Fax art

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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) {{ISBN|978-1-84150-062-1}}. Found at [https://books.google.com/books?id=tuYcXt71fTQC&dq=%22fax+art%22+-wikipedia+-video&pg=PA100 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) {{ISBN|978-0-262-03328-2}}. Found at [https://books.google.com/books?id=ri36wNZoqVkC&dq=%22fax+art%22+-wikipedia+-video&pg=PT286 Google Books]. Accessed October 7, 2010.

Fax art was first transmitted in 1980, but that was not documented until 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: [http://andrechahil.com/wien-1985-phaenomen-fax-art-beuys-warhol-und-higashiyama-setzen-dem-kalten-krieg-ein-zeichen 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 [http://korourke.pagesperso-orange.fr/karen/publications.html Karen O'Rourke's website]. This article is cited extensively, see, [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22O%27Rourke%22+%2B+%22Notes+on+Fax-Art%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CJBaoxGiuTKSLIJuqgASQufHXAgAAAKoEBU_QaBLw Google search] and [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22O'Rourke%22%20%2B%20%22Notes%20on%20Fax-Art%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws 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) {{ISBN|978-0-472-06810-4}}, found at [https://books.google.com/books?id=za3J9pFssNEC&dq=%22fax+art%22+-wikipedia+-video&pg=PA58 Google Books]. All accessed October 7, 2010.