Fax art

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]

'E-Pêle-Mêle' ('Fax Art'), a 1997 piece of fax art by the Belgian artist Guy Bleus

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]

See also

• ASCII art
• Computer art
• Digital art
• Email art
• Interactive art
• Internet art
• Hank Magnuski
• New media art
• Systems art
• Telematic art
• Faxlore