MAIL ART NEWS

   Prepress  Stream of conscience word salad from looking at things on the desk & screen, then highlighted a word per line, which turned into a not-so-coded message.  TB: Hi Nonlocal Variable. How did you get into mail art? And your name indicates that you're into programming. To what extent does your interest in technology influence your art?  NV: I’m a child of the 60s and tend towards the experimentaI and fringe culture. I found mail art through music. I love avant-garde music and writing – John Cage, LaMonte Young, etc., and corresponded directly with musicians. I learned about Fluxus, Ray Johnson and others. Someone sent me a card that said “Post Card Art,” and before I knew it, I was stuck in.  Nonlocal Variable is a quantum mechanics term as well as a coding term. Einstein discovered the idea of “spooky action at a distance,” where 2 particles can communicate simultaneously. Bell’s Theorem solved the math about this by plugging in a “nonlocal var...

This may be the first post or one of the very first posts on the internet about artificial intelligence and mail art. Please, please, please send me information about any other examples where AI has been employed in the field of mail art. The first example comes from Adam R.'s Instagram (Dec 04, 2022). And this is to my knowledge the first instance where AI generated images were used to create rubber stamps. I then included the ELSTLAN FONNTY rubber stamp on several outgoing pieces. Included is one example below with color pencil linework.  The second example by Nonlocal Variable was found on Pam's Mail Art Blog  in April 2023 with a note that the underlying images were made by Dall-E 2 AI.  ********************************************************************************** Update from Adam R. after publishing (4/5/2023): " Thanks for sharing! I am not 100% certain I was the first, I know Carl Chew was using AI to make Artistamps right around the same time. I know he has...