E-mail art

E-mail art (sometimes called "Electronic Mail Art") is simply any kind of art sent by e-mail. It includes computer graphics, animations, sceensavers, digital scans of artwork in other media, or even ASCII art. When exhibited, e-mail art can be either displayed on a computer screen or similar type of display device, or the art can be printed out and displayed.

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Electronic - Mail - E-mail - Computer graphics - Animation - Scan - Artwork - ASCII art - Exhibited

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There is an ongoing debate among some artists as to just what the relationship of e-mail art to mail art should be considered to be. In addition to questions about whether this is even a valid or meaningful genre of art, as clearly almost any kind of digital-based art can be e-mailed, thus making it into "e-mail art," has been particular criticism of e-mail art by tradition-minded mail artists when the e-mail art has been perceived to be akin to mass media. Other criticisms of e-mail art from a mail artist's perspective have focused on the lack of dimensionality of the attachment, the lack of intimacy as opposed to real mail http://www.vorticeargentina.com.ar/escritos/critical_notes_about_email_art.html.

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Mail art - Mass media

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Many of the criticisms overlap those levelled against the Internet and World Wide Web in general.

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Internet - World Wide Web

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Some artists have also collaborated by sending e-mail attachments back and forth, a process known as Photoshop Tennis; the surrealist game of exquisite corpse has also been adapted to e-mail. (These have been paralled by collective musical compositions done by e-mailhttp://www.artnet.com.br/~pmotta/mailmus.htm.)

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Photoshop Tennis - Surrealist - Exquisite corpse

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