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mail art
send it!
The Mail Art /
Internet Link
by
Chuck Welch
“Tele”
“far
is
off,”
Netlink
“to
a
Greek
“at
is
a
word
distance.”
terminology
interconnected
for
meaning
networks,”
especially communication networks
that are perceived to be distant.
Artists impart attitudes, values,
and sensibilities in their shared
communication
Aesthetic
with
others.
sensibilities,
when
coupled with social hierarchy and
economic inequality, create media
boundaries, “netclubs.”
Mail art
networking attempts to soar above
these distances, to fly beyond all
media boundaries-to telenetlink!
Mail art is communication that travels a physical/spiritual
distance between senders and recipients. For nearly forty years
mail artists have been enjoying interactive mail characterized
by free, open, often spirited visual/textual correspondances.
Mail artists have worked hard to abolish copyrights through
dispersed authorship. In the distant, parallel world of high
technology, telecommunication artists often work in the same
collaborative fabric interwoven with mail art. But emailartists
network online in a simulated, textual, paperless world. No
wonder there are mail artists who prefer the tangible, tactile,
handcrafted encounter of pen.
s
It is true that some postal artists
are suspicious of art and technology.
they
as
view
hasty,
telecommunications
simulated,
interaction
lacking
impersonal
in
privacy.
These mail artists find the timelag of postal delivery a desirable
quality.
Conversely,
there
telecommunication
artists
view
as
in
artists
aesthetic
hopelessly
are
who
unskilled
differentiation,
lost
in
a
slow,
antiquated, and expensive postal
bureaucracy.
Distances
widen
between these communication forms,
especially by the stilted influences
of normative art standards. Such
attitudes obscure the notion that
art communication is an intermedia
concept.
The
Artist
As
Networker
Distance between mail art and
electronic
art
is
sometimes
more imagined than real. The
notion that mail artists are
hostile
to
high
technology
is one common misconception.
Experimentation
media
with
technology
the
evolution
long
before
of
the
mass-
hastened
advent
art
of
telecommunications technology.
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