Mark Bloch Visual Artwork

• Have a look at The M'Brú Brú Box, a multi-media work from 1992-4, now in the collection of The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach.
• See Nine Famous Venetians, nine collaged boxes I made during my 2006 residency in Venice, Italy with The Emily Harvey Foundation.
• See Venice 2006: Everything Right a large collage work-in-progress inspired by my 2006 residency in Venice, Italy and related to Nine Famous Venetians.
• See Electronically Generated Collages I made as part of a collaboration with Xona of Greenfield, Massachusetts.
• See Flash presentation I made at ABCNews about the Balkans from pre-history to 2000.
• See Maps of Israel and Palestine I made at ABCNews.
• See my portfolio as a graphic designer.
• The One World Postal Art Show featuring hundreds of artists from around the world.

Mark Bloch Multimedia Artwork

• Read about Panscan TV, my weekly television show on Channel 67 at Midnight Tuesday nights.
• The Performances of Mark Bloch by Isabel Ochone.
• Read about Mass Mediocrity my first perfromance art piece at Kent State University in May 1978.
• Read my Panmag 57 e-Newsletter, with news of events, performances and exhibitions from Summer 08.
• Read about the Fake Ray Johnson Weekend, Columbus Ohio, September 15-18, 2000.

Early Cyber-space and Communication art by Mark Bloch

• NEW Mark Bloch's Notes on Teleconferencing from 1991which was intended for Cracker Jack's book on mail art Networking Currents. It forecasts the fusion of mail art and the internet.
• Mark Bloch's early forays into cyberspace and the first mail art message boards: Mark Bloch interviewed by Honoria.
• The enormous Panscan E-poem collaboration.
  (November 3, 1990 to January 11, 1995)
• An article about the mail art network and the Internet and their parallel development from New Observations Magazine.

Mark Bloch Writings -Reviews, Theory and Baseball

• Read a review of Ray Johnson in White Hot Magazine.
• Read a review of Wallace Berman and his Circle in White Hot Magazine.
• Read a review of Genesis P-Orridge in White Hot Magazine.
• Read a review of Jack Kerouac Papers at New York Public Library in White Hot Magazine.
• Read a review of Zen Figure Painting in White Hot Magazine.
• Proud Mary and the Internal Network- how anything innovative gets eaten by the big Pop Culture Machine.
• Bloch's theory of the The Art of Storàge.
• Download issue #52 of my magazine Panmag (559 K) which is all about my theory of The Art of Storàge.
• See a 1997 article about The History of the Cleveland Indians for ESPN.com.
• Read a 1998 article for ABCNews in about the art of Baseball Card Defacing.
• Download The Collaborations of Robert Delford Brown- Panmag #51 (1853 K)
• Read about giving the art word to the art world: The Word Strike.
• Information on Mark Bloch, Ray Johnson, Carlo Pittore, Bern Porter, Mail Art, other quaint Avant Garde artforms of the 20th Century and the PANMODERN era
• Proud Mary and the Internal Network- how anything innovative gets eaten by the big Pop Culture Machine.
• My Blog- The Panmodern Feedback Loop with information on Fluxus, Diffusion of innovation theory, Mail Art, other quaint Avant Garde artforms of the 20th Century and the PANMODERN era.

Writings on Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009) by Mark Bloch

• Remembering the late Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009)
• Download a PDF about Stockhausen's ORIGINALE in which Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009) appeared when it was performed at the 2nd Avant Garde Festival in 1964.
• Download a PDF about The first Saturday Night Live-related movie MISTER MIKE'S MONDO VIDEO in which Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009) appeared.
• BUY IT NOW Order a copy of the book, Robert Delford Brown: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics about the late Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009) by Mark Bloch.
• Read an interview with Robert Delford Brown on the 1950s art world in White Hot Magazine.

