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135
Name: Anna Couey
Email Address: well, sf
Date: November 1991
Item: Essay for NC92 Telenetlink Congress; She states that telematic communication is subversive; "It subverts the idea of authorship bound up within the solitary individual. It subverts the idea of individual ownership of the works of imagination. It replaces the bricks and mortar of institutions of culture and learning with an invisible college and floating museum..."
136
Name: Anna Couey
Email Address: well, sf
Date: November 1991
Item: NC92 Networker Statement: "Many art networkers are working towards the birth of an inclusive, organic and responsive creative communications paradigm on a global scale. Their work may be described and evaluated in terms other than art, for instance, social activism. The label of their work is not as important as its effect."
137
Name: Crackerjack Kid
Address: PO Box 978, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Date: November 1, 1991
Item: "NC92 Telenetlink Congress Announcement." "All networkers interested in linking the mail art and telematic communities are invited to join in a Telenetlink Congress. This event is a 'congress in progress' and is scheduled to occur throughout 1992. Participation may involve any form of telecommunication exchange, email, fax, video..."(continued 138)
138
Name: Crackerjack Kid
(continued from 137)
"...phones etc. Visual or verbal communication discussing the role of the networker is one possible theme. Proposals and projects that would interconnect the mail art and telematic community are also welcome. What mutual benefits would be derived from telenetlinking both worlds?"
139
Name: Crackerjack Kid
Email Address: Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu
Date: November 12, 1991
Items: An eletronic "Telenetlink Congress" update + on-line news -- Telenetlinks by Chuck Welch -- that appeared on Jeff Mann's Canadian Usenet newsgroup rec. arts. fine
140
Project Metanet: "NC92 Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience"
Place: Sao Paulo Bienale
Date: November 1991
Items: In collaboration with Dr. Artur Matuck, Reflux Network project director, artists attending the Sao Paulo Bienial participated via e-mail :These participants e-mailed records of their, metanet action: Maria Ronilda De Oliveira, Itamar Jose Sopezak, Sylvio Alberto Silva Peccinini, Jenny Morales, Synesio Goncalves, & Maria Oliveira
141
Project: NC92 Telenetlink Congress
Date: November 6, 1991
Items: In an effort to interconnect the Sao Paulo Bienale's Reflux Network Project, Edward Michael Miller at Carnegie Mellon University (Reflux Net's nerve/message center) forwarded e-mail dialogue, information etc. about Reflux to be incorporated in the Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress' Databank, and also for further interaction from NC92 participants. Reflux snags are pointed out.
142
Project: NC92 Telenetlink Congress
Date: November 11, 1991
Item: A three-page email exchange between Crackerjack Kid and Bob Gale, director of the Minneapolis Bulletin Board Service, "Artbase." Gale is among 24 international "nodes" participating in Dr. Artur Matuck's Sao Paulo Bienial "Reflux Network Project." Gale describes his concerns about the NEA forming a grant cat. in telecom art. He also mentions "Arts Wire."
143
Project: Spirit Netlink Performance
Date: November 7, 1991
Items: Eleven students at Rhode Island School of Art and Design formed a circle in Room 1 of the RISD Student Center and performed ten minutes spirit to spirit. Lights were off and all students lay on their stomachs with legs crossed and up in the air: One account of experience by Wendy E. Jackson follows: "I wanted to melt with the rug but my ribs got in the way. Then the..." (continued 144)
144
(continued from 143) "...stamping started and it was hard not to think of a word in advance....I can't stop thinking about STRESS, not even for a minute...Phenomenologically speaking, the most outstanding experience I just had was that I wanted to be this rug which smells like black licorice. Yesterday, I was looking at some street lights out the window of the Refectory wondering when they would go off. Then they did. Boom!"
145
Project: Spirit Netlink Performance
Date: November 31, 1991
Item: Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience between Buttons, 679 E. 9th St. #6, Chico, California 95928 and Reed Altemus: Description: "A simultaneous chant of the word 'shoe' between Reed Altmus (east coast) and myself (west coast). Considering the time differential and the fact our time pieces may be off a bit I chanted 8 minutes to insure both a quality chant as well as..." (continued 146)
146
(continued from 145 ) "...the 5 min. duration. I've chanted 'nam-myono-renge-kyo' in the past and am familiar with the spiritual aspects of chanting. -- However, linking up with another like minded soul in a combined effort to 'rid the world of blisters and other foot related inconveniences.' There was a spiritual bonding if not a geographical bonding. After this chant performance I took my lunch break and reflected upon it."
147
Project: Spirit Netlink Performance
Date: September 15, 1991
Item: Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience between O Jason ( 27 Whitmore St., Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 4JS, England ) and his broken toilet. Duration of encounter: two hours; Location: Institute of Fatuous Research's toilet.
148
Project: NC92 Telenetlink Congress
Name: Stewart Dickson
Email address: celia!tpg!dickson@usc.edu
Date: November 18, 1991
Item: "I have been a member of I.S.C.A. and have come to know the Int. Anarchist MailArt network via this forum. I have been computing professional as well as professional artists since 1981 and have been waiting for a MailArt network to emerge in the electronic realm. I applaud your efforts. I await receipt of the first broadcast images."
149
Project: Telenetlink Congress
Date: November 21, 1991
Item: Letter exchange between NC92 Congress organizers Crackerjack Kid and Reid Wood in an effort to establish a Telenetlink site at Wood's congress in Oberlin, Ohio . Crackerjack Kid made emailcontacts with Oberlin Reflux Network directors Carter McAdams and Wayne Draznin, (Coordinator Computer Arts Program, Cleveland Institute of Art) Message to Wood follows: (continued 150)
150
(continued from 149) "Dear Reid, Got your message that you'll be meeting Wayne Draznin, Coordinator Computer Arts Program, Cleveland Inst. of Art. Wayne and I have been exchanging email as a Reflux-NC92 netlink. I have asked him if he would assist you in establishing an 'NC92 Telenetlink Congress' site in Oberlin. Let me know how your meeting went."
151
Name: Ruggero Maggi
Address: C.So Sempione 67, 20149, Milano, Italy
Date: December 11, 1991
Item: Flyer produced by the Milan Art Center that lists eight Italian "Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congresses." Includes March 22, 1992 Meta-Net Congress at the " Milan Art Center " gallery.
152
Project: NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence
Date: December 2, 1991
Items: A letter exchange between Geoffrey Cook, PO Box 4233, Berkeley, California 94704 and Crackerjack Kid discussing the Bay Area Dadaist's proposal for the March 22, 1992 "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence" (NSD): "We shall gather together for a discussion of issues that your NSD raises. We shall, also, be working on questions and choose the final questions in consultation..." (continued 153)
153
(continued from 152) "...amongst ourselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. We can send the tape on to you in the early spring." Part of Crackerjack Kid's response in a letter to Cook: "If there were one central question to be 'formally addressed' at a 'Netshaker Harmonic Divergence' I would pick this question for open discussion; 'What is the role of a spiritual networker?'"
154
Name: Clemente Padin
Address: Casilla C. Central 1211, Montevideo, Uruguay
No Date
Item: Spanish text entitled "El Networker Latinoamericano-1" Included in the eight page pamphlet is the Networker Congress invitation, a statement by Hans Braumuller of Santiago, Chile, and a text by Clemente Padin, "El Network en Latino America."
