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Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson 's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s.
Email art refers to artwork created for the medium of email. It includes computer graphics , animations , screensavers, digital scans of artwork in other media, and even ASCII art . When exhibited , Email art can be either displayed on a computer screen or similar type of display device, or the work can be printed out and displayed.
Mail art, Fluxus, neo-Dada, pop art Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as [ 1 ] [ 2 ] "New York's most famous unknown artist".
About his essay Exploring Mail Art (1984), Géza Perneckzy wrote: “The study of Guy Bleus outranks all other publications with its theoretical weight and conciseness.” [20] Moreover, he contributed to significant publications, such as Piotr Rypson’s Mail Art, Chuck Welch's Eternal Network, A Mail Art Anthology, or Vittore Baroni’s ...
He has written several influential books about mail art including Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography [9] and Rubber Stamp Art, [10] and has contributed to many of the seminal works about mail art and networking published in recent decades, including At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, [11] Chuck Welch's Eternal Network, A Mail Art Anthology, [12] and H.R. Fricker's ...
In 1998, Banana curated "Artistamps", an exhibit from the International Mail-Art Network of her collection of mail art, for the Sechelt Art Center in Sechelt, British Columbia. With minor changes, it was remounted in 1999 as the "Popular Art of Postal Parody" at the Richmond, B.C. Art Gallery and in 2000 at the Open Space Gallery in Victoria.
Janssen studied physics and mathematics before he became active with mail art in 1980, doing several international mail art projects. From 1994 till 2001 he conducted interviews with Fluxus and mail artists. In later years, Janssen focused on acrylic painting and individual correspondences.
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