This form of creative communication followed the scientifically and industrial revolution that enabled the world wide mail service.

It took the nature of a rupture with the tradition of the artistic movements and art schools from the beginning of the century and even the ones after world wars.

Dadaist, futurist and surrealist artists like Schwitters and Duchamp joined the Mail art movement exchanging creative messages and points of view.

In the middle sixties, in South America, a lot of artistic activity took place between poets and publishing firms. Eduardo Antonio Vigo, Wlademir Diaz Pino, from Brasil, and Guillermo Deisler, from Chile, made history.

Through magazines, fanzines and exhibitions these mail artists obtained public visibility. In Italy and Sweden museums were founded to keep and show these peculiar works of art. Mail Art is a non - commercial and a non - consumer artistic form.

It has got a personalized character that opposes to mass-media artistic phenomena.

The Mail Art circuit agreed on certain principles. Each time there's a show all works received must be exhibited and will not be returned to senders.

A catalogue must be sent to participants in retribution for their creative effort. In any case should anyone profit from it.

There's a lot of freedom about techniques. When arriving its destiny works are enriched with paper and rubber stamps from sender and postmarks.

This kind of artistic expression values person -to-person communication and changes it into an art form.

It's a reaction to nowadays individual isolation and mass communication.

It's an expression of individual freedom and of the art itself as it has grown more and more into business.

"JAPAN" , is the theme proposed by ClubOtaku, Portugal. We want each artist to show us in their very own personal view what is Japan. We want to get on a trip all over the world, a trip full of images, movies, words, signs, and even sounds…

For more details, see regulations.