155
Name: Gianni Broi
Address: C.P. 684, 50123, Florence, Italy
Date: December 11, 1991
Item: Personal letter to Crackerjack Kid discussing spiritual communication in networking. Broi announces that the "Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo de Brasil" has asked him to exhibit "La Posta In Gioco." He suggests establishing a new project proposal involving fax and computer modem. Crackerjack responds with idea of netlinking with Telenetlink Project.
156
Name: Giuseppe Lannicelli
Address: JJ & Co., 20 Via Sacco, 1-15100, Alessandria, Italy
Date: December 12, 1991
Item: "The Lost Networker" "Networker, in my opinion does not exist. We are all too different from one another, we have different aims and motivations, and surely a stamp put somewhere on an envelope will not be enough to make us more similar. -- I believe that a 'network' makes sense only if it is able to maintain an art-communication-ethic relationship different from the mass-communication system."
157
Name: Giuseppe Lannicelli
Address: JJ & Co., 20 Via Sacco, 1-15100, Alessandria, Italy
Date: December 12, 1991
Item: A Networker Congress announcement by JJ &Co. Communication Ent.; "There will be a day dedicated (April 11, 1992) to discuss the theme 'Art Ethics and Communication in the Network,' to deepen theories and problems that sometimes are lost in the universe of communication we usually frequent. All mail artists, artists, publishers and authors of self-produced and underground magazines, computer networkers and so on are invited to participate."
158
Name: Artestudio
Address: 24028 Ponte Nossa - Bergamo, Via S. Bernardino 88, Italy
Date: December 12, 1991
Items: Poster announcing "Artestudio's May 9-10, 1992 Networker Congress." Stapled assemblage of misc. artestudio congress stamps, announcements, covers, NC92 announcements etc.
159
Name: Jacqueline Wolven
Address: 2421 Elden Ave. #1, Costa Mesa, California 92627-5111
Date: December 12, 1991
Item: Proposal for a NC92 "Women in the Mail" Congress: "All women who are interested in sharing their thoughts, ideas, creativity, and energy on the issue of Women in the Mail, please feel free to express yourself! You can join this Congress by sending in a piece that encompasses how you envision your role as a women involved in the networking process."
160
Name: Daniel Daligand
Address: 33 Rue Louise Michel, 92300 Levallois, Belgium
Date: December 14, 1991
Item: Announcement of a Mail Art Congress in Compiegne- France : "On Saturday 28th March 1992 during the mail-art exhibition held from March 14th until the end of April we organize a one-day decentralized networker congress in Centre culturel de CompiŽgne, Place Briet d' Abigny, 60200 CompiŽgne."
161
Name: O. Jason
Address: 27 Whitmore St., Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4JS . United Kingdom
Date: December 20, 1991
Item: "Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience" Context: "opening mail and filling in the playtime forever mail art opening research form." Description: "The Global Collage/Collective Possibilities/Pleas for Networketry/Nothing is Static/Change/And What Changes?/2-Way Communication/ The Visitors participation/Chaos/Nothing is Good/The gift/Play Time for Ever/Pray for Play."
162
Name: Hans Braumüller
Address: Santiago, Chile
Date: December 24, 1991
Item: Networker statement (English Translation); "This is my role as networker now: starting from the other side of history, to contact equal people in order to work together. On the one hand, I exchange artistic collaborations, concepts, medias -- so I recycle my art; on the other hand, I maintain myself in the world of alternative art as a messenger of the Indigenous pain resisting the wars of conquest since 1492."
163
Name: Graciela G. Marx
Address: Casilla De Correo 266, C.P. 1900, La Plata, Argentina
Date: December 24, 1991
Item: Networker statement and info about congress meeting; "We'll MET-a-NETWORK in the Decentralized world-wide networker congress in 1992. We're planning to meet with our closed mail-friends in 1992. It will be perhaps on April, at the 'Galpon de la Loma,' in La Plata, in the ancient playing landscape of the Compania de la Tierra Malamada," to talk about art and colon-ization."
164
Name: Mike Dyar
Address: 1418 Larkin St., Apt. 1, San Francisco, California 94109
No Date
Item: Information sheet concerning a censored 1968 mailart show held nine years later in Dubuque, Iowa .
165
Name: Steve Perkins/Lloyd Dunn
Address: 221 W. Benton St., Iowa City Iowa 52246
No Date
Item: "Networker Congress Statements" pamphlet: "This booklet is comprised of networking statements received by the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers, Iowa Chapter (ASCW-IA) generated in response to the Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 1992. Intended to open up debate and to provide a vehicle for Congress discussions, these edited statements would not be viewed as a comprehensive overview of networking in the 90s."
166
Name: Shozo Shimamoto
Address: 1-1-10 Koshienguchi, Nishinomiya, Japan 663
Date: December 15, 1991
Item: Networker Statement: "Spreading throughout the earth in all directions with each individual freely choosing their own way of expression, mail art networking propagates in a geometrical progression or vanishes, over and over. Its contents are so pluralistic and substantial that people that look at artistic expression in a shortsighted manner find it hard to comprehend or even accept."
167
Name: Geoffrey Cook
Address: PO Box 4233, Berkeley, California 94704
Date: November 4, 1991
Item: Letter from Cook to Crackerjack Kid regarding preliminary plans to organize an "NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence" with Bay Area Artists: "All I know is that Crag Hill, myself, Bill Gaglione and asundry friends will be getting together in March."
168
Name: Ruud Janssen
Address: PO Box 10388, 5000 JJ Tilburg, The Netherlands
Date: November 1, 1991
Item: Congress Proposal entitled "Congress-Idea 1992." Document reads in part; "Since I work a lot with computers (I have my own Host-System, and the computerized TAM-Bulletin) I would like to organize a few congress computer-sessions. During these fixed days mail- artists can log on to the central computer here in Tilburg."
169
Name: Bob Drake
Address: Burning Press, PO Box 585, Lakewood, Ohio 44107
Date: November 1, 1991
Item: Copy of InterSect Newsletter containing "Telenetlinks" and "Netlinks" essays by Chuck Welch
170
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: December 10, 1991
Item: "Networker Congress 1992: An Annotated Bibliography"
171
Name: Carlo Pittore
Address: Post Rd., Bowdoinham, Maine, 04008-0182
Date: January 2, 1992
Item: One page document of the "1992 Decentralized World-Wide Network Congress, Bowdoinham, Maine 04008 " signed by Robert Saunders and Carlo Pittore. Reads: "Discussed: Mayumi and Kristof D'; Bern Porter of Maine; Guy Bleus of Administration Center; Shozo S., Reed Altemus; Steve Random - we are about Buster Cleveland right now."
172
Name: Peter Kaufmann
Address: Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: November 26, 1991
Item: Black postcard with white type that reads, "Keep Yougoslavia alive, feed the tourists and the other monkeys yours +PK+"
173
Name: Bruno Pollaci
Address: Via G. Bonamici 8, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Date: December 29, 1991
Item: Postcard announcing the "Images Congress Project Pisa" (deeds, no words); Deadline: April 15, 1992
174
Name: Seiei Nishimura
Address: Iida, Nagano, Japan
Date: December 1, 1991
Item: Letter to Crackerjack Kid discussing role of the spiritual and materialistic networker: "Now, we must break our social culture in our mind, spirit -- and we must cut our social net-thought in our mind, spirit. And we must open our new human live net, communication in our soul. To do it is very difficult and dangerous work." Reply from Crackerjack Kid.
