Wolfgang Petrovsky wurde 1947 in Freital-Hainsberg bei Dresden geboren. Von 1966 bis 1970 studierte er an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig (Diplom). Seit 1979 ist er in Freital freischaffend künstlerisch tätig, er beginnt die Arbeit am Bitterfeld-Projekt. Politische Themen setzte er ab 1980 in der Postkartenserie Signale um, die sich gegen die Raketenstationierung in Ost und West richtete. Neben Malerei und Collagen entstanden seit 1982  z.T. in Zusammenarbeit mit Frank Voigt weitere Postkartenserien u.a. zu Viktor Klemperer, zum Thema Perestroika und zu DaDa.
1989 war Petrovsky Mitbegründer des Kunstvereins Bitterfeld/Wolfen und Mitinitiator des Aufrufs Künstler für Bitterfeld. Er lehrte von 1990 bis 1993 an den Hochschulen für Bildende Künste in  Dresden und in Hamburg und erhielt den El-Lissitzky-Preis 1990, den Kulturpreis des DGB 1993 und den Kunstpreis der Stadt Freital 2002. Im Jahre 2007 zeigte er eine umfangreiche Ausstellung unter dem Titel: Spuren/der Karren/Weg-Zeichen in den Städtischen Sammlungen Freital auf  Schloß Burgk, in der Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden und im k.u.n.s.t.-verein Freital. Die Edition Staeck verlegt einige seiner grafischen Arbeiten.

Projekte/projects:

• 1982/83 Projekt Hoffnung
• 1989 Erinnerung 1. September 1939
• 2002 zu Mauersprünge/Klopfzeichen

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Petrovsky was born in Freital-Hainsberg near Dresden in 1947. From 1966 to 1970 he studied at Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig (on diploma). Since 1969 he has been working as free artist and he started his Bitterfeld project. From 1980 on he realized political themes in his postcard series Signale, that addressed itself against rocket positioning in East and West.  Besides paintings and collages some more postcard series were realized since 1982, partly together with Frank Voigt, covering topics like Viktor Klemperer, the Perestroika and DaDa.
In 1989 Petrovsky was co-founder of the art society Kunstverein Bitterfeld/Wolfen and one of the initiators of the call Artists for Bitterfeld. He taught at the Universities for Fine Arts in Dresden and Hamburg from 1990 to 1993 and received the El-Lissitzky-price in 1990, the award for culture of the DGB (Confederation of German Trade Unions) in 1993 and the price of the city of Freital in 2002. In 2007 he did an extensive exhibition with the title: Spuren/der Karren/Weg-Zeichen in the civic collections of the city of Freital (Städtischen Sammlungen Freital auf Schloß Burgk), in the Savings Bank of Eastern Saxony in Dresden and in the k.u.n.s.t. association in Freital. The Edition Staeck publishes some of his graphic works.

Ausgewählte Arbeiten/selected works

Literatur (Auswahl)/literature (selection)

• Staeck, Rolf: Nehmen Sie DaDa ernst, Faltblatt zur Ausstellung Spuren/der Karren/Weg-Zeichen, 2007.

Links

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Petrovsky
• http://www.edition-staeck.de/index.html?edition_staeck_kuenstler_petrovsky.htm

Pit L. Grosse, oder kurz PLG, wurde 1947 in Bremen geboren. Nach einer Lehrausbildung studierte er Malerei und Bildhauerei und legte 1975 sein Diplom als Bildhauer (Gestalter) ab. Danach war er sowohl als Kunstlehrer in Bremen als auch freischaffend künstlerisch tätig. 1979 zog er nach Friesland um. Er baut Objektkästen und beteiligt sich an verschiedenen Künstlerbuch-Projekten. 1984 wurde er durch Heino Otte mit der internationalen Mail Art-Szene bekannt gemacht, an der er regen Anteil nahm. Im Jahre 2004 übergab er sein gesamtes Mail Art-Archiv (140 kg) an das Neue Museum Weserburg in Bremen.
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Pit L. Grosse, or in short PLG, was born in Bremen in 1947. After his apprenticeship he studied painting and sculpturing and received his diploma as scuplturer (designer) in 1975. Afterwards he worked as art teacher in Bremen as well as free artist. In 1979 he moved to Friesland. He builds small object boxes and participates in various artists' books projects. Via Heino Otte he got to know the international Mail Art scene in 1984, in which he since then participated actively. In 2004 he handed over his Mail Art archive (140 kg) to the Neue Museum Weserburg in Bremen.

