Index: Tentatively a Convenience
Biography
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE aka Mike Film aka Tim Ore aka id ntity aka E G Head aka "Moms" Brutus aka Monty Cantsin aka Karen Eliot aka Luther Blissett aka anonymous aka David A. Bannister aka Ern Malley aka Party Teen on Couch #2 aka RATical aka Alan Smithee aka spRATacus aka tANGO, aLPHA cHARLIE aka 1/2 of "Who is like God?s" aka Shayn Fargesn, etc.. Born September 4, 1953EV, died September 3, 1953 EV. Never liked the term "Mail Art", preferred "P.I.N.-U.P." (Postal Interaction Network - Underground Participant). 1st postal networking project: "Mike Film": 46,800 frames of super-8 film distributed internationally starting in 1978 with participants reporting on what they did with it - still in progress 35 years later. Originally based in BalTimOre, us@ - now based in Pittsburgh, us@. Purpose in life: realization of Psychopathfinding through Undermining 'Reality" Maintenance Traps through selective application of motto: "Anything is Anything". At peak of correspondence, 1400 people/groups about whom I kept files so that I could keep track of what we sent each other & what everyone's shifting identities & locations were. Secret Shopper for Trickster Culture.
Links
http://www.thing.de/projekte/7%3A9%23/tent_index.html
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/moving-images/
http://accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.dk/2012/02/his-name-is-not-legend-its-tentatively.html