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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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10:52 pm - International Media Art Project “GAGARIN” (Международный медиа-арт-проект «ГАГАРИН»)
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Международный медиа-арт-проект «ГАГАРИН»
(50-летию первого полета человека в космос посвящается)
Первый космонавт мира Юрий Гагарин признан в России главным кумиром ХХ века. Его образ - позитивный символ эпохи тотальных войн и политических конфликтов. Ему посвящаются стихи и песни, его именем названы города, улицы и площади, учебные заведения и молодежные организации. Он герой фольклора. Не менее актуален Гагарин и в современном искусстве. Первопроходец вселенной, пионер космоса, по сути - человек идущий в авангарде событий. Мы предлагаем художникам современными, актуальными средствами реализовать тему первого покорения космоса.
Инициатор проекта - Смоленская областная газета «Рабочий путь». При поддержке арт-галереи «40 квадратов».
Тема: ГАГАРИН
Форма и техника: любые (видео-арт, фото, паблик-арт, стрит-арт, перформанс, инсталляция, мэйл-арт, визуальная поэзия, компьютерная графика, бук-арт, живопись, коллаж и др.)
Максимальный формат присылаемых по почте работ - A3.
Работы принимаются как по обычной, так и по электронной почте (формат jpg, 300 dpi).
Принимаются ссылки для скачивания видеофайлов c файлообменников (формат dvd, avi)
Работы присылать на адрес:
Россия, 214000, г.Смоленск, ул.Дзержинского, 17, 3-й этаж, редакция газеты «Рабочий путь».
e-mail: web@rabochy-put.ru
Дедлайн – 1 марта 2011 года
Документации проекта и работы по мере поступления будут размещаться на страницах и сайте газеты «Рабочий путь» - www.rabochy-put.ru/gagarin.html
Присланные работы не возвращаются.
Выставка будет проходить на родине Юрия Гагарина в городе Смоленске и в городах Смоленской области в апреле-мае 2011 года (открытие выставки планируется 12 апреля 2011 года – в День космонавтики).
Предполагается выпуск каталога.
Кураторы проекта:
Эдуард Кулемин e-mail: klmn2002@pisem.net
Дмитрий Зимин e-mail: poez@yandex.ru
GAGARIN
Theme: Astronaut Yuri Gagarin flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. He orbited the Earth once before returning for a safe landing in the Soviet Union roughly 90 minutes later. The 1961 flight made him an international hero and one of the symbols of the modern art: the pioneer of space is in the avant-guard events. We are offering contemporary artists the chance to interpret the theme of the first conquest of space. Send your mail art on the Yuri Gagarin.
The initiator of the project - Smolensk regional newspaper «Rabochy put» and art gallery «40 kvadratov».
Technique: free
Format (max) – A3
no return, no fee, no selection, no jury
Please include name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if one exists.
You can send your work by mail or e-mail (jpg, 300 dpi). We also accept links for downloading video files (dvd, avi).
Exhibition: The exhibition will take place in the homeland of Yuri Gagarin Smolensk and in the other towns of Smolensk Region in April-May, 2011. The opening is planned on the 12th April, 2011 - in The Day of Astronautics.
Documentation: We`ll publish your works in our newspaper, on our web-site: www.rabochy-put.ru/gagarin.html
and in the catalogue.
Info: www.rabochy-put.ru/gagarin.html
Deadline: March, 1st, 2011
E-mail: web@rabochy-put.ru.
Rabochy put,
Dzerzhinskogo, 17,
Smolensk 214000,
Russia.
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| Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
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7:56 pm - What do you do with all of your mail??
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I have been actively involved with mail art for at least the last 10 years - lots of my received mail art is displayed on a bulletin board in my studio, but many pieces of mail have ended up in boxes as i move from place to place.
I'm ready to move again, and am shocked at how much mail art I have. boxes and boxes - in fact a whole closet full of boxes of mail art!
I'm torn on what to do with it - I have such an attachment to it, but I am ready to live as simplistic as possible - which means getting rid of STUFF.
What do you all do with your received mail art??
xoxo,
s♥ma!
