Direct transfer of ideas by
the means and instruments of human
communication.
Communication - a warrant of existence.
Mail - mediator, and sometimes even cooperator
in spreading artistic messages.
Creation - the very act of communication.
Idea and message: yes, but often also an object
of certain plastic form and aesthetical nature.
Not "art on the brink of art", but
art in the eye and spirit of art.
Without aesthetical, thematical and national
fences.
Immanent rules of functioning of mail art.
New media - new artistic forms.
Not only a different form of artistic imagination.
Deprofessionalization and decommercialization
of art.
New artistic sensibility sprouted beyond the
domain and space of the known, traditional fine
arts branches.
Different ways of comprehenssion of the contents
and meaning of the being of art.
Changed function of artistic artifacts.
Compound of artistic expression with possibilities
of mass media.
Pestilent creative energy of mail art.
Just an artistic hybryd?
Experiment in the very being of art.
To which extent the nature of the parcel can
pose boundaries (limitation) in the creative
work of mail artist?
Can and dare we to determine artistic phenomena
just on the basis of their positions and roles
in society?
Changed mode of experience in art.
To put the immanent poetics of mail art more
and more to the fore of theoretical consideration
and analysis.
Sharpened mechanisms of aesthetical perception.
It is time to abandon gradually and leave to
history the simple and one-way definition of
mail art by means of technical characteristics,
means and ways of spreading.
Source of understanding and agreeing, action
and imagination.
Constant expansion of experimental scope.
"Art of satisfaction and discovering".
(Ken Friedman)
Activating of the very structure of medim.
To consider once ogain the nature of communication.
Radical revaluation of fundamental assumptions
of art.
Inheriting historical avant-garde, primarily
Dadaism, mail art has grown into a compkletely
new art discipline.
Search for special forms of communications.
Possibility of codification of visual and gestual
signs.
"Beuuty is an information."
(Lotman)
In the being of mail art: ney sources, different
criteriua.
Liberation of inaginative potentials and semantic
wealth of message.
Action as a semantic gesture.
Dependance of human communication on objects
and mediators.
Interpretation of meaning and signigicance
of divergent spaces of experiment and researching
reach in mail art.
Comprehension of the world through play and
imagination.
Communicative artifacts - source of aesthetical
information.
Feeling of cillective spirit in network and
gently suppressing of individual artistic existence.
Elements of planetary thought and action in
crucial preoccupation of mail art.
Awareness of possibilities of mass communication.
Keys of intermedial play.
Just "metamorphosis of art into communication
media"?
Discarding of superficial and phenomenal layers
of art of communication.
Toward sketching of new artistic anthropology
and cosmology of mail art, his tougher poetical
and theoretical founding.
Possibility of semiological approach to the
basic elements and factors of mail art.
Denotative or conotative value of iconic segments
in message.
Communication means and their own inner sphere
and dimension.
Continuous experimental-researching dynamism
of artist.
How and where the sense of communication is
reflected?
Unconscious structures of meaning in gestures
and messages.
Non-accepting the established and worn models
of art.
Recognition of style characteristics of particular
mail artists.
Close experience of media.
Spectrum of artistic actions and opening new
experimental and creative possiblities in mail
art.
Specific action of body and spirit, separated
view, the planetary, media and communication.
Divergency of communication models.
Mail art work (gesture, message, action) as
a multi-layered, compact and irepeatable structure.
Ludist projection of the world.
Art - means of communication and analysis of
communicative mechanisms.
To try with defining of more distinct boundaries
between mail art and other artistic discipline.
Power of information and form of the medium
used.
Modification of aesthetical object in mail
communication.
Problems of semiology of visual signs.
Radical themes and methods of artistic behaviour
in mail art.
Insufficient aesthetization of communication
media.
Multiple associative intensification of visual
messages.
Mail art one of actional disciplines of mind.
Artist and art at the very source of art.
Creation of freedom in a non-awakened world.
Struggle between communicaton and chaos.
Role of language and linguistic elements in
building of aesthetical structure of mail art.
How to avoid systems?
Ambivalent relationship to communication material.
Place and role of creative components in communication
medium.
Planetary game and explosion of artistic avant-gardes.
Would the world be the world without communication?
Spendability, irony, self-sourceness, deconstructional
metaphysicity - paradoxes of mail art.
Non-bordered spaces of research.
Formation of perceptive structure for reception
and deciphering the messages.
Just an art of communication?
Desire for polemical conflict with the world
where one exists.
Transformation of the object of research of
art.
To insist, beside communication and ludic dimension,
on imaginative and cognitive dimension of mail
art.
Critical charge and aesthetical provocation.
Liberating power of creative energies.
Communicative activity and search for real aesthetical
values.
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