THE EMMA EMAILART DIRECTORY

In the spring of 1991 Chuck Welch circulated the first emailart listings of mail artists online to electronic journals like "Postmodern Culture" and to internet newsgroups like Artcom, RecArts.Fine, and the Well. The lists were also distributed to 24 major sites in the 1991 International Reflux Project, a project under the direction of Dr. Artur Matuck at Carnegie Mellon University. The original listing of twenty-four emailartists was limited largely to mail artists with BBS' and those few who had access to the internet. The first online mail artists such as Fred Truck, Anna Couey, George Brett, Carl Eugene Loffler, Judy Malloy, and a few others were and are pioneering members of the telematic arts community. Most of the early online mail artists were affiliated in some capacity with educational institutions which allowed these artists inexpensive, direct access to the global internet.

In a period of seven years the original Networker Telenetlink emailart list list has grown to the present size here. Much of the growth resulted when all of the commercial online networks such as Compuserve, Genie, America Online, Prodigy, and others finally opened a gateway ramp to internet in 1994. The Networker Telenetlink continues to work tirelessly to provide commercial online networks access to emailart listings and to expand the existing community. Emailartists who have been especially helpful in widening the dissemination of the Emailart Directory and Networker Telenetlink Project are Honoria, Pete Fischer, and Reed Altemus. The Electronic Museum of Mail Art is a first concentrated effort to create a emailart home page totally devoted to the exploration of emailart and snailmail art and where these two communication forms intersect.

There will always be a question as to what constitutes online or offline mail art activity since mail art is an umbrella network covering numerous communication forms from rubberstamp art to correspondence art and networking. While surfing America Online for mail art interactivity I found subject listings for MailArt, Mail Art, Art Stamp, Postal Art, Postal Network, and Correspondence Art. Among these listings the America Online rubberstamp community is by far the largest core group (about 200 individuals) whose activities, while not always focused on the role of rubberstamping in mail art, are still a group that uses the mailstream as a network community.

The point of what constitutes mail art online is open to aesthetic development in this early stage of global telecommunication via internet. In a general context mail art is about community building, collaboration, and democratic exchange of concepts. The medium of exchange in mail art is the post, but the post or internet will never be the core aesthetc interpretation of emailart. The message will always be the medium of mail art/emailart and the message is THE MESSENGER. This list is in flux and to participate one has only to mail one's name and email address. Whether you are a bona fide mail artist in a traditional "snailmail" context or not is immaterial here.

Emailart lists are constantly in flux. In reviewing two other separate lists of mail artists online I found over thirty errors. Either these individuals were no longer online or their addresses were incorrect. Please inform me of any incorrect listings so this Emailart Directory can be kept accurate and current. Also, we invite you to distribute this list to interested network friends. Send any new emailart addresses and your queries to [email protected].

EMMA's EMAILART DIRECTORY - revised last: 07-19-97 Please circulate this emailart listing but always list your source for this information as: From the Emailart Directory, c/o Crackerjack Kid, EMMA