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| Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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4:31 pm - Goddess Mail art from Samantha Bragg
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| Friday, February 5th, 2010
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10:56 pm
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11:18 am
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Just thought I would share. You can preorder the most awesome CrapHound. It's very useful for collage art, zines, rubber stamping, and general craftiness. I hope this is okay to post. CrapHound is a fundraiser to keep our local independent zine/comic/book store here in Portland, OR open. This zine is really awesome and I've used previous issues for mail art ALOT.
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| Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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11:31 pm
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i am in need of help
i am looking for a way to transfer a photo (photocopy) to fabric
the fabric is a kind of thin smooth lining and i do not want it to alter the thickness/stiffness of the fabric
the fabric is not going to be used as clothing or anything like that
it is for a flag type project
so i can use some sort of chemical
the size of the image is roughly 5x7" perhaps a bit larger (6x9"?)
if i had my old photocopier running i would just run it through that
but i am out of toner, boo.
i am not experienced in photo transfers
(i am posting this to a few places)
any ideas?
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| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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8:29 pm - Star.
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| Monday, December 21st, 2009
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7:53 am - THE MAN FROM THE GALLANT CENTURY
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| Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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7:20 pm
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| Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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2:11 pm - Nicolai Shmatko has presented his new sculpture "Ukrainian Aurora" - Yulia Timoshenko
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 Nicolai Shmatko has presented his new sculpture "Ukrainian Aurora" and a new sculpture group "Christ's Appearance to the Apostles". It has taken 15 years for him to create the project with the Twelve Apostles. In his sculptures Nicolai Shmatko decided to deviate from the Bible apostles known to us. "In this sculpture there are our contemporaries, people who live near us. Only Jesus Christ is an imaginary person as nobody can pretend to be like him. We can also see Peter, his favourite disciple, doubting Thomas and Judas. Among the known Bible persons I have embodied myself and my sons"- Nicolai Shmatko retells.
look a photo
http://www.kingofmarble-shmatko.com/engver/p1_project_en.html The preliminary cost of this sculpture is 1.5 mln. Euro. The other sculpture of the Nicolai Shmatko "Ukrainian Aurora" has taken him half a year. He retells about it, "Aurora is a morning star which lights up the road of travelers and wayfarers. I decided to accent attention on this and tried to find a woman who can personify national pathos but I could not for a long time. And finally I found national Ukrainian colouring in Julia Timoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine".
look a photo
http://www.kingofmarble-shmatko.com/engver/p4g1f.html Nicolai Shmatko estimates this sculpture in 500 thousand Euro. The sculptor noted that he is a non-party man and has not any political sympathies to Julia Timoshenko but her image helped him to create our contemporary Aurora.
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| Monday, September 7th, 2009
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8:23 pm - A new site for sending things through the mail!
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insane_jenn
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A new site for sending/receiving mail!
Based off the idea of the now defunct postcardx.net
Feel free to join and set up your thread under "send me something!"
send postcards, mail art, ATCs, letters, etc!
http://sendthingsto.us
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| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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5:04 pm - 67 000 Евро ($106,000) за марку
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67 000 Евро - Заплатил коллекционер за редкую марку.
Эта марка, на которой Одри Хепберн изображена курящей, была выпущена в 2001 году по заказу правительства Германии.
Серия, вышедшая 14-миллионным тиражом, Однако вскоре после того, как почтовые марки были напечатаны, сын Хепберн Шон Феррер заявил,
что тираж должен быть уничтожен. Недовольство Феррера вызвало то, что для оформления марки было использовано знаменитое фото Хепберн с мундштуком.
По мнению сына актрисы, многие могли бы счесть этот портрет пропагандой курения. - пишет http://www.lenta.ru/news/2009/05/25/audrey/
http://home.suddenlink.net/news/read.php?id=17010106&ps=1003
Англоязычные источники говорят, что сын просто из-за мундштука отказался предоставить авторское право на фотографию.
Кстати в оригинальной фотографии у неё во рту не мундштук, а солнце защитные очки и развёрнута она в другую сторону.
Вобщем все марки уничтожили, однако говорят что 30 марок успели умыкнуть. Пока известно 5 копий.
Вчера в Германии прошли торги на которых марка была продана за 53,500 Евро, но с коммисией и прочими надбавками общая стоимость составила 67000.