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Está realizado sobre tela de lino  2/2 y sencillamente queda ¡¡magnifique!! y yo feliz porque es la primera vez que tengo una carta bordada en mi mano y también por la belleza del bordado ¡¡Muchas gracias Jaqueline, tu bordado es precioso!!

Para las amigas que no conocen este tipo de bordado, les cuento que ¡es hermoso que el cartero te entregue una carta así! realmente el timbre postal está sellado por el correo, el bordado estaba envuelto en un plástico transparente, con una ventana para que se pueda sellar el envío postal, el remitente venía pegado al dorso del plástico en una bella tarjeta con sus datos.

¡Hasta pronto!

Un jour, j'ai reçu un commentaire dans l'un des deux post sur l'art postale, a été écrit par Jaqueline du blog Jaqueline et Le blog de mes échanges. J'essaie toujours de répondre à tous les commentaires et visiter les différents blogs ou site Web. Lorsque j'ai visité son blog, j'ai vu qu'elle avait de nombreux modèles de ce type de broderie et j'adore ce qu'elle fait. Nous avons écrit plusieurs mails et elle m'a envoyé cette belle broderie et des beaux-arts de carte postale.

Cette lettre est brodé avec toile du lin12 avec 2 brins de mouliné DMC en 2/2 et est tout simplement magnifique!! et moi, je suis heureux parce que c'est la première fois que j'ai une lettre brodé dans ma main et aussi par sa finesse. Jaqueline je vous remercie, votre broderie est très belle!!

Pour les amies qui ne savent pas de ce type de broderie, je vous dire qu'il a été enveloppé dans un plastic transparent, avec une fenêtre pour le cachet de la poste et l'addresse de l'expéditeur est par darrière sur ce plastic transparent.

A bientôt!

One day I received a comment in one of two post about postal art, it was wrote by Jaqueline. She have two blogs: Jaqueline and Le blog de mes échanges. I always try to respond to all the comments and when I visited her blog, I saw that she had many models of this type of embroidery and I love what she does. We wrote us several mails and she sent me this beautiful and very fine embroidery of postal art.

It was embroidered on linen fabric 2/2 and it's simply magnifique!" Jaqueline, thanks so much!! your embroidery is beautiful!!

For friends who do not know this type of embroidery, I tell them that was beautiful when the postman delivered that letter "special" to us!! The embroidery was wrapped in a transparent plastic with a window for the postage stamp, the sender is back, glued on plastic with a beautiful card.

All the best!!