Allison, Marjorie: [email protected] Anby Boy: [email protected] Artoposto: [email protected] Artsnet: [email protected] Ascott, Roy: [email protected] Ashworth, Robert: [email protected] Ashworth, Robert: http://pacificrim.net/~robert/ashworth.html Avery, David: [email protected] Bagato, Jeff: [email protected] Banco de Ideas: [email protected] Beams, Mary: [email protected] Bell, Lillian: [email protected] Bennett, John: [email protected] Blackburn, Tim alias Zetetics: [email protected] Bleus, Guy: [email protected] Blind Robin: [email protected] Block, Mark, a.k.a. PAN: [email protected] Board, Mykel: [email protected] Bondi, J.: [email protected] Breland, Bruce (DAX Group): [email protected] Brett, George: [email protected], or [email protected] Brooks, Steven: [email protected] Brown, Bob: [email protected] Bukoff, Allen: [email protected] Bunting, Heath: [email protected] Burning Press: [email protected] Burr, Ronald: [email protected] Campbell, Kim: [email protected] Cardell, Mikael: [email protected] Carla Cryptic: [email protected] Cohen, Joel (The Stickerdude) a.k.a. Ragged Edge Press: [email protected] Cole, David: [email protected] Couey, Anna: [email protected] Crackerjack Kid, ed. "Netshaker Online": [email protected] Cramer, Florian: [email protected] Crash Network: [email protected] Daniel Plunkett, ed. of "ND Magazine": [email protected] Darren: [email protected] DeVallance, Brendan: [email protected] Devoluy, Robert: [email protected] DeMarco, Joe: [email protected] Disembodied Art Gallery, a.k.a. Keith DeMendonca: [email protected] Dodge, Chris: [email protected] Donfrancesco, Giorgio: [email protected] Drage, Tim: [email protected] Dragonfly Dream: [email protected] Drake, Luigi Bob: [email protected] Eastman, Carol: [email protected] Ewing, Bob: [email protected] FaGaGaGa a.k.a. Mark Corroto: [email protected] Federico: [email protected] Felter, James Warren: [email protected] Ficus Strangulensis: [email protected] Fischer, Pete: [email protected] Frank, Joachim: [email protected] Francois, Charles: [email protected] Gale, Bob: [email protected] Golchert, Rainer: [email protected] Gomez-Perales, Juan L.: [email protected] Green Brigades: [email protected] Grist On-Line, John Fowler, editor: http://www.phantom.com/~grist Grush, Byron: [email protected] (See also Byron's website) Gunderson, Wendy: [email protected] Halushka, Rhonda.: [email protected], or [email protected] Hopkins, John: [email protected] Honoria: [email protected] Humphrey, Glen: [email protected] Hunter, Conrad: [email protected] Iolzner, Dan: [email protected] Iverson, Lisa: [email protected] Janssen, Ruud: [email protected] John L.: [email protected] Kac, Edouardo: [email protected] Keys, Sarah: [email protected] Labovitz, John: [email protected] Lara, Mario: [email protected] Lehmus, Jukka: [email protected] Leo Duh Fitchi a.k.a. Smallville Funny Farm: [email protected] Leslie, Scott: [email protected] Leslie What: [email protected] Loeffler, Carl Eugene: [email protected] Lukanuski, Mary: [email protected] Malloy, Judy: [email protected] Ma Vinci: [email protected] Metcalf, Dick: [email protected] Michal, Suran: [email protected] Miller, Ken: [email protected] Milliken, Uncle Don: [email protected] MJHSDR: [email protected] Morse, Deana: [email protected] Muns, Raleigh Pope: [email protected] Nte, Sol Eyoka: [email protected] Owens, Ashley Parker: [email protected] Padilla, Gerardo: [email protected] Padin, Clemente: (temporary email address) [email protected] Panman a.k.a. Mark Bloch : [email protected] Parker, Richard: [email protected] Pas de Chance: [email protected] Pattillo, Gary: (Zine Network Exchange) [email protected] Paulussen, Hans: [email protected] Pearson, Robert: [email protected] Permeable Press: [email protected] Plunkett, Daniel: [email protected] Pore, Jerod: [email protected] ("FactSheet Five Electric") Porter, C.T.: [email protected] Powell, Alan: [email protected] Prophet: [email protected] Purps: [email protected] Rau, Michelle: [email protected] Raymond: [email protected] Reiber, Bettina: [email protected] Reverend Tin-Ear: [email protected] Richards, Kymberleigh: [email protected] Ricker, David: [email protected] Rininger, John: [email protected] Rolik, Chris: [email protected] Rose, Mark: [email protected] Rosenblatt, Margie: [email protected] Rosenblatt, Shulamis: [email protected] Rutkovsky, Paul: [email protected] Sagall, Richard: [email protected] Sanders, Karen: [email protected] Schloss, Arleen: [email protected] Schulz, Duane, a.k.a. Nonlocal Variable: [email protected] Scott, Vic: [email protected] Sherarts, LaVona, a.k.a. Dr. Surearts: [email protected] Sheets, Lisa: [email protected] Sicard, Andrew L. a.k.a. Andy Boy: [email protected] Siemens, A: [email protected] Snell, Maxi: [email protected] Smith, Chris: [email protected] Sousa, Pere: [email protected] Spector, Mark: [email protected] Speranza, Carolyn: [email protected] Stampo: [email protected] Stampophyl: [email protected] Stewart, Michael: [email protected] Stone, Carl: [email protected] Strauss, Lee: [email protected] Street Beat Quarterly: (Jay E. Katz) [email protected] Summers, "Rev." Paul: [email protected] Tisma, Andrej: [email protected] deVallance, Brendon: [email protected] Van Baerle, Susan: [email protected] Van Nouhuys, Caius: [email protected] Voss, Eric: [email protected] Why Gigi: [email protected] Wilbur, Shawn a.k.a. "bookish": [email protected] Wood, Reed: [email protected] Yahale Yadede: [email protected] Yepiz, Gerardo: [email protected]

