Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

mail-art, news-letters, leaflets and posters operate on a level that is used by
Cassette Culture. Independent artists make their works available by word of
mouth, hand to hand in cultural circles, through local shops, alternative music
programming on campus radio stations, via independent distributors using mailorder
catalogues, and through the vital arteries of world-wide mail networking. It
is through networking that local artists can engage in international communities
of creative independents who operate outside of 'Official' culture."
Serious Attentions. Svjetlana Mimica, Editor. Split, Croatia.
1992-1995.
(No. 1) (October 1992). Photocopy. 11 3/4"x8 1/4". (7 pages).
"Enclosed you find a xerox-copy of the first magazine make by Svjetlana Mimica
from Croatia. since mail from Croatia is difficult to send out I distribute these
magazines on request by Svjetlana. Please forgive the bad copy quality. In WAR
materials to make a good xerox is impossible." (Note from Ruud Janssen,
Tilburg, Holland, October 14, 1992). "Serious Attentions' will appear quarterly,
free for mail-artists, xeroxed in Croatia, legalized in IOUMA [International Union
of Mail Artists, ed.] (Holland) as international mail-art magazine." poetry by the
editor. Contributions by Andrea Ovcinnicoff (Italy), Kimmo Framelius (Finland),
G. Donaudi (Italy), Malok (USA), Mike Dyar (USA), John Held, Jr. (USA), et al.
No. 2 (1993). Photocopy. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". 7 pages. Printed and distributed
by Ruud Janssen (Holland) for the editor. Contributions by De Decker Geert
(Belgium), Jim Klingbeil (USA), Ruud Janssen, et al. Mail Art exhibition, project
and publication opportunities.
No. 3 (1993). Photocopy and Rubber Stamps. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". (6
pages). Printed and distributed by Ruud Janssen (Holland) for the editor.
Contributions by Picasso Gaglione (USA), Simon Baudhuin (Belgium), JEM (aka
Joy McManus, USA). Ruud Janssen, et al. Mail Art exhibition, project and
publication opportunities.
No. 5 (October 1993). Photocopy. 8 1/4"x5 3/4". (12 pages). "Blinking
Through: japan tour diary 1993," by John Held, Jr. (USA). Contributions by
Zdenek Sima (Czech Republic), Peter and Angela Netmail (Germany),
"Testimony of an Artist in War," by Andrej Tisma (Yugoslavia). Poetry by the
editor. Mail Art exhibition, project and publication opportunities.
No. 8 (July 1994). Photocopy and Carbon Paper. 11 3/4"x8 1/4". (10
pages). Poetry by the editor. "Electronic Mail-Art," by Ruud Janssen (Holland).
"Brain Cell," by Ryosuke Cohen (Japan). "First networking Congress in
Uzbekistan."