175
Name: Crackerjack Kid
Address: Hanover, New Hampshire
Date: December 3, 1991
Item: Letter to H.R. Fricker discussing Networker Congresses, Perneczky's "A Háló," etc.: "Mail art networkers, in my view, examine the relativity between reality and fiction. Networkers jam the communication age with a hidden wrench - appropriating the fictive truths of advertised political and economic dogma, they alter the content so that messages are no longer a cultural massage, but a poke at pinnochio's fictitious nose. If mail art is 'gentle communication:' as Perneczky writes, networking is both ethereal and real - and networkers know the difference between both realities. Metacommunication or neonic commun ication then, is not the fluffy stuffing in some philosopher's sofa, it is a confrontation with materialism and the acknowledgment of a spiritual alternative - an awakening!"
176
Name: Turk Le Clair
Address: Radio Free Dada, PO Box 4583, Santa Rosa, California 95402
Date: December 28, 1991
Item: Mailed "Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience" for "NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence": Location: Grave yards around the world; Context: Folks in times to come; Description: "Some time, not too many years from now - the people will remember and will visit the tombs of the once mighty and form long lines so each can have their turn to piss on the graves. We have Nixon and Raygun for starters. The people will remember."
177
Name: Crackerjack Kid
Address: Hanover, New Hampshire
Date: January 8, 1992
Item: Letter to NC92 Dallas Netlink Facilitator John Held Jr. Letter reads in part: "Send me a sealed envelope which contains a brief statement: a) what do you think is the role of the SPIRITUAL NETWORKER, and b) do you consider yourself absent or present in my congress? I will be placing your sealed letter on an empty chair with your name on it. So while you may not be at my congress in the flesh, at least you will be there in spirit."
178
Name: JosŽ VdBroucke
Address: Pikkelstraat 49, B-8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Date: December 23, 1991
Item: Postcard with inscription: "1992: This year I will eat and sleep and wash my body and go to the toilet and make love and clean my house and my garden and talk with my neighbors and do my job and send my mail WHILE YOU CONGRESS!"
179
Name: Marsha Anne Runner and Jimmy Runner
Address: 996 Coppet Street, Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
Date: January 6, 1992
Item: Rubberstamped postcard for "NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence."
180
Name: Peter W. Kaufmann
Address: Bergwisenstr. 11, CH-1823, Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: December 26, 1991
Item: "The Networker Congress Chronologie 92" Also mailed "Netlink of the DNC92" address list for congress facilitators.
181
Name: Peter W. Kaufmann
Address: Bergwisenstr. 11, CH-1823, Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: December 26, 1991
Item: Large mailer with congress stamps and skull with inscription, "N.E.O.N.I.C.S. network and mail art is human rights 1991" Contents included list of NC92 "Planned Open Sessions," and four "Telenetlink Stamp Designs" for the "NC92 Telenetlink Congress."
182
Name: Reed Altemus
Email Address: LRALTEMU@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU
Date: November 9, 1991
Item: Faxed a "Record of Phenomenological Spirit Experience" -- a graphic blueprint of a Metanouvoismus - Fluxus one room schoolhouse. Note on other side of Fax sheet to Crackerjack Kid.
183
Name: TPG Digital Center
Address: 505 N. Naomi St., Burbank, California 91505
Date: January 2, 1992
Item: Faxed a Ray Johnson Death Triangle for the "NC92 Telenetlink Congress." Inscription around triangle reads, "Decentralized Oh Boy Congress 1992"
184
Name: O. Jason
Address: England
Date: January 2, 1992
Item: Networker Statement: "THIS IS FAT(uous) pleas for networketry" "By networking we learn to step beyond our egos and become aware of collective possibilities. No one individual is at the centre of a network. Networking shows us that the world is always larger than we can ever grasp. Nothing is ever static in a network. Networking enables us to embrace change. Networking is always concerned with participation. By networking we resist the dominant culture which only wants us to be passive consumers."
185
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: January 13, 1992
Item: Stampsheet of the "Stamp Francisco Networker Congress 1992, January 10, 1992." Congress stampsheet lists approximately two dozen participants who attended the congress at San Francisco 's Stamp Art Gallery . (Additional items related to Stamp Francisco, which were later donated by Held, are also filed with this entry).
186
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: January 13, 1992
Item: "Excerpts from the Goforth Journal: Stamp Francisco Networking Congress, Networking Fresco, and the Birth of the Fake Picabia Brothers."
187
Name: Tom [surname deleted on request]
Address: [Worms, Germany]
Date: January 5, 1992
Item: "Network Project Status Report of Capitalmocracy with Ketchup." Report lists turnout for the "Capitalmocracy with Ketchup" international mail art show for Soviet friends." Tom declares the project a 1992 Decentralized Networker Congress and asks all the NC92 congress facilitators to 'please disseminate this information.'"
188
Name: Noospapers
Address: PO Box 2726
Date: January 25, 1992
Item: Advertisement for "Noospapers: The Publication of the Immediast Underground." "The Immediast Underground is an international collective of networking artists, writers, hackers, pirate broadcasters, and posterists who communicate with one another through information systems, mail art, and the underground press, and who communicate with the public through actions against all forms of coercive communication and manipulative images"
189
Name: Pedro Bericat
Address: No 51 - 10 Ocha, 50002 Zaragoza, Spain
Date: January 27, 1992
Item: Postcard announcement for a "Information Congress Meta-Networker."
190
Name: Harry Polkinhorn
Address: PO Box 927428
Date: January 28, 1992
Item: Sheet announcing proposal for a September 2, 1992, Decentralized Networker Congress at PO Box 927428, San Diego, California 92192 . Activity is listed as "writing."
191
Name: Jennifer Huebert
Address: Women's Studio Workshop, PO Box 489, Rosendale, New York 12472
Date: January 28, 1992
Item: Letter expressing desire to serve as a facilitator and organize a networker congress involving women in the project. Mailed a networker congress T-Shirt with oval logo. Reply from Crackerjack Kid
192
Name: Ruggero Maggi
Address: C. So Sempione 67, 20149 Milano, Italy; Fax: 00392/3491947
Date: January 29, 1992
Item: Mediteranean Congress Statement: "In the artistic world there are some resistances at the introduction of computer and other technological means, due to their costs, still relatively high, and to the fear that they could rationalize too much the artistic work. But computers and other means are like a pencil or a brush, the only difference lies in their higher degree of evolution."
193
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: January 29, 1992
Items: 1) Latinoamerican Networker Pre-Congresses: Reports from Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile; 2) "Excerpts from the Goforth Journal: Stamp Francisco Networking Congress, Networking Fresco, and the Birth of the Fake Picabia Brothers;" 3) "Preparing for the Netowrker Congress 1992: An Annotated Bibliography with a listing of materials on the Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 1992 distributed from Winter 1990 through January 1992."
