Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

connected with others across the country and around the globe, networkers
generate dialogues of many kinds, from play to collaboration to propagandizing.
It's a defiant and subversive culture constantly slipping its message through the
postal system n the form of xeroxes, underground zines, audio cassettes,
videotapes, and computer discs. More recently, the fax, modem, and computer
bulletin board have been added to the networker's repertoire. Indeed, all the
duplicative technologies and any other available means of transmitting
information are potential tools for the networker..." Edited by Jan Zita Grover.
Vol. 11, No. 6 (February 1992). Newsprint. 17"x11" (oversize). 26
pages. "Received by Mail," includes contributions by Jeffrey Vallance (USA),
Sister Serpents (USA), et al.
Vol. 12, No. 2 (October 1992). Newsprint. 17"x11" (oversize). 31
pages. "Prison Envelope Art: Imagery in Motion." Selections from an exhibition
in Long Beach, California.
Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 1992). Newsprint. 17"x11" (oversize). 27
pages. Cover art by Joel Lipman (USA).
Vol. 12, No. 8 (April 1993). Newsprint. 17"x11" (oversize). 27 pages.
Guest edited by Vince Leo (USA). "...while this issue is not expressly about
art or community or cultural activism, to my mind is 'is' art, community, and
cultural activism. It's a testimonial to the differences we call our own, to all the
cultures that every who loves 'Artpaper' holds dear." Contributors asked to
recommend an item of current interest. Contributions by Hakim Bey (USA), Chris
Dodge (USA) and Stephen Perkins (USA), who writes about "'SMILE' Classified
Review," edited by Simon Ford (England). "Smile is everybody's magazine
because anybody can produce it! All you have to do is call your magazine
'SMILE.' the English writer Stewart home proposed the SMILE concept in 1984
after plagiarizing and refining ideas that had been developed by the Neoist
conspiracy in the late '70s and then reapplying them to the field of publishing. the
concept found fertile ground as it weaved its way through the international
network of neoists, cultural refuseniks, correspondence artists, xerox zinesters,
and others in underground networks. this catalog documents approximately 11
'SMILE's produced throughout Europe,, North America, and Australia during the
years 1984-1988. Editor Simon Ford also provides succinct overviews of a string
of related concepts that intersect with the 'SMILE' project: Neoism, Multiple
Names, Plagiarism, and the Art Strike..."
Ask Ling. Al Ackerman, Editor. San Antonio, Texas. 1984-1986.
Christmas Issue ([December 27, 1984]). Photocopy. 8 1/2"x5 1/2".
(4 pages). Mail Art lit-zine by the master of the TLP (Tacky Little Pamphlet).