PS : What will happen to your mail-art archive?

For the time being I like to have the Mail-Art archive close to me. There are some parts though that are passed on to other parties. My complete corresepondence with mail-artists in Eastern Europe I have donated to the Schwerin Museum in Germany. They have a permament collection of mail-art (have a look at: https://www.museum-schwerin.de/en/collection-research/research/archive/

Because in the last decades a lot of books have been published on the subject of Mail-Art in small editions, these books form an important part of the archive. I also actively publish books by myse;f and others to make sure information is written down and available for others to research. See the bookstore at:  http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/iuoma

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.

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Mail from Luciana Tamas - Romania

This card Luciana Tamas sent to me as part of the mail-interview