194
Name: Darren Striker
Address: Box 80044, Akron, Ohio 44308
Date: January 29, 1992
Item: Announcement of a NC92 Labor Day Congress, September 7th in Akron, Ohio . "This will coincide with the annual Dumpster Day Picnic which is held every Labor Day here in Akron . Submissions, requests for info and the like can be sent to me c/o WSD at PO Box 80044, Akron, or people can call (216) 762-1279 for info on both the congress and Dumpster Day."
195
Name: Bern Porter
Address: 22 Salmond, Belfast, Maine 04915
Date: January 30, 1992
Item: Postcard proposal for an on-going NC92 "Meta-Networker Congress each day between 1:18 A.M. to 3:22 A.M. at the Institute of Advanced Thinking 's sub-basement and annex." Porter writes, "telepaths only."
196
Name: David Cole
Address: 19 Grace Ct., 4C, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Date: January 31, 1992
Item: "Paumonock Worksong Commemorative Postage, 1992" for the Netshaker Harmonic Divergence.
197
Name: Guy Bleus
Address: P.O. Box 43, 3830 Wellen, Belgium
Date: January 31, 1992
Items: 2 photos and a letter to Crackerjack Kid, "Don't know what mail-art will bring this year. The 'Art Is Books' show is still traveling. There will be the zoo congress in Antwerp and maybe I'll be involved in the show organized by the PTT Museum in the Hague ( Holland ) I'll keep you posted. Mail-art is a gift, a favour of the gods. Only Hermes must know why."
198
Name: Steve Bradley
Address: College of New Rochelle, SAS, Dept. of Art, New Rochelle, New York 10805
Date: February 4, 1992
Item: Catalogue for "Post-Modem Facsimile," a fax show at College of New Rochelle 's College Center Gallery. Invitation to "NC92 Telenetlink Congress" was posted in the show - an effort to interconnect mail artists and the telematic community.
199
Name: FaGaGaGa
Address: Box 1382, Youngstown, Ohio 44501
Date: February 4, 1992
Item: The Face of the Congress zine, January 1992 issue. "Welcome to the first edition of The Face of the Congress. This monthly publication, which will reproduce portraits created during Networker meetings, will be our contribution to the NC92." ( NOTE: See entry 274 for Issues #2-3, and entry 316 for #4)
200
Name: Chuck Welch
Address: Lebanon, New Hampshire
Date: February 4, 1992
Item: The Reflux Project Catalogue: An Art Telecommunication Event and Learning Environment for Decentralized Interchange edited by Francis Goldsberry, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University . Catalogue includes several essays by Chuck Welch which connected Reflux Project with NC92 through the "Telenetlink Congress."
201
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: February 3, 1992
Item: "Networker Jazz" artiststamp sheet made by Held from Crackerjack Kid's network jazz singer postcard.
202
Name: Angela Pähler and Peter Küstermann
Address: PO Box 2644, D-495, Minden, Germany
Date: February 5, 1992
Items: Mailed black and white photograph of Peter Küstermann in his traditional post uniform hanging mail art to Italian Antonio Tregnaghi at the publishing desktop in his hometown Lucca's Studio Giallo. Mailed a "Press Information Sheet" and a congress sheet describing a January 5th congress with Daniel Daligand.
203
Name: Phil McCray
Email Address: <PMC@CORNELLA.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: January 13, 1992
Item: Request for information pertaining to NC92. "I refer to the PMC posting in which the NC92 Telenetlink Congress was discussed. May I ask you to provide me with some general information about NC92, and perhaps other relevant sources of activity (such as alt.artcom)? Sent entire 'Networker Databank' entries."
best wishes,
Phil McCray
Cornell University Archives
Reply was sent via email to above electronic address. Messages were sent in seven parts; Parts 1-4 "Networker Databank Congress;" Part 5 List of Projects and Contacts; Part 6 NC92 Project Description; Part 7 "Art That Networks" essay. Entire interconnection with Cornell University was part of the NC92 "Telenetlink Congress."
204
Name: E.Z. Smith & Maillory
Address:25's Stuff, 834 E. Yale, Fresno, California 93704
Date: February 10, 1992
Item: Gallery 25, Fresno, California, mail art show and congress postcard announcement.
205
Name: Not listed
Address: Cagliari, 10 Gennaio 1992, Sala Verde, Cittadella dei Musei
Date: February 10, 1992
Item: Postcard with title "Mediterranean Congress 1992."
206
Name: Greg Ruggiero
Address: PO Box 2726, Westfield, New Jersey 07091
Date: February 12, 1992
Items: Letter to Crackerjack Kid, letter from H.R. Fricker to "The Immediast Underground," assorted flyers about "The Immediast Underground" and "Noospapers."
207
Name: Peter Kustermann and Angela Pahler
Address: PO Box 2644, D495 Minden, West Germany
Date: January 1, 1992
Item: Sprit Netlink Performance; Duration: 7 hours; Location: Swiss Alps; Context: The very first Networker Congress in 1992 starting at midnight in the first second of the New Year; Description: "As an homage to Hans Ruedi (Fricker) we worked our slow way up to this mountain resort. -- we regretted the loss of some old mail art friends, physically and mentally, and welcomed some new ones in spirit!! We agreed to meet again after 366 days exactly to look back on what we expect now."
208
Name: Malok
Address: Box 41, Waukau, Wisconsin 54930
Date: February 13, 1992
Item: three b/w photocopy collages; "From a day of discomfort scents, traces, clues plentiful hands ingenuity."
209
Name: Peter W. Kaufmann
Address: 8123 Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: February 13, 1992
Items: NC92 events list, updated "Chronology of the World Wide Networker Congress," photocopy of Peter Kunstermann hand delivering network congress mail, and portrait of Peter W. Kaufmann. Letter from Crackerjack Kid to Peter W. Kaufmann.
210
Name: David Cole
Address: 19 Grace Ct., Brooklyn, New York
Date: February 12, 1992
Item: Two sheets of artist stamps commemorating the metanet. Letter from David Cole to Crackerjack Kid.
211
Name: Geoffrey Cook
Address: PO Box 4233, Berkeley, California 94704 ;
Date: February 1, 1992
Item: Letter to Crackerjack Kid concerning establishment of San Francisco Bay Area "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence." Reply to Cook about establishing telenetlinks during the March 22, congresses in Sand Francisco and Lebanon, New Hampshire . A list of Telenetlink email addresses was mailed to Cook.
212
Name: Pete Fischer
E-mail Address: pete.fischer@stjhmc.fidonet.org
Date: February 6, 1992
Item: Telenetlink congress connection between Fischer and Crackerjack Kid. Transmitted materials exchanged include Letter to Fischer, NC92 Congress information and contact sheet.
213
Name: Ohio State University
Email Address: leslie@cgrg.ohio-state.edu
Date: February 6, 1992
Item: transmission from Ohio State University. to Chuck Welch about printing his NC92 article in "Interface" electronic magazine.
214
Name: Pete Fischer
Address: Metropophobobia, Box 2589, Phoenix, Arizona 85002-2589
Date: 1-30-92
Item: Letter to NC92 "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence" explaining a desire to be a telecommunications node on March 22nd. "We are interested in using telecommunication to connect with any and all other arts groups who are having congress on that day (March 22) We have a Panasonic WG-R2 VidPhone and the "FrankenPhone" or "Camera Phone Visual Telephone Communications System."
