MAIL ART NEWS

  incoming from Mark Johnson, a reproduction from The Science Fair Story , 1979 ✉         🖼          🖊                 📰     We may indeed, some day, have some kind of satellite "mail" and maybe some kind of electronic mail that travels over a maze of wires, but until that day comes, I'm sticking with good old-fashioned paper mail. Of course, there's also a mail network that exists within each life form, with messages traveling in different directions, at various speeds in the mind / body. Indeed, part of communicating is to get a better picture of the trajectories of human energies, for the benefit of one or more of the parties involved.  In April 2023, I was asking on Faceboo k " How many different eyes do you need to see one person?" By that, I was wondering how to see all the parts of a person, all of the facets. The next step in the development of that idea is to as...

postcards for mailing, T. Brown, 4-22-2023 Things go round on the internet. Around 2004 or 2005, in an online art group called the World Artist Network on Myspace, we somehow got to talking about memetics. The exponential growth of online memes began shortly thereafter. And then somewhere around 2011, I learned of the term "noosphere " which is the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity in regard to its influence on the biosphere . And then I heard nothing more about in my own little corner of the world until April 20, 2023, when it showed up along with a new term -- nooscope, in an article titled  Earth’s Ultimate War: A Battle to Control the Noosphere. Looking further into the topic, I see articles from 2016 talking about this nooscope, a device for monitoring the noosphere. Some of the articles in the corporate media outlets are predictably dismissive, yet other sites approach it with genuine interest. The website  https://nooscope.ai/ discusses the topic from ...

The last time I saw ChatGPT, Carl Chew was using it to learn more about himself . This time, I'm asking it a series of questions about mail art.  Enjoy! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TB: Hi and thank you for agreeing to this interview. ChatGPT: Hello! It's my pleasure to be here. How can I assist you today? TB: I would like you to tell me about mail art. ChatGPT: Mail art is a form of art that involves sending unique and creative pieces of art through the postal service. It emerged in the mid-20th century and gained popularity during the 1960s and 1970s. The idea behind mail art is to create an artwork that can be sent through the postal service, either as a postcard, letter, or package. These artworks can be made from a wide variety of materials, such as paper, fabric, or even found objects, and can be decorated with drawings, collages, stamps, or any other form of creative expression. Mail art is often associated with the idea of a "network" of artists, who ...