Ruud Janssen (b. Tilburg July 29, 1959) is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands. Tilburg is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant. ... July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. ...

Ruud Janssen studied Physics and Mathematics. He became active with mail art in 1980 and did several international mail art projects. From 1994 till 2001 he has conducted interviews with Fluxus and mail artists in different communication forms; the results have been published in booklets and on the internet since 1996. In later years he focused more on acrylic painting and individual correspondences. He always maintains his site with the latest details of his work. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Git Up!, Acrylic painting of Muhammad Ali vs. ...

Janssen publishes articles, magazines and booklets with his TAM-Publications and participates in international mail art projects, collaborations and exhibitions. He founded IUOMA (International Union of Mail-Artists) in 1988 and is also the curator of the TAM-Rubberstamp Archive, the result of a Mail Art collection that has been accumulated by him from 1983 to 2004. The archive contains prints, original rubberstamps, magazines and literature. In 1994 he started with his Mail-interviews which have been published as booklets and online. The interviews have a new concept where the question is sent in a specific communicationform and the interviewed person chooses his own way to get the answer back. This way the factor time is involved in each specific interview. Samples of interviewed persons are: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins, Ken Friedmann, Anna Banana, Mark Bloch, Patricia Tavenner, Michael Leigh and Guy Bleus. Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... In 1994 Ruud Janssen from the Netherlands started with his mail-interviews. ... Raymond Edward Johnson (1927 - 1995) was an important post-Surrealism, pre-Pop collage artist. ... Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a poet and early Fluxus artist. ... For the French historian and founder of the Annales school, see Marc Bloch Mark Bloch (born January 23, 1956), also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Since 1982 he has lived in New... Michael Leigh is an artist, based in Cheshire, England and working mainly in the area of mail art. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 2003 Ruud Janssen founded together with Litsa Spathi the Fluxus Heidelberg Center for which they are building up a collection of Fluxus material and where they also publish their own works. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Litsa Spathi (born 1958) is a Greek painter, performer and fluxus artist, currently living in Heidelberg, Germany. ... Fluxus Heidelberg Center was founded by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen. ...

External links

• Official site of Ruud Janssen, IUOMA and TAM-Publications.
• Fluxus Heidelberg Center
• TAM-Rubberstamp Archive Site
• Ruud Janssen's blog
• Ruud Janssen's online Portfolio
• The-artists.org