Ken Friedman wurde 1949 in New London, Connecticut, in den USA geboren. Er wurde eine zentrale Figur der Fluxus- und der Mail Art-Bewegung und arbeitete eng mit den Fluxus-Künstlern George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik und Joseph Beuys zusammen. 1966 hatte er seine erste Einzelausstellung in New York. Er nannte sich General Manager der  Something Else Press, seinem Fluxus-Verlag.
1971 schloß er sein Studium mit einem Master of Arts für Interdisziplinäre Studien mit den Bereichen Bildung, Psychologie und Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität von San Francisco ab. Seinen Doktortitel erhielt er 1976 von der United States International University. In den 1970er Jahren war er Direktor des Institute for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Art in San Diego und in der Mitte der 1980er Jahre war er Präsident der Art Economist Corporation in New York.
Friedman war Professor in der Fachabteilung für Kultur, Kommunikation und Sprache an der Norwegian School of Management in Oslo und am Design Research Center in Kopenhagen. 2007 wurde er zum Dekan der Fakultät für Design an der Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australien, gewählt. Die Loughborough University in Großbritannien verlieh ihm den Ehrendoktortitel.
Ken Friedman lebt heute in Kjøpmannskjær in Norwegen. Er hat sowohl über Fluxus und Intermedia als auch über Mail Art geschrieben.
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Friedman was born in New London, Connecticut, USA, in 1949. He became a seminal figure in the Fluxus- and Mail Art movement and worked closely together with Fluxus artists like George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuy. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. He called himself general manager of Something Else Press, his own Fluxus publishing house.
Friedman received his Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in education, psychology and social science from San Francisco State University in 1971. He received his doctorate in 1976 from the United States International University. In the 1970s he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Contemporary Art, San Diego and during the mid 1980s he was President of the Art Economist Corporation in New York.
Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, and at the Design Research Center at Denmark's Design School in Copenhagen. In 2007, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. The Loughborough University in the UK honored Friedman with the degree  Doctor of Science, honoris causa.
Today he lives in Kjøpmannskjær in Norwegen. He wrote about Fluxus, Intermedia as well as Mail Art.

Ausgewählte Arbeiten/selected works

Literatur (Auswahl)/literature (selection)

• Friedman, Ken (Hg.): The Fluxus Reader, 1998
• Friedman, Ken: Vierzig Jahre Fluxus.
  Download auch in deutsch über: Forty Years of Fluxus by Ken Friedman

Links

• Interview Ken Friedman von Ruud Janssen (de)

Der französischer Konzeptkünstler Jean-Noël Laszlo wurde 1957 in Rio de Janeiro in Brasilien geboren. Heute lebt und arbeitet er in Toulon in Frankreich. Seit 1986 ist er im weltweiten Mail Art-Netzwerk aktiv. Besonders bekannt wurde Laszlo durch seine Ausstellung der Künstlerbriefmarken "Timbre d'Artiste" im Musée de Poste Paris. Dort befindet sich heute auch ein großer Teil seines Archivs.
Seit 1996 arbeitet Laszlo am Projekt "Correspondances", das visuelle Poesie mit traditioneller Kunst und Netzkunst verbindet.
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French conceptual artist Jean-Noël Laszlo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1957. Today he lives and works in Toulon, France. He has been active in the Mail Art network since 1986, and he organized many Mail Art projects. Especially his artist stamp exhibition "Timbre d' Artiste" in Musée de la Poste Paris made him popular. This museum owns the major part of his archive.
Since 1996, he worked in the project "Correspondances" which combines poetry and visual arts, traditional exhibitions and network art.
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L’artiste conceptuel français Jean-Noël Laszlo est né à Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, en 1957. Aujourd’hui il vit à Toulon, France. Il a été actif dans le réseau du Mail Art depuis 1986, et a organisé plusieurs projets de Mail Art. C’est notamment son exposition « Timbre d’Artiste » au Musée de la Poste Paris, qui l’a fait connaître. Ce musée possède la plus grande partie de ses archives.
Depuis 1996, il travaille au projet "Correspondances"» qui associe poésie et art visuel, exposition traditionnelle et art de réseau.

Projekte/projects:

• 1986 Le bagne c¹est les autres
• 1986 Crayons du monde entier unissez-vous!
• 1987 A quarter of century
• 1988 Hommage à Beuys
• 1993 Faire ça ou peigner la girafe
• 1996 Correspondances
• 1997 Mise en quarantaine
• 2001 Cent / sans aller et retour ou comment s’affranchir avec les gens de lettres / l’être
• 2007 Cent / sans artiste(s), cent / sans adresse(s): l’art c’est l’adresse  (dernier projet postal)

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Links

• http://pagesperso-orange.fr/reine.shad/laszlo.htm (fr)
• http://www.fondationlaposte.org/article.php3?id_article=458 (fr)
• http://www.artistescontemporains.org/fiche_artiste.php?id=951 (fr)

La cosa empezó hace ya unos cuantos años cuando unos napolitanos  comenzaron a diseñar unos sellos absurdos y consiguieron que cartas franqueadas con tales sellos llegaran a su destino. ¿Cómo es posible que un sello con motivos tan subrealistas como conmemorar el centenario de la Mafia, o el “Día de la supresión de derechos del niño”, sea considerado válido por todos los carteros que manejan una carta, desde la recepción en el buzón hasta su entrega? Parece increíble, pero el sobre matasellado con el sello falso garantiza que se realizó el milagro.

