Guroga: How you knew the mail art?

Guroga: How you knew the mail art?

Ruud Janssen: I was doing mail-art before I knew there was a network. In the 70-ies doing correspondence and in 1980 discovered the network. Have been part of that network ever since. Guy Bleus (Belgium) sent me a first addresslist and there I started contacting the network.....

Guroga: What mean the mail art in your life?

Guroga: What mean the mail art in your life?

Ruud Janssen: Mail-Art has changed my life. A lot of essential changes have come from impulses from the network. My life is global and I am in contact with all kind of corners in the world.

DVS : How would you describe the 6th generation of Mail-Artists?

RJ : In the text I wrote before with the 5 generations of mail-artists I already mentioned there would come such a generation. I believe the Social networks have given us this sixth generation. Artists that work online and discover through online publications the Mail-Art works and the Mail-Art network. They research and send out their first snail-mail. Normally the sent work is documented online, the rceiver gets a digital message, and the surprise is to see the original work posted by the receiver on a blog, website or social network. So instead of moving from analog to digital, the 6th generation discovers analog in the digital world.