215
Name: Chuck Welch
Address: Lebanon, New Hampshire
Date: February 6, 1992
Item: NC92 Telenetlink Congress contact sheet plus some possible questions for discussion on March 22 and thereafter. "Are privacy and security at risk in the environment from which you transmit information via internet? Some mail artists claim that Bulletin Board Services are easier and less expensive to connect with than computer highways like internet. Are there contrary views out there?"
216
Name: Artur Matuck
Email Address: <am4g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: January 15, 1992
Item: Matuck's vision of the role of the networker as inspired by his first ideas on establishing the "Reflux Network Project" from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
217
Names and Email Addresses: Phil McCray, Cornell University Archives; James Demmers, jd21@prism.gatech.edu; David Gallagher, <dagallagher@vassar.edu>; Uncle Don Milliken, Amherst College, Amherst, MA DPMILLIKEN@amherst.edu; editors of "Post Modern Culture" electronic magazine, North Carolina State University
Date: February 1992
Items: Telenetlink email messages were posted to all of the addresses listed here. Messages were sent in seven parts; Parts 1-4 "Networker Databank Congress"; Part 5 List of Projects and Contacts; part 6 NC92 Project Description; Part 7 "Art That Networks" essay. Combinations of all these items were emailed to all inquiries about the NC92 Telenetlink Congress and other networker year events.
218
Name: Reed Altemus
Address: LRALTEMU%SUVM
Date: February 6, 1992
Item: Message from Reed Altemus to NC92 Telenetlink Congress: "I found out some interesting info about visual information transfer. There is a shareware program for the MAC called 'Stuff it' which binhexes and 'stuffs' any MAC format file including scanned graphics so it can be sent over the Internet. Thing is, the address on the receiving end has to have 'Stuff it' to unbinhex and unstuff the file. It works best on UNIX systems."
219
Name: Stewart Dickson
Address: The Post Group, 6335 Homewood Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90028, celia!tpg!dickson@usc.edu
No Date
Item: Essay about the role of the networker sent via email to the NC92 Telenetlink Congress: "The electronically transmitted message lacks an independent identity -- it must inherit its identity from the apparatus which received it: the video monitor or the FAX machine. This is not to reduce the importance of these media, it is simply to express that something is missing. MailArt often evolves into the sculptural media when the artist's selection of materials is permitted to roam free. I would like to suggest an exchange which could restore some immediacy to electronic transmission. I am prepared to propose that sculpture can be transmitted over electronic networks."
220
Name: "Postmodern Culture" (PMC) electronic magazine
Address: PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU (internet)
Date: February 7, 1992
Item: Postmodern Culture's email magazine listing of NC92 Telenetlink Congress contact list.
221
Name: Scot Art
Address: Scot.Art@f634.n712.z3.fido.zeta.org.au
Date: February 9, 1992
Item: Australian email posting to the Telenetlink Congress announcing events for the "Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 1992."
222
Name: Angela Pähler and Peter Küstermann
Address: Minden, Germany
Date: February 14, 1992
Item: Instant Diary Documentation Catalogue for the DNC Congress Year 1992. Document as written by Peter Küstermann includes descriptions and philosophical statements concerning networker congresses with Cavellini (deceased) at gravesite, H.R. Fricker, NATO, Daniel Daligand, Johan Van Geluwe, Werner Elbrecht and others.
223
Name: Colleen
Address: PO Box 24, Bristol, Wisconsin 53104
Date: February 15, 1992
Item: Letter to Crackerjack Kid expressing intention to participate in the NC92 "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence."
224
Name: H.R. Fricker
Address: Trogen, Switzerland
Date: February 18, 1992
Item: Letter to Crackerjack Kid about Reflux Network, Telenetlinks, and congress matters; "I am just waiting for one word or a sentence or a concept -- waiting and waiting and when I got the word or sentence then I see: That's not from myself, it is something I got from the 'air.' Maybe that's the 'spirit' we are speaking about -- I am just a catcher."
225
Name: Musicmaster
Address: 5136 Lyndale Ave. So.
Date: February 21, 1992
Items: poetry, photocopied images, and letter to Crackerjack Kid announcing a meta-not gathering on March 22, "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence." "Anyone interested in joing GreetOmatic, Fucci, and Musicmaster for limited edition book(let) production on March 22 need only send comment, complaint, etc. to me for inclusion - ideally notes for mail-art related commentary, reflection, performance, and naturally rule-bending or breaking."
226
Name: Bern Porter
Address: 22 Salmong, Belfast, Maine 04915
Date: February 21, 1992
Item: Sent "spirit object" to be buried in "timeless capsule" during Crackerjack Kid's "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence." Also sent "sealed spirit envelope" for performance on March 22 at Crackerjack's house. Mailed "Spirit Netlink Performance" form documenting January 16, 1992 gathering in the "sub-basement of Institute of Advanced Thinking, Belfast, Maine " Context: Room temperature - 10 degrees F, Belfast Temperature 16 Degrees F - Wind 13 mph - Snowing all night 3-4 inches; Description: "A rotting 7 inch lemon pie in aluminum foil plate as obtained from stone soup kitchen where bern broke and fighting in court for his life's savings was placed on the floor, room center. -- 6 people gathered - Bern and 5 others - 3 to a side. 3 chanted lemon, lemon 15 times, 3 chantted rot rot 15 times. A slight yellow haze vapor smoke rose from the center of the pie."
227
Name: Jose Vandernbroucke
Address: Pikkelstraat 49, B-8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Date: February 21, 1992
Item: Misc. metanet 1992 materials, photo, copy art, etc.
228
Name: Tom Kudla
Address: USAI Sec-Eur, Cmr. 421, Box 689, APO AE 09056
Date: February 20, 1992
Item: Received a small spirit object for the "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence" timeless capsule burial on March 22, 1992. Also sent "my vision with performance gesture" for spirit performance on March 22.
229
Name: Calum Selkirk
Address: PO Box 334, Beford, MK40 3XN, England
Date: February 25, 1992
Items: Photocopy of "Desensitized World Wise Nutcracker Congress" and an article by Mark Bloch entitled, "Panscan = Mail Art + Teleconferencing." (flyer and postcard to Bill Gaglione about congress also filed with these items)
230
Name: Robin Crozier
Address: 5b Tunstall Vale, Sunderland SR2 7HP England
Date: February 25, 1992
Item: Memory sheet. Information about the "post-DDR-Mail-Art-Congress": "What about East-German Mail Art? Send your statements, concepts, postcards till our meeting to: Sabine Wohlrab, Prenzlauer, Allee 210, 0-1055 Berlin, Germany."
231
Name: Don Milliken
Email Address: DPMILLIKEN@amherst.edu
Date: February 15, 1992
Item: Inquiry via email for information pertaining to NC92 "Telenetlink Congress," "I want torn flesh and entrails, or at least something resembling one of those envelopes we used to send out to others to pass around, bend, staple, fold, mutilate and send back. If your neighbors think it's art, it ain't./If it's being taught on campus, it's gone by."
