MeyerBros

Dada Mail, the open-source list-management software we use at New World (and are looking at for MMA) is not a software app. That’s right. Computer software is the medium, Dada Mail is an art project.

“Readymade” concept art along the lines of Duchamp’s Fountain (signed urinal) - only not readymade. Built from scratch by an artist with little to no programming experience - this art piece is a medium of it’s own - providing (unlike a painting, say) eveything but the content.

Originally titled Mojo Mail, the name was changed to avoid a trademark infringment law suit from MOJO Mail - a silly idea since artwork is “titled” not “named” in the trademark sense. Any title may be used and reused by any artist. I wonder how long that will last. Will the trademark craze grow to the point where artists are fighting legal battles over titles, or will the new open-source e-wave win out? o, what fun.

i was just reading a play over at Charles Mee dot Org when i suddenly finished reading it and followed a link of his to somewhere and then to Illegal Art dot Org.

Charles Mee is one of my inspirations in thinking that just maybe Copywrite/right/rite is overdone and has a tendancy to hurt artists more than it might help them sometimes. PROGRAM NOTE: Charles Mee’s work is made possible by the support of Richard B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher. And I think that’s great. And I think, being an artist, I would like to be paid. I would like for my work to be made possible. In the meantime I’m going to do it anyway. Impossible Art.

But you really should - and I would like you to - very carefully - turn off your pop-up blocking software and follow THIS LINK.