Imitadores de los sellos napolitanos han aparecido en varios países por lo que esta falsificación, cachondeo o lo que quiera que sea, ha pasado a denominarse “mail art”. En España el grupo Piretelia,  fusión de piratería y filatelia, se unió a este movimiento y lanza una tras otra una series de sellos con temas tan peregrinos como los siguientes, "Lucha sin cuartel contra el sello falso", , "Jornadas de lesbianismo precoz", "Orgasmo nacional de Loterías", "Educación Transexual" . "Congreso de Obsesos Sexuales", o el "Día del orgullo heterosexual", que ilustra este post, y que viajó en una carta que en 1995 fue depositada en Toledo para ser entregada en Madrid. Y no son los únicos, existe una página que tiene un extenso catálogo de “Sellos de Correos de Curso Ilegal” y nos muestran los sellos y sus éxitos en el engaño a Correos.

Os dejo con almailart  un blog dedicado al mail art y un par de artistas extranjeros que se dedican al Mail Art, Esteve Smith y Michel Hernandez Luna

Otros post de Arte Sano aquí

Leslie Arfin.

Brian Lichtenberg.

Chrissie Miller.

Mark the Cobrasnake.

Man, I miss collecting stickers. Don't you? I miss glitter stickers, puffy stickers, stickers with googly eyes on them, smelly stickers, Lisa Frank stickers, animal stickers, stickers with skulls and skeletons on them, skateboarding stickers, stickers with cartoon characters on them, etc. All of that. I say we bring that back. This is also in part due to the fact that I am undergoing a massive room overhaul at the moment. In order for my pending move come Spring (fingers crossed) I am getting rid of a lot of stuff. And organizing stuff. And consolidating stuff. Which means for example, I just spent all of last weekend, when not at work going thru about 4 years worth of pictures and placing them in actual photo albums.  I currently have 5 unadorned photo albums in dire need of decoration of some sort. This is where you come in.

E-mail me at peterson.jessie@gmail.com, and I'll send you my address and you can send me stickers!

If you want, I'll send you a letter, write a haiku, draw a small picture, etc. Or nothing at all. Your call.

I'm a huge fan of Paul Di Filippo. Not only is a fine writer, but he's a damn nice guy as well.

I've always been impressed with how open and giving he is, and how enthusiastic he is about helping other people in the spec lit community. He always makes time to respond to emails, and is quick to help others when it is needed.

I've been very fortunate to have featured Paul's work here during our "Open Mic" nights, and have been even more fortunate to receive a piece of his amazing mail art recently when he - again out of nothing more than the goodness of his heart - sent me a copy of his seminal collection "Ribofunk," signed no less! I've enclosed pictures of the Di Filippo-ized envelope - and the book itself here.

Paul's new book will be called Cosmocopia. Illustrated by Jim Woodring, this novel - complete with a box and a jigsaw puzzle (!) - will be available from Payseur & Schmidt very soon. He recently completed the following short interview with me, and when you're done reading it, you can had on over to Payseur & Schmidt's site and read an excerpt yourself.

Would you mind introducing yourself to my readers?

Not at all! My name is Paul Di Filippo, aged 53, native Rhode Islander still resident in Providence, author of some 25 books, whose career began either in 1977, 1982, 1985 or 1995, depending on which benchmark one uses. Partnered with Deborah Newton for the past 33 years. Faithful devotee of the cocker spaniel breed.

When did you start writing?