232
Name: Pete Fischer
Email Address: Pete.Fischer@stjhmc.fidonet.org
Date: February 15, 1992
Item: Lists new contacts to add on the "Telenetlink Congress" contact sheet including ANAT - Australian Network for Art and Technology, Conceptual Design Group, and The Electronic Cafe International.
233
Names: Maurizio Armellin and Piermario Ciani
Address: MU, VIA Duca d'Acosta 10, 31029 Vittorio Veneto (TV), Itlay (location of congress)
Date: February 29, 1992 (date of congress)
Item: Project Announcement for Italian NC92 congress, "Il Networker E I Rapporti Con Le Istituzioni." Sheet lists program of talks by Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni, and others.
234
Names: Vittore Baroni, Enrico Marani, and Manitu Rossi
Address: Via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio, Italy
No Date
Item: Project titled "Let's Network Together" audio cassette recording by Vittore Baroni, Enrico Marani, and Manitü Rossi. Postcard announcement accompanying the cassette states that "Let's Network Together" is the ..."(un)official hymn of the 'Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 1992' and a romantic tribute to the disappearing 45 RPM vinyl single. The record is available only as a free insert with issue #63 of 'Arte Postale!' limited edition of 600 copies."
235
Name: Dobrica Kamperelic
Address: 11040 beograd, Milovana Jankovica 9B, Yugoslavia
Date: February 24, 1992
Item: Sent copy of Open World 68 and mailed a "spirit object" for burial in a "timeless capsule" during the NC92 "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence." Also included are Crackerjack Kid's response to Kamperelic.
236
Name: Ruud Janssen
Address: PO Box 10388, 5000 JJ Tilburg, The Netherlands
Date: February 11, 1992
Item: A documentation of NC92 computer session between Janssen and Charles Francoise of Liege, Belgium.
237
Name: John Held
Address: Dallas, Texas
Date: February 20, 1992
Item: A Ray Johnson NC92 photocopy "add-on." photocopy stampsheet signed by Held, and a photocopied photograph of the "Stamp Franscisco Networker Congress" taken by E.Z. Smith. Letter from Held on back of congress photo.
238
Name: Jennifer Huebert
Address: PO Box 489, Rosendale, New York 12472
Date: February 20, 1992
Items: Mailed a "congress booklet," "spirit object" and "spirit performance" for the March 22 "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence." Huebert's letter addressed to Crackerjack Kid discusses feminism in the network and an observation about NC92, "Common aims of this net-year seem to be, 1) Congressing with non-networkers, 2) Communication between congress sessions, 3) Getting in touch in other ways besides meeting in person, and my own addition, 4) Getting more women involved." Response mailed from Crackerjack Kid to Huebert.
239
Name: JosŽ VdBroucke
Address: Pikkelstraat 49, B-8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Date: February 29, 1992
Item: Photocopy entitled, "Congress Solitaire."
240
Name: Peter Brandt
Address: Totenberg 58, D-5760 Arnsberg 1, Germany
Date: March 2, 1992
Item: Postcard depicting nets among varied portraits.
241
Name: Leon Bellin
Address: 1122 Maple Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
Date: March 3, 1992
Item: Networker statement, "There are all sorts of academies in the art world which conceive of themselves as unique, and in the center of the mainstream. To acknowledge that there is something meaningful happening elsewhere, however peripheral, must imply that the academy is less important than it has thought itself to be."
242
Name: Clemente Padin
Address: C Correo Central 1211, Montevideo, Uruguay
Date: March 4, 1992
Item: Magazine entitled El Networker Latinoamerica 2. Magazine includes the complete congress sessions list and mentions several of the NC92 congress projects.
243
Name: Peter W. Kaufmann
Address: Bergwisenstr. 11, CH-8123, Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: March 4, 1992
Item: updated "Networker Congress 92 Documentation."
244
Name: David Jarvis
Address: 31 Mountearl Gardens, London SW16 2N1, England
Date: March 10, 1992
Item: 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of "Eonidada Networking '92 Congress Woman."
245
Name: Edgardo-Antonio Vigo
Address: Casilla de Correo 264, 1900 La Plata Argentina
Date: March 10, 1992
Item: Postcard with inscription, "My 'physical presence' annul the 'absence' which is my 'real presence.'"
246
Name: Lloyd Dunn
Address: PO Box 227, Iowa City, Iowa 52244
Date: March 11, 1992
Item: Issue of Retrofuturism August 1991, Number 15. Issue includes "Plans for an International Networking Congress." Open Letter from Crackerjack Kid introduces new congress terminology, "netlinks" and "we should offer ourselves as 'facilitators' rather than directors."
247
Name: Geoffrey Cook
Address: PO Box 4233, Berkeley, California 94704
Date: April 30, 1992
Item: Filled out a "Spirit Netlink Performance" sheet on March 22, at the San Francisco office of the California Highway patrol, just across the street from Bill Gaglione's gallery. Also the following quote from correspondence: "Disturbing news coming out of L.A. this morning. The network should be prepared to support political resistence in this country if need be."
248
Name: Daniel Daligand
Address: 33, Rue Louise Michel, 92300 Levallois, France
Date: May 2, 1992
Item: Photographs of Daligand's mail art project "How Do You Imagine the City of Compiegne?" Also mailed correspondence, "The Congress in Compiegne was interesting with Charles Francois, Gilberto Prado, J.N. Laszlo, Pascal Lenoir, and people from Compiegne and friends of mine."
249
Name: H.R. Fricker
Address: 9043 Trogen, Switzerland
Date: May 2, 1992
Item: Assorted Networker Congress stickers. Postcard reads, "How was the 22nd of March??? Did you make a documentation? I send you some stickers designed by Piermario Ciani edited by HRF. Please don't forget: first of August, Trogen session about function and future of the networker congress."
250
Name: Shermakaye Bass
No Address
No Date
Item: "The Art is in the Mail; It's Also at the Downtown Library," The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, May 3, 1992, issue, p. 5. Article discusses John Held's "Fax Congress" held at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. Photograph appears of John Held and Crackerjack Kid at the "Networker Writers Congress."
251
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: 7919 Goforth, Dallas, Texas 75238
No Date
Item: "A Bibliography of International Networker Culture," A checklist of 31 books, magazines, and exhibition catalogs included in the Dallas Public Library Exhibition accompanying the "Fax Congress," May 2-9, 1992.
252
Name: H.R. Fricker
Address: CH-9043 Trogen, Switzerland
Date: March 8, 1992
Item: Correspondence, "If ever possible please discuss the future of the networkers' instrument; 'Networker Congress.' I think in the future the Networker Congress can be important like the mail art show today - a link to the public. 'Where two or more meet - makes it open to all, but I think we should determine what function a networker congress has. Therefore, the theme of my congress session is 'the networker-congress.'"
253
Name: H.R. Fricker
Address: CH-9043 Trogen, Switzerland
Date: March 8, 1992
Item: Sheet of paper proclaiming Crackerjack Kid's "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence" a "place of fury." The name was to be registered in the Real Estate Register of Lebanon, but Crackerjack's address changed mysteriously during the netshake to Hanover, New Hampshire. The Lebanon Real Estate Register would not take the sheet so Crackerjack sent it to University of Iowa instead.