Writings on Ray Johnson (1927-1995) by Mark Bloch

• Read a review of Ray Johnson in White Hot Magazine.
• A text explaining how Mark Bloch came to do Ray Johnson research.
• A story Mark Bloch wrote about Ray Johnson for ABCNews.com.
• An interactive clickie thing Mark Bloch wrote and designed about Ray Johnson's death for ABCNews.com.
• An interactive clickie thing Mark Bloch wrote and designed about Ray Johnson's artwork for ABCNews.com.
• An illustrated biography of artist Ray Johnson by Mark Bloch.
• Some reflections by Mark Bloch on the death of Ray Johnson.
• A panel discussion about Ray Johnson with Knight Landesman of Artforum; Chuck Close, artist; Jill Johnston, critic; Richard Feigen, dealer, Mark Bloch, multi-media artist.
• Mark Bloch answers the question, "Who WAS the first Pop artist, anyway?
  

Mail art, Correspondence art, Communication art by Mark Bloch

• NEW The 1984 Open Letter to The Network by H.R. Fricker and Mark Bloch about how to improve mail art communications.
• Read about a chat I did with Serbian mail artist Andrej Tisma ten years ago when the NATO bombs were dropping and I was working for ABCNews.com
• A look back at the informal appraisal of Mail Art history banged out before a recent panel discussion at the Center for Book Arts.
• An interview with Mark Bloch about his activities in the mail art network.
• A Conversation with Johnny Boy about what I have been doing with myself the last 17 years.
• The 1984 Franklin Furnace Fracas which pitted mail artists against the Art World. (The Art World blinked.)
• A Review of Some Mail Art Zines - Circa 1986. Here are some cool self-published zines from the Network.
• See various examples of Artistamps or Artist's Postage Stamps I have issued via PANPOST.
• The endless parade of meaningless decentralized mail art congresses inspired me to send out this list of questions for mail artists to answer before attending yet another questionable gathering in 1992.
• The Mailing of the Hatfield Rooster by Bloch and Bernard Banville (Xona)
• MAIL ART What it is, how to do it and why A Book about Mail Art by Mark Bloch
• An article about mail art that appeared in the Houston Chronical
• One of the very first mail art shows to appear on the Internet, The One World Mail Art Show. was originally supposed to be about the United Nations but they renegged.
• The responses of mail artists to a Questionnaire about the Anthrax Scare.
• A brief History of Mail Art.
• An article about the mail art network and the Internet and their parallel development from New Observations Magazine.

The Ugly Truth About Neoism by Mark Bloch

• Read about giving the art word to the art world: The Word Strike.
• The truth about Neoism.
• Remembering a 1989 watershed moment: Notes from a Festival of Plagiarism.
• Everyday experiences I had in Glasgow, Scotland in 1989 that felt like art.

Carlo Pittore (1943-2005) and Bern Porter (1911-2004) by Mark Bloch

• Some thoughts about The Life and Mail Art of Carlo Pittore
• All about Carlo Pittore on this site and others.
• Carlo Pittore and the Franklin Furnace Fracas with Dr. Ronny Cohen.
• See a review of Carlo Pittore's paitings in Art in America
• Bern Porter interview and brief bio by Mark Bloch
• Bern Porter and his remarkable career in an interview with Phil Nurenberg.
• Download a MSWord press release about the event October 17, 2004.
• Download a TEXT ONLY press release about the event October 17, 2004.
• See a poster of the October 17, 2004. event.
• Download a copy of the Bern Porter text, The Last Acts of Saint Fuck You as a PDF here.
  

Tributes to other remarkable artists you should know about by Mark Bloch

• Remembering Peggy Dye (1943-2007), an important and powerful African-American writer and activist.
• Remembering Tom Little (1955-2006), a wonderful painter and master printmaker.
• Art by The Chief- Does anybody know where Dennis Miller is?
• St. Simeon Stylites- I found this text after it was decided to name my son Simon.

Music by Mark Bloch

• Read my interview with the late, legendary Soft Machine bassist and songwriter Hugh Hopper.
• R.I.P. Drummer Pip Pyle (1950-2006)
• Fresh Air- - An audio documentary about a radio show on WKSU-FM that I was involved with in the mid-1970s.
• A few John Cage quotes that I like.
• Johanna Went was the most awesome performance artist in the world. She blew my mind. Then this.
• My Life as a (not) Punk - Something was in the air in the mid-70s.
• My Drum Teacher - Jerry Borden taught me to play the drums in Cleveland when I was a kid.
• The 70s Progressive rock-jazz group Hatfield and the North played a rare gig at the Bowery Poetry Club in 2006.