Notes

Before we were to begin the brief Nigel put together a presentation to sum up the Mail art concept which we all gathered in the lecture theatre to view. I was looking forward to finding out more in depth about the concept and design features within Mail art. Below are some of the notes I took down during the presentation:

1950's in America (late 50's) 

Ray Johnson - Founder

Bypass the american system

Produce works of art on a free basis

They were like artist pen-friends

Mash potatoes art/posters were all mashed until you felt it was done

Quirky ideas

fluxous movement 

Yoko Omo touched on it

The network grew in the 60's-70's but more in the 70's

Picture notes

Singing postman from Northfleet

Herbert Malling- Vienna - Collage and drawings

Michael Lee - Waste Paper LTD

Concrete poetry - old archive of pictures

(walking downstairs to find art on your doormat and not just in galleries)

ZERO - can be found in our college library

Complaints letters - some even made up complaints to see what reply would be

No address just circle place on a map and they amazingly received it

POST YOURSELF - Henry Tuner 1st to post himself he was escorted 

Alison Wilson forged stamps for a collector and got sent to prison

Its illegal to deface a stamp (due to the queens face)

MARK PORSON- http://www.mpawson.demon.co.uk/

ROBIN CROZIER