254
Name: H.R. Fricker
Address: CH-9043 Trogen, Switzerland
Date: March 8, 1992
Item: Correspondence: "I think that a networker congress should be more than just an exciting meetingplace for networkers. It should be a link to the whole society. We are experts in communication - personal communication. Maybe you would say that we are experts in 'spirit transfer.'"
255
Name: Steve Perkins
No Address
No Date
Item: "Networking Before and After" stampsheet.
256
Name: John Held Jr.
Address: 7919 Goforth, Dallas, Texas 75238
Date: April 9, 1992
Item: Correspondence about "Networker Writers Congress."
257
Name: Peter W. Kaufmann
Address: 8123 Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Date: April 5, 1992
Item: Congress data forms, an updated "Chronology of the World Wide Networker Congress 1992," and a "Support the DNC '92" poster.
258
Name: Bonnie Barreras
Address: 11205-B N.E. 49th St., Vancouver, Washington 98682
Date: May 7, 1992
Item: Correspondence pertaining to "Networker Databank Congress."
259
Name: Mary Ann Crowe
Address: PO Box 20840, Baltimore, Maryland 21209-0840
Date: April 30, 1992
Item: Correspondence, "Attended my first 'congress' at WPA in D.C. and am hoping to include one here during The Bauhouse exhibit."
260
Name: Reed Altemus
Fax #: 829-3666
Date: May 8, 1992
Item: Fax "About Network Myths and Communications Environments." Text reads in part: "It has always been the case that art networking or networking as art allowed for the possibility that 'you don't have to be there.' For myself, the novelty of networking as an alternative to social and political constraints of the geographic environment continues to be interesting. However, I find the organized and directional model of networking boring."
261
Name: Calum Selkirk
Address: PO Box 334, Bedford MK40 OYE, England
Date: May 27, 1992 (postmarked)
Item: Listing of NC92 in "Small World Press." Also sent copy art and correspondence; "The Stoke/FAT(uous) Congress was a weekend of high seriousness, but I didn't get a chance to chat with O.J.'s toilet."
262
Name: Kum Nam Baik
Address: Dept. of Industrial Design, Sung Kyun Kwan University, 3-53, Myungryun-dong, Chongro-Ku, Seoul 110-745, Korea
Date: May 2, 1992
Items: Two postcards
263
Name: Giovanni StraDaDa
Address: C.P. 271, 48100 Ravenna, Italy
Date: April 28, 1992
Item: photocopied announcement of Galleria Artestudio Sumithra's Networker Congress with scheduled discussions based on "The Psychology of the Networker." Date of Congress announced as Sunday, October 25, 1992. Organized by Rosetta Berardi and Giovanni Strada.
264
Name: Buzz Blurr
Address: 908 Main St., Gurdon, Arkansas 71743
Date: May 12, 1992
Items: Fax Congress Stampsheet with portraits of Rev. Ivan Stang, Daniel Plunkett, Ex-Posto Facto, John Held Jr., and Buzz Blurr. Also two newspaper articles from, Dallas Observer and Dallas Morning News which report the Fax Congress.
265
Name: Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay
Address: Sverdlova 175, Eysk, Russia
Date: March 19, 1992
Items: Two posters announcing an NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence, March 22, 1992, in Eysk. Correspondence from Rea states, "Yes, I fixed my session of Congress on March 22 in the Eysk Museum . It will be the concert of music by American composer Janecek and poetry by Russian poets living in Americaa plus a book exhibition of Chuck Welch, Miekal And, Liz Was, John Held, Crag Hill. There will be a Spirit Netlink Performance."
266
Name: Gilbertto Prado
Address: 4, Rue Merlin, 75011 Paris, France
Date: May 15, 1992
Items: Two computer generated awards for "Persons of Distinction" that show a photograph of the Compiegne Networker Congress of March 28, 1992. Half a stampsheet was sent with image of Globe and a "Connection" logo.
267
Name: Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay
Address: Sverdlova 175, Eysk, Russia
Date: February 2, 1992
Item: Correspondence reads, "The congresses? Mail artists from the West are afraid of the journey to our country and they have not been inviting us to visit them. We don't have money, but we can go if we receive a 'private invitation.' Serge and I will perform the March 22 spirit to spirit netlink. It is a very interesting idea."
268
Name: Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay Address: Sverdlova 175, Eysk, Russia
Date: April 17, 1992
Item: Correspondence reads in totality: "I send my description of performance according to your scheme plus some photos, poster, article in Eysk newspaper. Title is 'In Eysk, America, Italy ...' This article is about our 'Spirit Netlink Performance.' Duration of the concert was I.5 hour, performance - thirty min. (at the end of concert). Also, I wrote the article about this performance for Moscow newspaper 'Humanitarian Fund.' I think it will be published. I am sorry I cannot make copies of my description (in your entry form). Maybe you will make a copy and send it to Iowa? Now our postal costs are very expensive (in ten times more - again- that formerly)."
269
Name: Crackerjack Kid
Address: PO Box 978, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Date: March 28, 1992
Item: Correspondence to H.R. Fricker, "Your 'place of fury' in our Netahsker 'Spirit Netlink Performance' was apocalyptic. Indeed, as we invoked the twenty 'spirit' congressmen and women to perform through us, we fell into a fenzied spontaneous 'reading,' rather like SHAKEspearean or Fluxus theatre. 'Spirit Netlink' began with a large circle of empty chairs identified with spirit names. We succeeded in making an Interconnection with the ultimate of marginal network worlds -- the ethereal open network."
270
Name: Rachel Kopel
Address: PO Box 371375, San Diego, California 92137-1375
Date: April 29, 1992
Item: Postcard that states, "On Wednesday, April 29, 1992 Hollis Dixon and Rachel Kopel, two mail artists who had never met, and Hollis' friend, artist Lynn Wade, made a road trip to Pasadena, California to see the 'Freedom, International Mail Art Exhibition.' They are returning to San Diego filled with inspiration, addresses, and a determination to catch up on unfinished projects."
271
Name: Mogens Otto Nielsen
Address: Tylstrupvej a43, DK-9320, Hjallerup, Denmark
Date: April 22, 1992
Items: A large networker poster with collaborative statement including names of participants. Also sent a photocopy of Peter Laugesen with Mogens. Correspondence reads, "Enclosed some material from our 'WAAM Exhibition' in Arhus - the 22 of April we celebrated Earth Summit. Peter (Laugesen) read his poetry and I talked over ecological issues. We had a fine evening with 25 in the audience."
272
Name: Scott R. Kimball
Address: 66 School St., Apt. #1, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Date: April 1992
Items: Postcard, correspondence, and Networker Statement which reads, "Networking provides us with a global lab for observing the curious synchronicity by which 'high frequency' messages are often transmitted and received. By sending loads of insights and info to the 'outer' world, we also set ourselves up to receive them just when we need them most. Networking also allows us to enjoy and /or synergize with the intelligence of others, while remaining at a safe distance from their bad breath, bad habits etc."
273
Name: Peter Brandt
Address: Totenberg 58, D-5760 Arnsberg 1, Germany
Date: April 30, 1992
Item: A beautiful popup networker congress postcard.
