Fax art is

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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. 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 a
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Accessed October 7, 2010. Fax art was first transmitted in 1980, but that was not documented until 1985. On January 12, 1985,

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...

together with

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and the Japanese artist

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese writer and artist particularly renowned for his Nihonga style paintings. As one of the most popular artists in post-war Japan, Higashiyama was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1956 and the Order of Culture in 1969. Biograph ...

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

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(Germany) via New York (US) to Tokyo (Japan), received at

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's Palais Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art. This fax was a statement of peace during the

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in the 1980s.Andre Chahil
''Wien 1985: Phänomen Fax-Art. Beuys, Warhol und Higashiyama setzen dem Kalten Krieg ein Zeichen.''
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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. Se
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''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 a
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References

Notes Bibliography * Tapani Aartomaa, Kari Piippo, Taideteollinen korkeakoulu. Graafisen suunnittelun laitos, ''Fax art: just now'' (Canon, 1992) {{ISBN, 978-951-96562-0-5. Se
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* Urbons Klaus, ''Elektrografie - Analoge und digitale Bilder'', (Köln (DE), DuMont Buchverlag, 1994) * Andrej Tišma, ''International Fax Art Project'' (VLV Gallery, 1995) Se
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