I just realized recently that my first completed story was a piece of fanfic. At around the age of ten or eleven, I laboriously typed out 2 pages of an “original” Man from U.N.C.L.E. story. That item is still extant, buried somewhere in my files, and shall never see the light of day. More professionally, I sold my first story to UnEarth (1977); quit my dayjob to write full time (1982); sold stories two and three to Ed Ferman and Ted Klein (1985); and had my first book published from Four Walls Eight Windows (1995).

How would you describe your work?

I write everything and anything that interests me, hopefully varying my tone and style accordingly while always conveying a uniquely Di Filippoian POV, from hardcore SF to New Weird, from crime novels (with pal Mike Bishop as Philip Lawson) to steampunk. I’m a bemused butterfly that flits all over the literary map.

What are some of your best-known works?

Probably The Steampunk Trilogy and Ribofunk. The latter title is a neologism of my coining, which I’m particularly proud of. I just googled the term, and it stands at 36,600 hits. Not bad, not bad at all…..

Out of all that you've written, what are you most proud of?

When my dissimilar yet somehow equally ambitious novella A Year in the Linear City and my novel A Mouthful of Tongues appeared almost back to back, I felt I had reached a new plateau in my work, and so those two books remain milestones in my mind, if no one else’s.

Have you ever written something you regretted?

Overly harsh and snarky reviews.

Who are your biggest influences?

Too many to name without slighting some. Let’s just say Ballard, Pynchon, Faulkner, Thoreau, Aldiss, Heinlein, Simak, Delany, Nabokov…. I could go on and on!

What do you NOT want to write like? What are your anti-influences?

Myself at my worst and laziest and sloppiest and stupidest. And any other fiction writer who’s full of cliched ideas and stylistically tone-deaf.

What are some of the biggest misconceptions people have about you based solely on your work?

All I do is humor.

What are some of the biggest misconceptions people may have about your work based solely on knowing you?

It’s all easy.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

For a while, after reading James Michener’s The Source, an archaeologist. But soon thereafter, nothing but a writer.

How does your life differ now from it did - say - ten years ago?

No dayjob, less anxiety about “making it,” having realized that by most boring conventional standards of the marketplace and academia and the consumerist sphere, I never will!

Tell us about your most recent work:

My forthcoming book from Payseur & Schmidt, Cosmocopia, is a tribute to the art of my pal Jim Woodring, and to the author we both love, David Lindsay, famed for his A Voyage to Arcturus.

How did you get the idea?

I like being inspired by visual artists, and had long contemplated doing something with Jim.

How long did it take to write the book?

It’s short; about three or four months.

When are you most productive? Are there some kinds of environments that are more productive for you than others?

I like working from mid-morning till no later than 4 PM. Afternoons are for walking and thinking. Nights are for reading.

What about other projects? Do you have anything else out there right now you might like to talk about? What’s your next project?

I need to do my sequel to AYITLC: A Princess of the Linear Jungle. And I’ve got 10,000 words of a novel that stalled out, titled Up Around the Bend, that I want to return to.

Are there any other writers out there you'd like to bring to our attention?

Anybody who loves the work of James Blaylock or early Tim Powers should read Van Reid: http://www.moosepath.com/index.html

Where can we learn more about you?

I have an autobiographical essay in CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, VOLUME 29, published by Gale Research.

Folks might also like to visit my partnered blog WEIRD UNIVERSE at:

http://www.weirduniverse.net/

Where can we buy your stuff?

Almost all my books are still theoretically in print and to be found online at various stores.