274
Name: Mark Corroto
No Address
No Date
Item: "The Face of the Congress: A Portrait of the 1992 Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress," #2, Netlink Youngstown: Youngstown, Ohio (NOTE: See Netbank entry 199 for Issue #1, and entry 316 for Issue #3-4)
275
Name: Chuck Welch
No Address
No Date
Item: "Mail Art Network: Source and Flow," Real Life Magazine #21/22, 1991, p. 48-52. The first art magazine publication to list the Decentralized World Wide Networker Congress Invitation.
276
Name: The Armory Center for the Arts
Address: 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California 91103
Date: January 18, 1992 (postmarked)
Item: Postcard Invitation for "Freedom International Mail Art Exhibition," March 22-May 10, 1992, at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.
277
Name: Denis Mizzi
Address: c/ 34 Barnstaple Rd., Five Dock, Sydney, Australia
Date: April 14, 1992
Item: "Spirit Netlink Performance Sheet" from Mizzi describes his drug induced experience heaven and hell, "What happens when a world of colour turns grey? This is what I experienced. Devoid of colour it felt like living as if in the text of a blank book."
278
Names: Crackerjack Kid, Phantom Twin, and 'Rev.' Paul Summers
No Address
No Date
Item: "Timeless Capsule Burial" document, "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence": Lebanon, New Hampshire, March 22, 1992, 3 pp. Over 43 netshakers and their burial objects are listed in this Networker Metanet Congress document. 'Rev.' Paul Summers performed a cleansing and purification ritual behind Crackerjack Kid's house. Sixteen netshakers were present for the cold, March weather performance.
279
Name: Robin Mooore (Washington Project for the Arts)
Address: 400 7th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20004
No Date
Item: Invitation for "Pushing The Envelope: A Weekend of Events in Conjunction with the Decentralized Worldwide Networker Congress 1992," Dates of Congress: Sat., April 11 - Sunday, April 12, 1992. Coordinated by Robin Moore at Bookworks/WPA, Washington, D.C.
280
Name: Marcel Stussi
Address: Atelierhaus Klingental, Postfach 301, CH-4021 Basel, Switzerland
Date: April 22, 1992
Item: "Spirit Netlink Performance Sheet." Stussi performs from Atelier 201's telephone box, "At 17.45 o'clock telephone to the 'Milan Art Center ' in Milano, Italy, respectively to Ruggero Maggi (Date meta-net-congress). At intervals I make set to music and sound by a 16 mm movie (My window) - and in the evening in the streets is the end of carnival (saunter)."
281
Name: Marcel Stussi
Address: Atelierhaus Klingental, Postfach 301, CH-4021 Basel, Switzerland
Date: April 22, 1992
Items: Mailed an exhibition postcard and announcement, also a postcard photocopy of metanet communication on "Netshaker Harmonic Divergence Day" to Johannes W. Glaw, Gütersloh, Germany plus mail received on March 22 from Peter W. Kaufmann.
282
Name: Telenetlink Congress
Date: March 16, 1992
Item: Email message from (RATOS) Charles Francois, Liege, Belgium asking about connecting to RATOS during the Netshaker Harmonic Divergence on March 22, 1992. Also passed along from TAM (Ruud Janssen's BBS). Letter sent to Charles Francois from Crackerjack Kid (dated March 16, 1992). Letter from Charles Francois to Ruud Janssen, Tilburg, Holland February 14, 1992. Discussion about preparing congress documents of telecommunication sessions.
283
No Name
No Address
No Date
Item: Invitation for The NC92 Networker Databank Congress. Original sheet that was distributed by Crackerjack Kid to alternative culture networks in Fall 1991.
284
Name: JosŽ VdBroucke
Address: Pikkelstraat 49, B- 3540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Date: March 14, 1992
Item: Postcard, "For many people the mail-art network is the only channel to stay in touch with what is really happening on the inside of the outside. For many artists mail art networking is the only channel to stay in touch with other artistic people."
285
No Name
No Address
No Date
Item: Telenetlink Session between 'Rev.' Paul Summers, Crackerjack Kid and Phantom Twin in Hanover, with Richard Ellensbury, Krononaut extraordinaire! The telecommunications session occured around 10:00 P.M. on March 21, 1992, at the NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence.
286
Name: Piermario Ciani
Address: Via Latisana N.G, 33032 Bertiglo UD, Italy
Date: April 1992
Item: Color photocopy of the Networker Congress Stampsheet and "Networker Jazz."
287
Name: Calum Selkirk
Address: PO Box 334, Bedford MK40 3XN, England
Date: March 1992
Item: Two photocopies copies of an Institute of Fatuous Research cartoon animal. Correspondence reads, "Hi, hope the 'Fatuous' Congress will be somehow linked up to your own celebration. I have today written to O.Jason (from the Institute) discussing the possibility of a 'Netfeast.' I'll let you know how things get on."
288
Name: Graciela G. Marx
Address: Casilla de Correo 266, C.P. 1900, La Plata, Republica Argentina
No Date
Hoje Hoja Hoy, This February issue is devoted to spreading information in South America about the NC92 Spirit Netlink Performance and other metanet events of the Networker Congress year 1992.
289
Name: Peter Brandt
Address: Totenberg 58, D-5760 Arnsberg 1, Germany
Date: February 19, 1992
Item: Postcard
290
Name: Vittore Baroni
No Address
No Date
Item: Real Correspondence Zine, Near the Edge Productions: Viareggio, Italy, 4 pages. This issue features Baroni's "Mail Flue: Or A Few Things About Mail Art That I Have to Get Out of My System," and information about the "Meta-Concert (In Spirit)." Also, an original Italian version of Real Correspondence.
291
Name: JosŽ VdBroucke
Address: Pikkelstraat 49, B- 3540 Deerlijk, Belgium
Date: March 18, 1992
Item: Correspondence to Crackerjack Kid, postcards and photographs.
292
Name: Alex Cheek
Address: 650-G Rugby Row, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106
Date: March 22, 1992
Item: Postcard titled, "Celebrating the NC92 Netshaker Harmonic Divergence," and reads: "This day, the vernal equinox, heralds the beginning of spring. Ideally, today would herald a new birth of mail art, with Networkers of all kinds cooperating to ensure the global spread of new enlightenment and understanding. However, most Networkers remain fringe elements, isolated by political, economic, or social factors. So, within this Congress year, it is more important than ever for all Networkers to place less emphasis on spreading their own agendas and philosophies, and spend more time listening to what others are saying. Netcong 92 is my own promise to listen to new thoughts and voices from unexpected places."
293
Name: Reid Wood
Address: 271 Elm St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074
Date: March 21, 1992
Item: Correspondence and Reid Wood's Mail Art Show Invitation, "State of Being Celebrates Cohen's BRAIN CELL and Kustermann's Personal Deliver." Deadline: August 1, 1992.
294
Name: Calum Selkirk
Address: PO Box 334, Bedford MK40 3XN, England
Date: March 22, 1992
Items: Correspondence dated March 3, 1992. Correspondence indicates that Calum will be helping John Nicholson, editor of England 's "Small Press World" magazine, will be publishing articles (about the Networker Congress Year) collected from the Databank Congress and elsewhere. Also sent a "Dream Fragment" drawing completed during the morning of the Netshaker Harmonic Divergence. Image was of a woman giving birth to an elephant.