopy version is available at costprice for you.

For ordering: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/thesis-michael-lumb/10895521

Two new books

On the Webshop from TAM-Publications (see besides this text) you will notice that two new books bave been published this month:

1. The lecture I gave at the Stendhal Gallery in New York was based on two sources: The essay I wrote for the Gallery and a slideshow I used at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy. I combined these two sources. The lecture was recorded on video by 3 sources (Mark Bloch, USA - Larry Miller - USA, Cecil Touchon - Canada). To make the sources available I made a 110 pages book out of these. Download of the files is currently for free.



2. The IUOMA was 20 years old. The period 1988-2008 is documented with a book containing texts by Ruud Janssen, Vittore Baroni, Wilma Duguay, Tulio Restrepo, Geert de Decker and John held Jr. Lots of illustration from the rich history of the IUOMA. Also for this book the material the download will be free for the first time.

see: http://stores.lulu.com/iuoma

New Book: Thesis Honoria

Title: Thesis Honoria

ID: 8151869
Category: Arts & Photography

Description:

The Dissertation Committee for Honoria Madelyn Kim Starbuck Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Clashing and Converging: Effects of the Internet on the Correspondence Art Network.

Publisher: TAM-Publications
Copyright Year: © 2010 by Honoria Starbuck
Language: English
Originaly written in 2003

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/thesis-honoria/8151869

The book is FREE for download. A printed version is available on non-profit basis.

New Book: The first 500 IUOMA-members at NING

As promissed the first 500 members are printed in a book. As hardcopy it is available at:

http://www.lulu.com/content/7247331

Details:

Paperback book €22.99 (205068 kb)

Download: 1 documents , 205068 KB

Printed: 305 pages, 20.99 cm x 29.7 cm, perfect binding, white interior paper (55# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (90# weight), full-colour exterior ink

Description:

The overview of the first 500 members that joined the IUOMA platform at NING. Al portfolios of the initial members are included and a complete list of names of all these members in order of joining the International Union of mail-Artists from November 2008 till June 2009.

The digital version of the book will be available for free. A hardcopy version is expensive but maybe worth the investment.

Found collectors item

For people who are looking for this collectors item:

Description:: Picasso Gaglione and J. Held Jr. where editors; illustrated thru out with b&w rubber stamp images; attached to front cover is a rubber stamp titled " Fake Picabia Bros. and images of Picasso Gaglione and John Held; plastic black spiral spine; xiv, 58pp; size: 9 x 11-1/4in; "This is a special rubber stamp edition of the FAKE PICABIA Bros. tour of Europe from 1 to 11 May 1995"; text by John Held jr.; contributors: Sophie Nagiscarde, Sanja Radivovic, Michel Hosszu, Daniel Daligand, Guy Bleus, Rod Summers, and Ruud Janssen; in EXCELLENT COND.

L'Art Tampon. a Rubber Stamp Performance (illustrated Periodical with an origianl rubber stamp multiple )GAGLIONE, Picasso / John Held Jr.

I found out that someone is selling a copy for 35 Euro's :

http://www.abebooks.de/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=367286784&searchurl=kn%3Druud%2Bjanssen%26sortby%3D3%26sts%3Dt%26x%3D14%26y%3D10

I have my own signed copy received from Bill (Picasso) Gaglione himself.

IUOMA-Member list January 2009

B&W and Colour-Version of the IUOMA Member list. This book contains an overview of all members that joined the http://iuoma-network.ning.com/ platform from November 13th 2008 till January 12th 2009. The IUOMA is now 20 years old. On this electronic platform the old and new IUOMA-members have joined in again. Each member created his/her own page with its own look. A screen capture of each member is included.

IUOMA-MEMBERLIST - JANUARY 2009

Two versions of the IUOMA member list are published. A colour-version and a B&W version. The download-version is available for free for all IUOMA-members. A printed version costs money but supports the IUOMA. The money will be used to donated these books to archives and museums. A future publication with historic and new material (both visual and text) are being planned and will be available later in 2009.

Details at : http://stores.lulu.com/iuoma for both books. Download for FREE.

