FAX
Matt Sheridan Smith, Untitled (contrast test), 2008
Amanda Ross-Ho, The Cat Will Not Stop Jumping on the Desk, 2009
Yony Waite, Untitled, 2011 (new submission from South Dakota)
Installation view at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Installation view at Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Curated by
João Ribas
FAX is an evolving exhibition that started in New York in 2009, and continues to be reconfigured, expanded, and localized as it is presented—often simultaneously—in venues worldwide. FAX invites artists, architects, designers, scientists, and filmmakers to think of the fax machine as a drawing tool, resulting in an exhibition concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, and mediation. Through the infinitely reproducible, yet erratic outcomes of producing works via the fax machine, this show displaces traditional notions of the hand that are still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and instead foregrounds drawing as a generative process.
The first iteration of the exhibition featured a core of works by nearly 100 artists, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. With every new incarnation, the hosting institutions are encouraged to invite additional artists to submit works, which are then permanently added to the show. New participants submit faxes throughout the duration of the presentation using a specially designed cover sheet by Dexter Sinister. Visitors view the collection of faxes on the walls or flip through archival binders to see over 500 pages of works.
The first iteration of the exhibition featured a core of works by nearly 100 artists, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. With every new incarnation, the hosting institutions are encouraged to invite additional artists to submit works, which are then permanently added to the show. New participants submit faxes throughout the duration of the presentation using a specially designed cover sheet by Dexter Sinister. Visitors view the collection of faxes on the walls or flip through archival binders to see over 500 pages of works.
Exhibition Updates
- FAX at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery makes Top 10 Outstanding Bay Area Art Experiences List January 8, 2013 Read more »
- Images from FAX at South London Gallery October 4, 2011 Read more »
- FAX at South London Gallery September 21, 2011 Read more »
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Exhibition Related ER: FAX Gallery Talk with João Ribas at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center March 9, 2011 @ The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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Curator
João Ribas
João Ribas is curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and a widely published critic. He was previously curator at The Drawing Center in New York, and is the winner of three consecutive AICA Awards for Best Exhibition (2008/2009/2010) and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010). He has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogs and monographs, and has been a visiting lecturer for institutions and organizations worldwide. He was previously adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Artists
Julieta Aranda, John Armleder, Roy Ascott, Tauba Auerbach, Fia Backstrom, Darren Bader, Cecil Balmond, BANK, Colby Bird, Pierre Bismuth, Barbara Bloom, Mel Bochner, Tobias Buche, Ian Burns, Cabinet Magazine, Etienne Chambaud, Cleopatra’s, Peter Coffin, Jan De Cock, Collage CenterWest, Liz Deschenes, Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen, Morgan Fisher, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Aurelien Froment, Ryan Gander, Wineke Gartz, Liam Gillick, Marisa Gonzalez, Dan Graham, Joseph Grigely, Joao Maria Gusmao, Pedro Paiva, Wade Guyton, Skuta Helgason, Charline von Heyl, Matthew Higgs, Eduardo Kac, Matt Keegan, Zoe Keramea, Tom Klinkowstein, Germaine Kruip, Glenn Ligon, Ronald L. Mallett, Jackson Mac Low, Corey McCorkle, Josephine Meckseper, Eric Mitchell, Simon Dybbroe Moller, Olivier Mosset, Warren Neidich, Kambui Olujimi, Serge Onnen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mai-Thu Perret, Michalis Pichler, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Blake Rayne, Tobias Rehberger, Kay Rosen, Amanda Ross-Ho, Pamela Rosenkranz, Arnd Seibert, Matt Sheridan Smith, Sonia Sheridan, Alexandre Singh, Dexter Sinister, Josh Smith, Anne Tardos, Cheyney Thompson, Christian Tomaszewski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Edward Tufte, Stan VanDerBeek, Olav Westphalen, Christopher Williams, Jack Whitten, Johannes Wohnseifer, Cerith Wyn EvansTouring Schedule
- Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Stony Brook, New York March 1, 2013 - April 30, 2013
- San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery San Francisco, California May 4, 2012 - July 22, 2012
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Salt Lake City, Utah March 2, 2012 - June 23, 2012
- University of Hawaii Art Gallery Honolulu, Hawaii February 26, 2012 - April 15, 2012
- DeVos Art Museum Marquette, Michigan January 13, 2012 - February 24, 2012
- South London Gallery London, UK September 22, 2011 - November 27, 2011
- Knoxville Museum of Art Knoxville, Tennessee August 26, 2011 - November 6, 2011
- St Paul St Gallery Auckland, New Zealand April 8, 2011 - April 30, 2011
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Cambridge, Massachusetts March 7, 2011 - April 10, 2011
- Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota February 15, 2011 - April 3, 2011
- New Galerie Paris, France November 6, 2010 - December 18, 2010
- Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland Cortland, New York October 7, 2010 - December 10, 2010
- Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Mexico City, Mexico March 24, 2010 - June 20, 2010
- Burnaby Art Gallery Burnaby, Canada March 16, 2010 - May 23, 2010
- Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong February 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
- Torrance Art Museum Torrance, California January 14, 2010 - February 20, 2010
- Plug In ICA Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada December 12, 2009 - February 21, 2010
- Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Maryland September 12, 2009 - December 20, 2009
- The Drawing Center New York, New York April 17, 2009 - July 23, 2009
Booking Info
Number of artists or artist groups: 100+
Number of works: 100+
Space required: 100-5,000 square feet
Available dates: now through August 2012
For additional information, contact Frances Wu Giarratano, Exhibitions Manager, at 212.254.8200 x 129, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).