WORLD WIDE WEB SITES RELATED TO MAIL ART

A 1993 Mail Art Interview with Karen Elliott, Honoria, and Crackerjack Kid

Art Strike 1990-1993: "What Means This 'Art Strike': Social Movement and/or 'Bad Idea'?" text by Shawn Wilbur Dad@: http://www.kaapeli.fi/~best/dada1.html Dada: Robert Dada's Anti-Art-Productions Fluxus Online: http://anansi.panix.com/fluxus/FluxusText.html The Fluxus Indian Museum (FIM) It's "more fun than regular art and more art than regular fun" says "curator" Allen Bukoff Mail Art History: Mailed Art 94, Uppsala Mail Art Theory: meticulously laid out by archivist and networker Guy Bleus Neoism: The Seven by Nine Squares Rubberstamps: Kipper's Mail Art Gallery Surrealism Server: http//pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/surrealism.html Dudley Finds and the Fat City School of Finds Art: http://www.echonyc.com/~hwdarch John Hopkin's Networking Links: http://rvik.ismennt.is/~hopkins/networking.html Futurism: Joe De Marco and Bill Gaglione; http://pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/futurism/FUT-MENU.html Mark Bloch's new website (An illustrated biography of Ray Johnson) http://www.echonyc.com/~panman Visit the Dragon Fly home page with links to her Artistamp Page and Mail Art Call page Byron Grush's website with emailart postcards: http://laotzu.art.niu.edu/~byron/grush.html Europe's first WWW Mail Art Gallery by SZtuka Fabryka (Belgian website): http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/kamers/sztuka/index.html KaMERS met Zicht-Amphion: A New Belgian website constructed by Wouter Vandenbroucke Visit Mail Art Gallery and Museum (MAGAM), Italy's first mail art website Another Italian mail art website has been created by Lia Garavini & Anna Boschi Lia & Anna have created a site for viewing their Prehistory Project Gerardo Yepiz Mail Art Homepage moved January 1996 from http://www.cicese.mx/~gyepiz/mailart.html to this new hotlink: http://www.cicese.mx/~gyepiz/mailart.html New Artistamp Gallery created by Canadian pioneer of artistamp genre James Warren Felter. See Jas Cyberspace Museum at http://www.faximum.com/jas Artistamp gallery by Canadian artist Tom S. Thomas Visit the Mail Art Networker Mario Lara and his Mail-Art Postcard Rack Glen Humphrey has a mail art page at his Illumination Gallery website Mail Artist Pas de Chance's website Zines: John Labovitz's E-Zine-List "Some Zines: Alternative & Underground Artists' & Eccentric Magazines & Micropresses" An Exhibition of Zines at the Boise State University Student Art Gallery Zines: Gonzo's EZINE webpage links you to over 200 ezines Discover Luther Blissett the urban legend and cult figure Explore Joel Cohen's mail art page, The Sticker Dude Check out the legendary geORge Brett's mail art webpage Dutch mail artist Ruud Janssen has now embraced the internet with his new webpage devoted to "emailart"

EMAILART EXHIBITION NOTICE:

Send a can via snailmail to Francis Fan Mail, c/o Edition Phi, PO Box 66, L-6401 Echternach, Luxembourg. List of all participants & a gallery will be on the Francis Fan Mail website

Emailart Directory listings were last revised: July 19, 1997

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