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===Other media=== [[File:Kairan MAZine(2007).jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Kairan'' mail art zine, edited by Gianni Simone, a.k.a. Johnnyboy, 2007]] In addition to appropriating the postage stamp model, mail artists have assimilated other design formats for printed artworks. Artists' books, decobooks and [[friendship book]]s, banknotes, stickers, tickets, artist trading cards (ATCs), badges, food packaging, diagrams, and maps have all been used. Mail artists routinely mix media; [[collage]] and [[photomontage]] are popular, affording some mail art the stylistic qualities of [[pop art]] or Dada. Mail artists often use collage techniques to produce original postcards, envelopes, and work that may be transformed using copy art techniques or computer software, then photocopied or printed out in limited editions. [[Printed matter]] and [[ephemera]] are often circulated among mail artists, and after artistic treatment, these common items enter into the mail art network.<ref name="UB" /> Small assemblages, sculptural forms, or found objects of irregular shapes and sizes are parceled up or sent unwrapped to deliberately tease and test the efficiency of the postal service. Mailable fake fur ("Hairmail") and [[Astroturf]] postcards were circulated in the late 1990s.<ref name="WaPo">{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/29107129.html?dids=29107129:29107129&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30%2C+1998&author=Belle+Elving&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=PUSHING+THE+ENVELOPE&pqatl=google | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131162124/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/29107129.html?dids=29107129:29107129&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30,+1998&author=Belle+Elving&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=PUSHING+THE+ENVELOPE&pqatl=google | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 31, 2013 | title=Pushing The Envelope | author=Elving, Bell | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=April 30, 1998}}</ref> Having borrowed the notion of [[intermedia]] from Fluxus, mail artists are often active simultaneously in several different fields of expression. Music and [[sound art]] have long been celebrated aspects of mail art, at first using cassette tape, then on CD and as sound files sent via the Internet.<ref name="CoxWarner2004">{{cite book|author1=Christoph Cox|author2=Daniel Warner|title=Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA60|date=1 September 2004|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-1615-5|pages=60β}}</ref> [[Performance art]] has also been a prominent facet, particularly since the advent of mail art meetings and congresses. Performances recorded on film or video are communicated via DVD and movie files over the internet. Video is also increasingly being employed to document mail art shows of all kinds.<ref name=mailartforum>{{cite web|title=The Techniques|url=http://www.mail-art.de/frame.php?dir=about:about_techniques&doc=start.htm|work=Mail-Art: The Forum|access-date=23 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235904/http://www.mail-art.de/frame.php?dir=about:about_techniques&doc=start.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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