]]> http://jerseytjej.wordpress.com/?p=700 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:03:13 +0000 JerseyGirl http://jerseytjej.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/busy-busy-doing-nothing/ This is my last week of vacation from the job, but The Hubbs wants me to work for him and I am reluctant...I am arting up a storm, cleaning and organizing my supplies and basically trying to bring some law and order to the wild wild west that prevails in my half of "The Office" ( I'm really lying, I have 75% of the room but THE HUBBS has a laptop that he is not sharing, so that makes us equal.  The previous mess is described on my flickr feed as rearranging deck chairs on my Titanic  I am sure it is below.  There is a challenge on Scrap your Crap and this weeks challenge was to use beads on your layout...This is my entry...based on a photo that has been on my mind for some time

Maya had this uncanny ability to reflect her emotions like an adult.  My great uncle Charles had just said to The Hubbs " who is this pretty girl here?" when Maya went into diva mode...The Hubbs was trying to "talk her down" but Maya was having NONE of that and refused to hug Uncle for his 96th birthday... The layout is called " Side eye for the Great Uncle Guy"...He has since passed on, but this photo lives forevah!, LOL!!!

Then there is the challenge with Nancy Baumiller at Something to Crow about.  She has started a group for mixed media artists on Flickr.  There is a weekly challenge where she posts pictures of items and you interpret them into what ever is your style...here is my contribution...don't laugh...I live in the third world and Zetti is foreign to all but me and Ihanna, LOL!

...look at this loveliness...

I knew as soon as I saw the mail lady's face who it was from!  Yes, I spared the envelope...I am a lover of mail art and I admire the  creative way that people make their statements by arting up the mail..sigh...look at this!  go on, click it bigger!

Inside, were these lovlies... a print that I had ordered from Sharon's Etsy shop.  I had admired this lady for a long time and I have finally decided that she needed to come to Sweden for a

visit...I was so happy and surprised!  Sharon hosted a napkin swap...you send 5 you receive 5 in return. There are some music and old text pages, too...I thought I had a photo... This was sooo worth waiting for...

Here you'll find books only. Articles and the like are listed on the artists' pages (i.e. Klaus Groh). If you wish to add a book here, let us know.

• Jean-Marc Poinsot: Mail Art: Communication A Distance Concept, Paris 1971 (fr, en).
• Hervé Fischer: Art et Communication Marginale, Paris 1974 (fr, en, de).
• Ulises Carion: From Bookworks to Mail Art, Amsterdam 1978 (en).
• Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet (Hg.): Correspondence Art, San Francisco 1984 (en).
• H.R. Fricker: I am a Networker (sometimes). Mail Art und Tourism im Network der 80er Jahre, St. Gallen 1989 (de, en).
• John Held Jr.: Mail Art. An Annotated Bibliography, London 1991 (en).
• Geza Perneczky: The Magazine Network, Köln 1993 (en).
• Friedrich Winnes und Lutz Wohlrab (Hg.): Mail Art Szene DDR 1975 - 1990, Berlin 1994 (de).
• Karl Kronig u.a.: Mail Art. Netzwerk der Künstler, Bern 1994 (de, fr).
• Chuck Welch (Hg.): Eternal Network. A Mail Art Anthology, University of Calgary 1995 (en).
• Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (Hg.): Mail Art - Osteuropa im internationalen Netzwerk, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Berlin 1996 (de, en).
• Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (Hg.): Mail Art - Osteuropa im internationalen Netzwerk. Drei Tage rund um alternative Kommunikation (Kongress-Dokumentation), Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Berlin 1997 (de, en).
• Vittore Baroni: Arte Postale - Guida al Network della Corrispondenza Creativa, Bertiolo (Italien) 1997 (it).
• Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris (Hg.): Ray Johnson – How Sad I am Today…, University of British Coloumbia, Vancouver 1999 (en).
• Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Hg.): Art a la carte. Internationale Künstlerpostkarten seit den 60er Jahren, Bremen 2003 (de).
• Kornelia Röder: Topologie und Funktionsweise des Netzwerkes der Mail Art, Bremen 2008 (de, en summary).
• wird erweitert…/to be continued…

Most of my work is either costume related, in which case it goes into the costume stock of whatever theatre I was working for, or mail art, in which case I cover it with stamps and ship it far away never to be seen again. So I don't physically have any of my old things to go back and take photos of. I kind of love the idea of making things and then never seeing them again. It's romantic in a very ME way.

