ABSTRACT
In 1971, the artist Jarosaw Kozowski and the art critic Andrzej Kostoowski invented the NETa global network of artists who wanted to exchange thoughts, artworks, letters, articles, books, catalogues, postcards, journals, pictures, photographs, photocopies, etc. This was the first endeavor of this type in the Eastern bloc. Over the course of more than a dozen years, a few hundred people from both Eastern and Western Europe, the US and Canada, Latin America, and Asia, along with a few from Israel, Australia, and New Zealand, participated in this initiative. There were also some institutions or quasi-institutions on the roster, artist's groups and alternative magazines, such as Ovum 10 published by the Uruguayan Clemente Padin. He organized two shows that featured East European artists among others: Exposicion de la Nueva Poesia and Festival de la Postal Creativa, both at his Gallery U in Montevideo.