Нормально так....за марочку. :)
Моя рефлексия по этому поводу вылилась в небольшую серию арт-марок посвящённых этому событию.
( Посмотреть в полный размер, 165.92 КБ, 993x813Collapse )
Вообще Одри Хепберн любила фотографироваться с мундштуком как я погляжу
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| Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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8:26 am - MailArt Austria is online now
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| Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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12:16 pm - Mail-art call "Ticket to Jerusalem"
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Deadline: Oct 1st, 2009
Create artwork that represents your idea for an ideal airplane ticket to Jerusalem. Collage, drawing or any other media, preferably without use of computer. Size of the card should be 8x3". Final artwork might resemble a boarding pass, but doesn't have to. Put a stamp on it and mail it, no envelopes. <a href="http://www.tickettojerusalem.com">See project website for more detailed specs</a>.
All works will be featured online, best entries will be exhibited internationally and featured in a book "Ticket To Jerusalem" that will be published at the end of 2009. Every person, whose artwork is featured in the book will get a free copy.
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| Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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8:52 pm - Know any queer rural zines? x-post (if this doesn't belong/breaks rules, sorry; tell me&I'll delete)
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| Friday, October 10th, 2008
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10:45 am - richmond zinefest this saturday!!!!! xposted
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When:
Saturday Oct 11, 2008
at 11:00 AM
Where:
Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Ave.
Richmond, Virginia|47 23220
United States
View Map
The 2008 Richmond Zine Fest will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2008, from 11am to 5pm at the Gay Community Center of Richmond, at 1407 Sherwood Ave. FREE!!
Spread The Word!!
We will have approximately 40 zine tablers, and 8 readings/workshops.
http://www.richmondzinefest.org
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| Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
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8:13 pm - collaborative visual diary - OhMi
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for several months now, an artist friend and i have been exchanging 2 sketchbooks. once a month, usually near the beginning or middle of the month, we pop these journals into priority mail boxes and ship them to each other. we are both working artists. maralena favors acrylic painting, and i generally use watercolor. we both draw and often use stamps of some kind or another. there is also some stencil work in the journals.
images below are taken from both of the journals, one will eventually return home to her, and one to me. there are no rules, and each is allowed to do anything--write, paint over, etc on any other page. what you see becomes a layered non-linear journal of our techniques, processes, and thoughts, as well as play off of each other's work.
we have a blog of these books, showing work in progress in both journals. the last time we swapped was july 25. below are images from various stages in the work.
      
more & larger imgs @ traveling sketchbooks blog.
collaborative traveling visual diary by:  nicci (Ohio) & mcdc3s (Michigan).
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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11:17 pm - Mail Art Invitation
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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10:07 am - Art from Women of Afgahanistan and Women's Caucus for Art
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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6:45 pm - Mail Art Archives
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Dear S,
Thanks for your letter about your mail art collection blues.
Chuck and David did contact me about David’s archive before he died. Then an archivist working with David also contacted me.
I do not have any personal information about collecting, donating, or securing mail art archives, although I think Chuck Welch thinks I do. When I was doing my doctoral research on mail art one of my main findings was that mail artists of a certain age were very concerned about the safety of their archives and wanted to find them a home in an institution.
Here is what I learned and it may be helpful to you.
John Held Jr. a professional librarian with a well-organized archive has sold parts of it to various institutions such as the Smithsonian National Archives and the Getty. John has received a lot of flack for selling mail art, but in fact, that’s a way to get a large institution interested. If you are giving away an archive then it has no actual value to the acquiring organization such as university, library or museum.
Judith Hoffberg also a professional librarian donated her archive of artists’ books to her university library.
I would start by talking to these two mail artists about their archives and how to get yours secured into an institution. Then publish how you did it on the web at mailartist.com. Send your solution to me and I will post it there.
Another avenue is to contact a school of information (formerly called schools of library science) at a university. Offer your archive as a capstone project and let students research how to handle mail art archives. I think this is the best idea yet. Grad students get a unique problem they can 1) research 2) solve and then 3) write about in scholarly journals. A byproduct would be that you would secure the works you care about.
I wish you the best of luck in securing your archive or repurposing it into new art. I am a recycler myself so I don’t have an archive and I don’t have archive legacy issues that go with archives.
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