Anyway, this is a mail art piece entitled "Some Kind of Weathervane" I don't intend to send it til like january. I'm avoiding showing the writing in it, at least not clearly, but it is about using found objects as charms and for divination. I'm really into magic right now, but only the kind that I make up myself.

David Dellafiora wurde 1963 in London geboren. Er lebt in Australien. Seine künstlerische Praxis umfasst eine weite Reihe an Ausdrucksformen, dazu gehören Installationen, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, künstlerische Buchgestaltung sowie die Koordination der Correspondence art-Gruppe Field Study, die Mitglieder in der ganzen Welt hat. Durch Field Study regte er eine Reihe laufender Publikationen an, so The Field Report, WIPE und ReSite. Er verbindet seine künstlerische Arbeit auch mit dem Unterrichten, zur Zeit unterrichtet er Kunst in einem Jugendprogramm, Youth X-Press, und koordiniert die Community arts-Galerie HUB Gallery.
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Dellafiora was born in London in 1963. Today he lives in Australia. His practise takes a variety of forms including installation, public art, and artist bookwork as well as coordinating the correspondence art group Field Study that has members all round the world. Through Field Study he instigateted a number of ongoing publications, The Field Report, WIPE and ReSite. He links his art practice with teaching, currently he is teaching arts at a youth program, Youth X-Press, and is coordinating a community arts gallery called HUB Gallery.

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John M. Bennett wurde 1942 in Chicago geboren. Er studierte Englisch und Spanisch an der Washington University in St. Louis mit Abschluss als Magister 1966. Das Studium der lateinamerikanischen Literatur schloss er 1970 als PhD in Los Angeles, Californien ab. Von 1969 bis 1976 arbeitete er als Assistant-Professor für Spanisch an der Ohio State University.
Am Zentralen Psychiatrischen Krankenhaus von Ohio war er von 1979 bis 1986 als Poesie-Therapeut tätig. Ein entsprechendes Zertifikat der National Association for Poetry Therapy erhielt er 1985.
Von 1975 bis 2005 war er Herausgeber der Zeitschrift für Visuelle Poesie Lost and Found Times.
Seit den späten 1970er Jahren arbeitet John M. Bennett mit dem Soundpoeten und Performer Rod Summers zusammen.
Von 1998 bis heute ist er als Kurator der Avant Writing Collection, der William Burroughs Collection, und der Cervantes Collection an den Bibliotheken der Ohio State University tätig.
Er ist weiterhin als Visueller Poet, Autor experimenteller Texte und als Mailartist aktiv.
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Bennett was born in Chicago in 1942. He studied English and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis with an MA in 1966. He ended his studies of Latin American Literature as PhD in 1970 in Los Angeles, California. From 1969 to 1976 he worked as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University.
He was Volunteer Poetry Therapist at Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital form 1979 to 1986. He received a certification for that in 1985 of the National Association for Poetry Therapy.
From 1975 to 2005 he had been editor of the magazine for visual poetry called Lost and Found Times.
Since the late 1970's Bennett has been working with the sound poet and performer Rod Summers.
From 1998 on until today he has been curator of the Avant Writing Collection, the William Burroughs Collection and the Cervantes Collection at the Library of Ohio State University.
He is still active as visual poet, author of experimental texts and Mail Artist.

Ausgewählte Arbeiten/selected works

Literatur (Auswahl)/literature (selection)

• Bennett, John M.: "Autobiography", in: CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES, 
Vol. 25 Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.

