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Subject: Call for Fax/Mail Art: An Act of Resistance:Making Community(ies) Hello cybertribe::: I'm involved in this thing. Thought that some of you might wanna contribute your wisdom, creativity and community building!! Peaceout, Jeremy (eeyore) {ne-raver, IDM-er}

quoted 1 line FAX ART should be faxed to 617.451.2910 between October 5 and 23.

>>>>>>FAX ART should be faxed to 617.451.2910 between October 5 and 23.

Art work is being solicited for the Mail and Fax Art portion of an exhibition called _An Act of Resistance: Making Community(ies)_ at Boston's Mobius Gallery October 6-23. All mail and fax art concerning the show's theme will be shown. Artwork by "nonartists" is especially encouraged! Mail art can be in any form, size or shape and should be sent to: Arts/Resist Mail Art, P. O. Box 1136, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02142. There is no "deadline" persay. ALL mail rec'd during the show dates will be put in the gallery. Try to get it to us by the oepning date, so the maximum number of people can see it. FAX ART should be faxed to 617.451.2910 between October 5 and 23. The organizers encourage sending fax art during the show's opening reception Wednesday, October 6, from 5 to 8 pm Eastern US time. Mail and Fax art are part of a democratic, decentralized, global "networker" movement that seeks to link people and ideas on a grassroots level through direct exchange. Mobius is located at 354 Congress St in Boston's Fort Point Channel district, near the South Station stop on the red line. The juried portion of the exhibition features work by many New England artists engaged with political activism and is sponsored by the RESIST Foundation. RESIST, begun in 1967 to help fund the growing movement opposed to the Vietnam War, is celebrating its 25th anniversary of funding small, grassroots, social change organizations. For more information: On Mail/Fax Art contact 617-242-2442 or Internet <jeremias@mit.edu>. On show details: Mobius: 617-542-7416. On RESIST call 617-623-5110 Thanks in advance for your contribution(s)! Jeremy Grainger for the ARTS/RESIST organizing committee <jeremias@mit.edu> PS: Here's a listing of related events for those of you in the area. The juried show includes work by: Anonymous, Joe Briganti, Buffalo Gals, Annete Dupon, Lydia Eccles, Roberta Hayes, Anne Rocheleau, Ellen Shub, Sarah Slive, Karen Kimmel and the Dispersion Project. Wednesday, October 6, 5- 8 pm - Opening reception Gallery Talk by Buffalo Gals who will give a short presentation on their current art campaign to prevent installation of commercial-ridden televisions on the "T," the Boston subway. Thursday, October 14, 8 pm - "Art that netWORKS" a talk by Chuck Welsh (aka net artist, the CrackerJack Kid), editor of the forthcoming anthology _The Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology_, due from the Univ. of Calgary Press next Spring. Friday, October 15, 8 pm - Video and film presentations by social cahnge group's which have received funding from RESIST. Saturday, October 16, 8 pm - An Evening of Haitian Culture with food, music and more. Coordinated by one of the juried artists, Roberta Hayes, whose work documents the Haitian refugee community in the area.