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.Stuart Mealing, Computers and art, pp. 100-102 (Intellect Books, 2002) . Found at Google Books. Accessed October 7, 2010. According to art historians Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, "Fax art was another means of mediating distances".Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark, At a distance: precursors to art and activism on the Internet, p. 267. (MIT Press, 2005) . Found at Google Books. Accessed October 7, 2010.
In Brazil, the first artistic fax transmission was made between Paulo Bruscky in Recife and Roberto Sandoval in São Paulo on October 31, 1980; documentation of the transmission was exhibited at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in 1985. 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.Andre Chahil: Wien 1985: Phänomen Fax-Art. Beuys, Warhol und Higashiyama setzen dem Kalten Krieg ein Zeichen. The earliest scholarly note of fax art in art history was in 1990 by Karen O'Rourke.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) , found at Google Books. All accessed October 7, 2010.
See also ASCII art Computer art Digital art Email art Interactive art Internet art Hank Magnuski New media art Systems art Telematic art Faxlore
References Notes
Bibliography Tapani Aartomaa, Kari Piippo, Taideteollinen korkeakoulu. Graafisen suunnittelun laitos, Fax art: just now (Canon, 1992) . See Google Books Urbons Klaus, Elektrografie - Analoge und digitale Bilder, (Köln (DE), DuMont Buchverlag, 1994) Andrej Tišma, International Fax Art Project (VLV Gallery, 1995) See Google Books
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