Links

• http://www.johnmbennett.net/

Edgardo Antonio Vigo wurde am 28. Dezember 1928 in La Plata, in der Provinz Buenos Aires in Argentinien geboren. Anfang der 1950er Jahre absolvierte er die Hochschule der Bildenden Künste an der Nationalen Universität von La Plata. Im Jahre 1953 reiste er mit einen Stipendium nach Frankreich, wo er Kontakt mit der internationalen Kunstszene bekam. Im Jahr 1961 gründete er die Publikation "Diagonal Zero", womit er seinen Austausch innerhalb der Bewegung der Mail Art vorbereitete. Im Jahr 1969 organisierte er die "Internationale Ausstellung der Neuen Poesie" am renommierten Institut Di Tella in Buenos Aires. Ab 1976 bekämpfte er die Militärdiktatur in seinem Land mit den Mitteln der Kunst und der Poesie.
Er starb am 4. November 1997 in seiner Heimatstadt La Plata.
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Vigo was born Decembre, 28th 1928 in La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the beginning of the 1950's he went to the High School of Fine Arts at the University of La Plata. In 1953 he had a scholarship in France, where got into contact with the international art scene. In 1961 he founded the "Diagonal Zero" publications, he therewith prepared his exchange within the Mail Art movement. In 1969 he organised the "International Exhibition of New Poetry" at the renowned Institut Di Tella in Buenos Aires. From 1976 on he fought against the military regime in his country with means of art and poetry.
He November, 4th 1997 in his hometown La Plata.

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• http://www.eavigo.com.ar/

Manfred Vänci Stirnemann wurde 1951 in der Schweiz geboren. Seit 1983 beschäftigt er sich mit Copy Art und seit 1984 mit Mail Art. Seit 1986 gehört er zu den Nomaden, einer internationalen Performergruppe um Jürgen O. Olbrich. Er ist auch als freier Journalist tätig und lebt in Zürich.
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Stirnemann was born in Suisse in 1951. Since 1983 he has been doing copy art and started doing Mail Art in 1984. Since 1986 he has been part of the Nomads, an international group of performers around Jürgen O. Olbrich. He even works as journalist and lives in Zurich.

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• documenta 8: city souvenir, Kassel 1987.
• Stirnemann, M. Vänci: „Mail Art – das Kunstspiel mit der Post“. In: Winnes, Friedrich/Wohlrab, Lutz (Hg.): Mail Art Szene DDR 1975 – 1990, S. 9 – 12.
• Kronig, Karl u.a.: Mail Art. Netzwerk der Künstler, Bern 1994.
• Gegenfluss, fünf Schweizer Mailartisten, Outpress 1995.

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Ruth Wolf wurde 1932 in Wurzen geboren. Von 1947 bis 50 machte sie eine Lehre als Industriekaufmann. 1950 zog sie nach Berlin und studierte ab 1951 an der Arbeiter- und Bauern-Fakultät, danach studierte sie ein Jahr lang Philosophie. 1954 lernte sie Robert Rehfeldt kennen, der sie ein Jahr später heiratete. Sie fand eine Tätigkeit in der Ausstellungsabteilung der Akademie der Künste und zeichnete nebenher. Anfang der 1970er Jahre begann sie ihre typischen Schreibmaschinengrafiken (Typewritings) zu entwickeln und sich an der Mail Art ihres Mannes zu beteiligen. 1978 wurde sie in den Verband bildender Künstler der DDR aufgenommen.
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Ruth Wolf was born in 1932 in Wurzen. From 1947 to 1950 she did an apprenticeship as industrial clerk. In 1950 she moved to Berlin and studied at the workers'- and farmers' faculty in 1951, later she studied philosophy for a year. In 1954 she got to know Robert Rehfeldt, who she married a year later. She found a job in the department for exhibitions of the Academy of Arts and did drawings in her spare time. In the beginning of the 1970's she started to develop her typical type writer graphics (Typewritings) and participated in the Mail Art projects of her husband. She became member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR in 1978.

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• Letzte Mail Art Aktion aus der DDR (1990)

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• Gespräch. In: “Mail Art Osteuropa - im internationalen Netzwerk”, Staatliches Museum Schwerin 1996 (Katalog), S. 125 – 145 (de, en).
• Talkrunde: „Lebt die Mail Art heute noch?“ In : “Mail Art Osteuropa - im internationalen Netzwerk”, Staatliches Museum Schwerin 1997 (Kongressdokumentation), S. 79 – 99 (de, en).

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