Hardcopyversions:

B&W version: http://www.lulu.com/content/5669512 for € 19,98 (256 pages)


Colour-version: http://www.lulu.com/content/5669228 for € 49,98 (256 pages)


This overview of IUOMA-members has been made on January 12th 2009. As a first celebration of the 20-years that the IUOMA is alive a screen capture has been made of every member of the online Platform located at: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/

A book with texts and visuals connected to the 20 years on IUOMA is in preparation and will follow later this year. If you would like to send in a text or visual, just let me know.

New BOOK!

Paperback book €19.99 Printed: 280 pages, 20.99 cm x 29.7 cm, perfect binding, white interior paper (55# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (90# weight), full-colour exterior ink


Description:

B&W Version of Statements Collection on Mail-Art by Ruud Janssen. Reprint of statements written in period 1993-2008 on the subject of mail-art. These statements were first published as pamphlets. Later on the Internet, and now as a collection in one book. Some statements and texts were also published on the Internet first and later as print-out sent into the network. The last part of this book contains visual statements made when the Millennium came about and most recent is an overview of the slides used at a lecture at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam explaining the concept of mail-art. In the past 28 years Ruud Janssen has intensively written about how E-mail and Internet would change mail-art, and it has.

A colour-version of the book is also available. See an overview of all publications at:

http://stores.lulu.com/iuoma

Enjoy reading this book!

French postcards

THE NEW YORKER

September 24, 2008

French Postcards

A blogger on Libération?s Web site, Agnès Viard, reports that, in June, in Cahors, in the southwest of France, the mail artist Philippe Pissier (pronounced piece-Y¥) was being subjected to criminal investigation for having mailed a postcard of a bare-breasted woman, a nipple pierced with a safety pin, to a German exhibit of erotic mail art that had invited him to participate. After the assistant prosecutor Isabelle Ardeef began the investigation, Pissier was informed that he risked three years in prison and a fine of 175,000 euros for the crime of ?disturbing public order and mentally endangering children by means of a pornographic work.? The following month, his computer and many of his works were confiscated, but the artist has remained without official word since then. As Pissier remarked,

I am an adult, the mail sorters are adults, the mailman is an adult, and the addressee is an adult. I don?t see what the problem is.

The local press has weighed in, heaping scorn on Ardeef for the inquiry. Giard reminds readers that such paintings as ?Gabrielle d?Estrées,? by an anonymous French artist of the sixteenth century, is on open display at the Louvre, including to minors. ?Le ridicule ne tue pas? (?You can?t be killed by ridicule?), the French say; but officials there would do well to remember that, in 1966, Charles de Gaulle?s regime was shaken by its (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to ban Jacques Rivette?s movie ?La Religieuse,? a misstep that definitively revealed the aged President?s incommensurable distance from modern life.

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The Art of Communication - Mail Art Madness

The Art of Communication - Mail Art Madness was the title of an article about Ruud Janssen published in the magazine Rubberstampmadness, written by Nancy Brook Mandell (Issue January/February 1999).

I have also high-resultation scans if you can't read these images.

Queens Library Gallery : Transmit

These are the invitation and the first pages of a catalogue of the exhibition TRANSMIT held in 1999 at the Queens Library Gallery in New York. The theme: Fluxus, Mail-Art, Networks.

Interview with Ruud Janssen by Kate Lanxner for Rubberstampmadness

This is the interview with Ruud Janssen by Kate Lanxner for Rubberstampmadness done in 1985.

Books for Fluxus Heidelberg Center : Fluxus Performances 2003-2005

http://www.lulu.com/content/3996203

http://www.lulu.com/content/4108181

Interview for Livraision - Swedish Magazone

Interview that Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen gave for Livreaison, A Swedish Publication.

Mail Art Archives

An article about mail-Art archives I wrote back in the 90-ies. It dealt with how people then were building up their mail-art archives. Nowadays we are 20 years further. Some mail-artists have donated (or sold) their collections to archives, but some collections have vanished. It always is an interesting topic. Maybe should explore this a bit more in the near future.