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Baroni discusses his beginnings as a stamp and correspondence artist and Arte Postale. He mentions collaborative texts for a CD and floppy dics, and a book project in 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...

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Baroni's son is photographed next to a copy-art work with Vittore pictured at 3 showing a very strong resemblance. The background is the Baroni library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The background for the collage is a photocopied newspaper article that describes Baroni's mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rubberstamped "Art Abject - Tabu - Lieutenant Murnau." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rubberstamped "Art Abject - Tabu - Lieutenant Murnau." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Five prints referred to in book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni publishes the response to questions posed to correspondence artists concerning avant garde art and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title WMI? made from cut colored paper collaged onto the cards and tickets at the bottom of the collage appears to be an acronym for Who aM I? with the response being Baroni's memberships and photos. The collage is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages consist of search engine printouts of visual poetry on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Additional names involved: deAraujo A ; Figallo T ; Smith WJ ; Lora-Totino A ; Bohn W.