#eternal network

[sinister-w1zard]

Mail art #4,, last bundle for now

[sinister-w1zard]

Mail art #1,,, some collages n a badge

[psychicfriendsnetwork]

StampZine No. 68

[freshslate-blog]

The Purpose of imagination is not to solve the mystery of life, but to embrace it.

Chuck Welch

[anakeemarie-blog]

The Eternal Network Project 2003 to preaent

- The Eternal Network Project (mail art) uses participatory art to form and explore collaborations between MAM, the US postal service and other artists on a global scale. The finished pieces are then exhibited in various public forums and placed into collections recording each trial. Ongoing mixed media collective themes include, “koi”, “Sunspots” and “Artist Stamps“. -

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Do not bend or spindle by Marie Anakee Miczak - Koi Fish on Card, Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center, SD USA, “Do Not Bend , Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art” 2006  

As of 2006 over 300 separate pieces of art have been created by Marie Anakee for this ongoing project.

www.anakee.com

[nowwwh]

Art's Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.

He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now.

Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners - working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art.

Artists have celebrated Art's Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990's) the Internet.

[performamagazine]

Tales from the Western Front (part 1)

By Liz Park

The Western Front, Vancouver's historic artist-run center for new art forms, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1973 by eight artists—Martin Bartlett, Kate Craig, Henry Greenhow, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov, and Mo van Nostrand—the Western Front has been an important pillar in the city’s contemporary art community. This interdisciplinary art organization has supported the production and presentation of exhibitions, media art residencies, performance art, music, and publications, and houses an impressive archive of early media work and recordings of performance art by international artists including Antoni Muntadas, Tania Bruguera, Mona Hatoum, Chip Lord, and Sanja Ivekovic, to name a few.

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Read "Tales from the Western Front (part 1)" in Performa Magazine. 

Kate Craig, Flying Leopard, 1974.

  From top: Martha Rosler, slowscan transmission, 1990; Vincent Trasov, Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign, 1974; Wadada Leo Smith, solo concert, 1976.

  WF NOW (New Orchestra Workshop), concert, 2008. Grand Luxe Hall.

Images (from top): Glenn Lewis, New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver, 1973. Hank Bull and Patrick Ready, the HP Radio Show, 1976. 

  All photos courtesy of Hank Bull and the Western Front Society. 

[eternalnetwork]

choosing new members when i get a few more applications!