R.F. Côté - Canada

R.F. Côté from Canada received one of the posters of Chinese Mail-Art as well. He cut out the chinese word for Mail-Art and collaged it onto some typical Chinese images. Sure looks cool. Maybe the search engines will pick this up with the words Chinese or China used often enough.

Remember that the goal of this mail-art research project is eventually to have some rel Chinese Mail-Artists sending and receiving mail-art as well. Not sure how long that will take. The chinese economy is booming. So the luxury called 'mail-art' isn't that far away.....

Latest results Google in China

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http://www.google.com/prc/report.html

So it seems certain functions of Google still are operational inside China.

China and Google

Not sure what the status is of Google in China.In the news the story moths ago was that Google withdraw its search engine from China, but I still have to research how the situation is in 'real digital life' inside China. Maybe someone out there has more details on this. Will try to find some good articles on the subject (maybe try the original Google search-engine to find this information...)

Singapore - getting closer

Hi Ruud, I googled the words "Singapore" "mail art" and found this...

http://www.instinc.com/instinc_/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=46

Singapore right next to China... Mail from Adamandia Kapsalis.

Nico van Hoorn - Netherlands

Nico van Hoorn (Netherlands) sent me this postcard. He is supporting the search for Chinese mail-Artists by placing the Chinese Word for "Mail-Art on his outgoing post. It is a start to make this accessible for China as well. Where are all those Chinese Mail-Artists? It is the largest country and we don't have any connecyions yet. hat should change. They learn english there too, so that isn't the problem. This project lasts as long as the moment Chinese Mail-Atists are visible in out network.