Fax art 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. "Fax art was another means of mediating distances", according to art historians Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark. Fax art was first "faxed" 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. This was a Fax-Art project, initiated by the conceptual artist Ueli Fuchser, in which
Elton Fax by Fax included such titles as "West African Vignettes" (1960),"Contemporary Black Leaders" (1970), "Seventeen Black Artists" (1972), "Garvey" (1972, a biography of Marcus Garvey), "Through Black Eyes: Journeys of a Black Artist to East Africa and Russia" (1974), "Black Artists of the New Generation" (1977), and "Hashar" (1980). In addition, Fax illustrated books by children's authors such as Georgene Faulkner and Verna Aardema, and created dust jacket art for various publishers, as well as a literacy pamphlet for the Pan American Union. Fax toured Latin America in 1955, and was a lecturer in East Africa in 1963, both times sponsored