In 1994 Dutch mail artist Ruud Janssen

Ruud Janssen

Ruud Janssen is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.Ruud Janssen studied Physics and Mathematics. He became active with mail art in 1980 and did several international mail art projects...

 began a series of mail-interviews, the body of which are now recognized as an influential contribution in the field of mail art

Mail art

Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art...

. He interviewed Fluxus

Fluxus

Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...

 and Mail-Art personalities by using all the communication-forms that were available (Fax, E-Mail, Envelope, Personal Meeting, Telephone Call). The question travelled by one form and the answer could be sent back in another form. This concept

Concept

The word concept is used in ordinary language as well as in almost all academic disciplines. Particularly in philosophy, psychology and cognitive sciences the term is much used and much discussed. WordNet defines concept: "conception, construct ". However, the meaning of the term concept is much...

resulted in a series of mail-interviews. These interviews were published in booklet-form and the complete texts are also available online at www.iuoma.org/.. In 2008 a selection of the mail-interviews were published in bookform.