Fax art is

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

specifically designed to be sent or transmitted by a

facsimile machine Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer o ...

, 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 art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

together with

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...

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

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

(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 Cold War in the 1980s.Andre Chahil
''Wien 1985: Phänomen Fax-Art. Beuys, Warhol und Higashiyama setzen dem Kalten Krieg ein Zeichen.''
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art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

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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All accessed October 7, 2010.

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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