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Vittore Baroni (born 1956 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy), is an Italian mailartist, music critic and explorer of countercultures. Since the mid-1970s he has been one of the most active and respected promoters and documenters of mail art.[1]
He has written or edited various books on aspects of the “networking cultures” that anticipated the Internet, among which is the mail art guide book, Arte Postale.[2] He has also contributed to many of the seminal works about mail art published in recent decades, including Chuck Welch's Eternal Network,[3] H.R. Fricker's I am a Networker (Sometimes),[4] and Renaud Siegmann's Mail Art, Art postal - Art posté.[5]
In the past three decades he has organized many exhibitions, events, publications and collective projects in the fields of mail art, audio art, visual poetry, underground comics and street art, including 100 issues of Arte Postale! mail art magazine. He was the originator of formative networking projects such as the TRAX modular system (1981–1987)[citation needed], the multiple names Lieutenant Murnau and Luther Blissett, the Stickerman project and F.U.N. (Funtastic United Nations, since 2001).
He is based in Viareggio, Italy.
- ^ "Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the 21st Century". Time Out New York. Time Out New York. June 11–17, 2008. p. 1. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ Arte Postale- Guida al network della corrispondenza creativa, Vittore Baroni (AAA Edizioni, Bertiolo, 1997)
- ^ Eternal Network, A Mail Art Anthology, Chuck Welch (University of Calgary Press, 1995)
- ^ I am a Networker (Sometimes), H.R. Fricker (Verlag VEXER, 1989)
- ^ Mail Art, Art postal - Art posté, Renaud Siegmann (Éditions Alternatives, 2002)