Fax art is
art specifically designed to be sent or transmitted by a
facsimile machine, where the "fax art" is the received "fax". It is also called telecommunications art or telematic art.[1] According to art historians Annmarie Chandler and
Norie Neumark, "Fax art was another means of mediating distances".[2]
Fax art was first transmitted in 1980, but that was not documented until 1985.[2] On January 12, 1985,
Joseph Beuys together with
Andy Warhol and the Japanese artist
Kaii Higashiyama participated in the "Global-Art-Fusion" project, a fax art project initiated by the conceptual artist
Ueli Fuchser, in which a fax was sent with drawings of all three artists within 32 minutes around the world – from
Düsseldorf (Germany) via New York (US) to Tokyo (Japan), received at
Vienna's Palais Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art. This fax was a statement of peace during the
Cold War in the 1980s.[3] The earliest scholarly note of fax art in
art history was in 1990 by
Karen O'Rourke.[4]
^Stuart Mealing, Computers and art, pp. 100-102 (Intellect Books, 2002)
ISBN978-1-84150-062-1. Found at
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abAnnmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark, At a distance: precursors to art and activism on the Internet, p. 267. (MIT Press, 2005)
ISBN978-0-262-03328-2. Found at
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^Karen O'Rourke, "Notes on 'Fax-Art'", New Observations N° 76 (New York, May–June 1990), pp.24-25. See
Karen O'Rourke's website. This article is cited extensively, see,
Google search and
Google Scholar search, e.g., Eduardo Kac, Telepresence & bio art: networking humans, rabbits, & robots, n. 69, p. 58, (Studies in literature and science) (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
ISBN978-0-472-06810-4, found at
Google Books. All accessed October 7, 2010.
Bibliography
Tapani Aartomaa, Kari Piippo, Taideteollinen korkeakoulu. Graafisen suunnittelun laitos, Fax art: just now (Canon, 1992)
ISBN978-951-96562-0-5. See
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