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What was your interaction with PhotoStatic? We’d be interested to know, and we’d like to record here which past contributors to the PhotoStatic projects have paid a visit to this site, and further, we would like to offer them this space to offer their opinions. Use this <add> link to add your observations, criticisms, personal updates, or anything you’d care to share with the PhotoStatic community.
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I'm thrilled you're archiving one of my favorite zines online! I appeared in issue #36 and #37 as Pandora's Mailbox. I have a new project now called The Green Thing.
renegade <renegade@luxomedia.com>
san francisco, usa - 05/14/05 08:47:48 PDT
last night i found my copy of photostatic magazine issue no. 25/26, august 1987. it was like finding an old, long lost friend. sure was a fun zine. some real artwork gems by lloyd dunn and others. nice document for it's time. some macpaint graphics are evident, but mostly pre computer works of text and art. i'm sure i have other issues. i'm going back to the garage to look for more.
patrickt <joeyknow@aol.com>
oakland, ca
02/13/03 18:38:47 PST
nice work on that intro by tom hibbard
tom hibbard <thib@prodigy.net>
hartland, wi usa
12/03/02 19:17:15 PST
[n]o more violence or surveillance;
only ‘information,’ secret virulence, chain reaction, slow
implosion and simulacra of spaces where the real-effect
again comes into play. We are witnessing the end of
perspective and panoptic space
As humans communicate through this medium and exchange cultural signs, some problematic issues should be raised. Indeed, the human being has to decompose himself as a collection of transmissible and immediately understandable signs in order to be communicable, and this drift can be seen today in personal Web pages or electronic mail communications. The self is mutilated and disintegrated into conventional signs, in a deeper and much more dramatic way than oral communication. The success of the Web goes with its semantic poverty, and is heading toward some “zero degree” of communication. The Entropy Principle warns us that we are converging towards a stable state where everyone will be connected and fully informed of a homogeneous and therefore null content.
Which brings us back to question of a possible ‘Infocide’, or, to update Habermas on this one, to the question regarding a structural erosion of the public sphere, where the individual and also the academic user stands up to the neck in cybertrash, no longer being able to differentiate between “real” information and white backgroud noise in the channel. Welcome to the next level …
And Welcome to the Web Photo-Staticians !
Karen Elliot
October 30, 2002, 00:59:11 PST
yes, i’m very happy to see PhotoStatic documented on-line because it shows the creativity in the 80’s, visual poetry & mail-artcommunities worldwide touched & influenced each other through all the -isms (neoism, plagiarism, tourism, artstrike to networking to e-mailart, networked art now) ,
i contributed to issue 25/26 which was a “Networking” issue & it still gives you a good idea what was going on in the Networks at that time.
I think we are all still out there (& online) now (see the Second Wave exhibit, the Ray retrospective & Fake ray Weekend in columbus, OH,in 2000 ) and we must document the 80‘s & 90’s because the “art historians” will only market the 60‘s & 70’s.
The second & third wave of mail-artists was not a transitional phase but some things really happened … & it’s great to show this research to scholars, poetryfans, interested weirdo’s & avant-garde lovers & future mail-artedists & networkers!
i will end with this again : “in the spirit of mailart as a social spirit”
(D.B.Chirot & Luc Fierens )
Luc Fierens <fierens.mailart@belgacom.net>
Weerde, BELGIUM
October 28, 2002, 10:50:52 PST
good to find the magazine online — “cactus” is still going long after being inspired by your magazine and the others at the Festival of Plagiarism in Glasgow … Putting together our last issue now, time to put it to sleep, but plenty of new projects growing from it’s roots …
cheers tony
Tony <tony@cactusnetwork.org.uk>
London
September 9, 2002, 08:21:03 PDT
Under the given URL http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~francis/txt/copyright/ You may find a German-language hypertext on "copyleft in art and copyright in popculture" also featuring a section on Lloyd Dunn and Tape-beatles …
best greetings,
francis <francis@hgb-leipzig.de>
June 1, 2002, 03:28:33 PDT
Good to see this re-surfacing of what was truely an on-the-curve activity back in the 80‘s — I‘m proud to have been a participant at that time. As a teacher of “networking and creativity”, recalling examples from the cassette underground, the mail art network, and activities like photostatic gives students the impetus to take art, community, and life into their own hands and go for it!
Thanks! John.
John Hopkins <jhopkins@uiah.fi>
nomadic
January 26, 2002, 08:18:41 PST
The thought has finally crystallized out of a slurry of anxious twitches and delighted spasms: Lloyd Dunn has finally been swept into a new dimension: a strange place fusing the internet and the past. Living now in Prague, his daily dose of ancient architecture must provide the perfect complement to his rich unfolding of digital material.
I am glad to have been given an opportunity to contribute some Bionic Codes and an article to PSRF half a decade ago ("Swarm Intelligence"). It is encouraging to know that a digital piece of that work may be coursing through Prague in the near future, not so much for any continued distribution, but for the sheer Lloydishness of the process of expressing, archiving, and retrofuturising the calamity of it all.
Swarm on, friends.
Ebon Fisher <ebon@olulo.net>
New York, NY
January 23, 2002, 14:30:20 PST
Am I missing something here, I can't seem to get into any of the issues except the last one?!!
Steve <perkinss@uwgb.edu>
Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
January 23, 2002, 09:21:04 PST
(Apparently you missed the part where we explain that the issues will appear one at a time over the space of several years. Chalk it up to the time-consuming nature of satisfactorily converting old xeroxed paste-ups into sleek, modern PDF files. — Ed.)
My feelings towards PHOTOSTATC magazine? Ever since Lloyd Dunn began sending Mail-Art & PHOTOSTATIC Magazizne to me I have been impressed. The group of individuals who assisted Lloyd in this fine publication were committed in publishing a valid structured magazine. The graphic imagery and acompanied text were well thought out & presented a unique view of the world. Lloyd even copied my Mail-Art works for me in Iowa & sent them BACK to me here in California! FORGET Kinko’s Lloyd did an INCREDIBLE job on ALL fronts! KEEP Love & Pizza alive! — — A.F.
Arturo ‘Mozzarella’ Fallico <arturino@earthlink.net>
Windy hills of Saratoga, California, US
January 21, 2002, 13:40:11 PST
This is only a test. Please disregard and get on with your commenting.
The Editor <ll@detritus.net>
Prague, Czech Republic
January 20, 2002, 12:31:58 PST
